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

Trade or Occupation. Northern Industrial District. Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial District. Otago and Southland Industrial District. Paper-milling — co nti nued. hour; first glazer, lid. per hour; ripper and glazer assistants, 8Jd. per hour ; rippermen and cuttermen, 1 s. Ofd. per hour; first finisher, Is. Ofd. per hour; second finisher, llfd. per hour; third finisher, lOd. per hour ; baler, Is. per hour; yardmen, 1 s. per hour; night-watchmen, Is. per hour; man in charge of rag-shed, Is. per hour ; man in charge of bag-room, 65s. per week ; boy in bag-room, 20s. per week ; carters, 48s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week for shiftmen, and 45 per week for other workers. Photo-engraving Plumbers and gasfitters Head operator, 80s. per week ; journey men operators, 70s. ; head etcher, 80s. ; journeymen, 70s. ; printers, 50s. ; apprentices, six years, 10s. to 40s. per week. Auckland City. —Journeymen, Is. Sd. per Competent workmen hour : apprentices, six years, 6s. to per hour ; improve 32s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, apprentices, six yi 44 per week. per week. Hours Country and Gisborne Employers. — week Journeymen, Is. 5d. per hour; ap prentices, six years, 6s. to 32s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week Competent workmen, Is. 4d. and Is. 5d. per hour ; improvers, Is. 3d. per hour ; apprentices, six years, 7s. to 32s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour,! 45 per week S ee Saddle and harness making i, Is. 4d. and Is. 5d. ■ers, Is. 3d. per hour ; rears, 7s. to 32s. 6d. s of labour,' 45 per Competent plumbers and gasfitters, Is. 4d. per hour ; other journeymen, Is. IJd. per hour; apprentices, six years, 5s. to 32s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 8 per day. South Canterbury. —Journeymen, Is. 3d. and Is. 5d. per hcur ; apprentices, six years, 6s. to 32s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week See Saddle and harness making Dunedin. —Journeymen, Is. 3d. and Is. 5d. per hour ; apprentices, six years, 5s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. Southland. —Journeymen, Is. 4Jd. per hour; improvers, Is. IJd. per hour; apprentices, six years, 6s. to 32s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week See Saddle and harness making. Portmanteau and leathergoods making Printing See Saddle and harness making .. See Saddle and harm tess making Auckland City. —Linotype and monotype Same as Northern, operators on daily newspapers : Day lington City " for ' hands, 74s. per week; night hands, 82s. per week; all other day operators, 70s. ; night operators, 76s. Monoline operators: In towns of population of over 2,500 persons — day, 66s. ; night, 72s,: in towns with population of 2,500 persons or less —day, 60s. ; night, 66s. Simplex machine operators: In towns with population of over 2,500 persons —day, 60s. ; night, 66s. : in towns with population of 2,500 persons or less —day, 55s. ; night, 61s. Stone and bulk hands: On daily newspapers, Auckland City — day work, 65s. : night, 70s. per week : second hands, 70s. (day), and 75s. (night); casual hands, Is. 9d. per hour. Same as Northern, substituting " Wellington City " for " Auckland City " substituting " Wei- " Auckland City " Same as Northern, substituting " Christchurch " for " Auckland City " Same as Northern, substituting " Dunedin " for " Auckland City."