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■il.V] ing — conl ttnut stokers, 7s. 6d. per daj'; blacksmiths, | in country miUs only, 10s. per day ; blacksmith strikers, in country miUs only (if an adult), 8s. per day ; head mill carpenters, 10s. per day ; second mill carpenters, 9s. per day; first ordermen, 8s. per day ; assistant ordermen, 7s. 6d. per day; machinemen who make and keep their own irons, 9s. 6d. per day ; machinemen who set up machine, 7s. 6d. per day ; dressedtimber sorters, 7s. 6d. per day ; nightwatchman (maximum hours to be worked, 63 per week), 6s. 6d. per day; holiday and Sunday watchmen (if not employed as ordinary night-watchmen), 9J hours per day, 7s. 6d. ; assistant engineers (turners and fitters), 9s. 6d. per day; tallymen, 10s. per day. Hours of labour, 47 per week Shipwrights, Is. 4d. per hour; boatbuilders, Is. 3d. per hour; repair work, Is. 4Jd. per hour; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. First-class boilermakers, Is. 4Jd. per hour; ordinarj' boilermakers, Is. 3d. per hour; boilermakers' assistants, Is. IJd. per hour; apprentices, six years, 8s. to 36s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week Shipbuilding, boilermaking, iron-bridge building First-class boilermakers, Is. 4Jd. per hour; ordinary boflermakers, Is. 3d. per hour. Hours of labour, 45J per week First-class boilermakers, Is. 4Jd. per hour; ordinary boUermakers, Is. 3d. per hour ; other workers, Is. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 8s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week First-class boilermakers, Is. 4Jd. per hour ; ordinary boilermakers, Is. 3d. per hour ; riveting, caulking, punching, plating, and repairing, Is. 3d. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 8s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Slaughtering Auckland (for export). —Same as Poverty Bay under " Meat-freezing." Auckland (for local consumption). —Sheep and lambs, 23s. to 25s. per 100 ; rams, 5d. per head ; buUocks, 2s. each ; pigs, Is. to Is. 6d. each ; calves, Is. to Is. 6d. each ; gutmen, 45s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week Same as Meat-freezing Slaughtermen's assistants, Is. Id. per hour; boys and youths, 12s. to 21s. per week, according to age. Hours of labour, 8 per day. Slaughtermen (Christchurch abattoirs). — Rate of wages, 70s. per week; casual slaughtermen to be paid at the rate of 15s. per day of eight hours, or 80s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week Burnside slaughtermen —same as Meatfreezing (for export) Soap-boiUng See Fellmongers, &c. Stone crushing and quarrying Workers engaged getting out stone roughly squared to measurement, Is. 3d. per hour; powdermen, hammer and drill men, and jumpermen, Is. Id. per hour; other quarryworkers, Is. per hour; youths, 17 to 19 years, 15s. to 24s. per week ; 20 years, 5s. per day, or 30s. per week; 21 years, 6s. per daj' or 36s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week Workers employed in getting out pitchers, building-stone, kerbstone, and pavingstone ready for masons, Is. 3d. per hour; hammer and driU men, jumpermen, and workers using explosives, Is. Id. per hour; other workers, Is. per hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week.