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Table 5.—Schedule of the Rates of Wages and the Hours of Labour, &c.—continued.

Trades. Northern* Industrial District. Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial District. Otago and Southland Industrial District. Stonemasonry Journeymen, Is. 6d. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week Journeymen, Is. 8d. per hour ; apprentices, five j r ears, 10s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week Be Buildings —Journeymen, Is. 6d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 9s. to 35s. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. Be Monumental Masons — Journeymen stonemasons and marble - cutters, Is. 6d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 7s. 6d. to 27s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week Journeymen, 55s. per week; pieceworkers as per log ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Factory hands, same as Northern District Tailoring —Tailors Journeymen, including pressers (pieceworkers as per log), 50s. per week; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Factory hands — Second - class chart cutters, 60s. per week; stock cutter and trimmer, 55s. per week ; examiner in charge of finishing-room, 52s. 6d. per week ; apprentices to stock cutting and trimming, five years, 10s. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week Shop hands —Timework, 8d. per hour ; coat hands, 25s. and 30s. per week ; vest and trouser hands, 25s. to 30s. per week; machinists, 17s. 6d. to 30s. per week ; apprentices, four years, 5s. to 20s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. Factory hands, same as Wellington Journeymen taUors and pressers (other than pieceworkers), 55s. per week; piecework, as per log; apprentices (male), five years, 5s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Factory hands, same as Northern District Journeymen, 55s. per week ; pieceworkers, as per log ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Factory hands, same as Northern District. Tailoring —-Tailoresses Factory hands —Journeywomen, 25s. per week ; improvers, 15s. to 22s. 6d. per week; pressers, 55s. per week; apprentices, two years, 5s. to I2s. 6d. per week; pressers' apprentices, two years, 20s. to 30s. per week. Hours of work, 45 per week. Ladies' Apparel —Journeywomen, 22s. 6d. to 25s. per week; apprentices and improvers (two years each), 5s. to 12s. 6d. and 15s. 6d. to 30s. per week. Shop hands — First-class coat, trouser, and vest hands, 30s. per week; secondclass coat hands, 27s. 6d. per week; second-class vest and trouser hands, 25s. per week; third-class coat hands, 25s. to 26s. per week for first year after apprenticeship; third-class vest and trouser hands, 21s. to 23s. per week for first eighteen months after apprenticeship; first-class machinists, 30s. per week; second-class machinists, 25s. per week; apprentices (coatmaking), three years, 5s. to 25s. per week; apprentices (vest and trouser making), two years, 5s. to 17s. 6d. per week Factory hands, same as WeUington District. Shop hands — Machinists, trousers and vest hands, 25s. per week ; coat hands, 30s. per week ; apprentices, four years, 5s. to 20s. per week ; pieceworkers, as per log. Hours of labour, 45 per week Factory hands, same as in Wellington District. Shop hands — Journeywomen, 27s. 6d. per week ; improvers, 17s. 6d. per week ; apprentices, four years, 5s. to 17s. 6d. per week; pieceworkers' wages as per log. Hours of labour, 45 per week. y i