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

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Trade or Occupation. Northern Industrial District. Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial District. Otago and Southland Industrial District. Fellmongering, tfce. — contd. Wanganui. — Boners, skin - washers, painters, limers, fleshers, and cha.mbermen, Is. 4Jd. per hour; scudders and pelt-classers, 1 s. 4d. ; wool-pressers, trimmers, and other hands not specified, 1 s. 3d. ; leading hand in hidehouse, Is. 4Jd. ; manure hands, tallow hands, other hide-house workers, general hands, in preserving department, and general labourers. Is. 3d.; pullers, 9d. per dozen skins ; firemen, 10s. per day; boys and youths, up to 15 years of age 12s. 6d. per week, 16 years to 19 and over 18s. to 40s. per wqek. Hours of labour, 8 per day Fish-curing Fish-curers, 45s. per week. Hours of labour, 50 per week • • $ Flax-milling Feeders, 1 s. 3d. per hour ; bench-loaders, Is. Id.; washers, Is. Id.; head paddockers, Is. IJd. ; catchers, assistant paddockers, sorters, and shakers, 1 s. ; rouseabouts, 10Jd. ; drivers, 46s. per week ; stripper - keepers, 2s. 6d. per day in addition to ordinary wages ; scutchers, 26s. per ton; labour nototherwise specified, Is. per hour: youths, 15s. to 35s. per week according to age. Hours of work, 48 per week. Rollerman or shift - miller, Is. 2d. per hour; oatmeal and barley miller, Is. 2d. per hour; purifier, Is. Id. per hour; smutterman, Is. Id. per hour; assistant smutterman, Is. per hour; kilnman, 1 s. per hour ; head storeman, Is. IJd. per hour; assistant storeman, Is. per hour; packerman, Is. per hour; engine-drivers, Is. to Is. 3d. per hour; boys, 5 years, 10s. to 36s. per week ; casual labour and grain-carriers in store, Is. per hour. Hours of labour, 8 per day Wanganui. —Leading stoker, 10s. 6d. per Stokers, 9s. 3d. per shift of 8 hours, shift of 8 hours; ordinary stoker, 10s. per shift of 8 hours Rollerman or shift-miller, oatmeal and barlej- millers, Is. Id. per hour; purifier, 10Jd. per hour; smutterman, Is. per hour; assistant smutterman, lid. per hour; kilnman, lid. per hour; storeman, Is. IJd. per hour; assistant storeman, lOJd. per hour; packermen, lOJd. per hour; engineer, Is. 2d. per hour ; engine-drivers, 1 s. per hour ; boys, 10s. to 36s. per week; bagprinting foreman Is. per hour, others 10Jd. ; casual labour in store, Is. per hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Flour-milling Flour-milling .. Rollerman or shift-miller, oatmeal and barley millers, Is. 2d. per hour; purifier, Is. Id. per hour; smutterman, Is. Id. per hour ; assistant smutterman, Is. per hour; kilnman, Is. per hour; storeman, Is. IJd. per hour ; assistant storeman, Is. per hour; packermen, Is. per hour; engineer, Is. 2d. per houi-; engine-drivers, Is. to Is. 3d. per hour ; boys, 10s. to 36s. per week; casual labour in store, Is. per hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week Gas and coke manuf act: ringGas and coke manuf act" .ring