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Tailoring —Tattoresses — ctd. Hawke's Bay. —Coat hands, 30s. per week ; trouser, vest, and skirt hands, 27s. 6d. per week; first - class machinists, 30s. per week ; second-class machinists, 25s. per week; coatmaking apprentices, four years, 5s. to 27s. 6d. per week; trouser, vest, and skirt apprentices, three years, 5s. to 22s. per week; apprentices to machining, same as trouser, &c, apprentices. Hours of labour, 45 per week Tanning Tinsmithing and coppersmithing (see also Canisterworkers) See Fellmongering .. .. .. Journej'men, 10s. per day of 8J hours; Journeymen coppersmiths, sheet-metal general hands, 8s. 6d. per day; ap- workers, tinsmiths, and galvanizers, prentices, five years, 7s. 6d. to 30s. Is. 4d. per hour; improvers (one year per week. Hours of labour, 47 per after apprenticeship), 42s. per week; week apprentices, 7s. 6d. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week See Fellmongering North Canterbury. —-Same as Wellington. South Canterbury. — Journeymen sheetmetal workers, Is. 2|d. per hour. Hours of labour, 44 per week Journeymen, Is. 4d. per hour ; apprentices, six years, 7s. 6d. to 30s. pei week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Waterproof-clothing manufacturing Wax-vestas manufacturing Piecework —Plains, 3d. per gross of boxes; No. 4 tins, Is. per gross; No. 10 tins, 2s. per gross; No. 12 cardboard, 6d. per gross; fining frames on machine, 3Jd. per rack of 16 frames, average of 68 boards to the frame. Hours of labour, 45 per week See Tailoresses Woollen-milling Minimum rate for wages hands —Woolsorters, 50s. ; wool - scourers, dyehouse, teasing, carding hands, 42s. ; spinners, 44s. ; feeders and piecers, 16 to 22 years, 25s. to 42s.; miU-ing-room, finishing - room, press and stock room hands, 42s. ; tuners, 45s. to 56s.; warpers, 56s. ; patternweavers, 45s. ; labourers, 42s. ; enginedrivers, 54s.; firemen, 48s.; greasers, 42s. ; carpenters, 60s. ; girls, first year 8s., second year lis., third year 14s. ; youths, 14 to 22 years of age, 8s. to 35s. : all at per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week