E.—ll.

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. Saddle and harness making Sail, tent, and flag manufacturing Sausage-casing making Sawmilling Journeymen, Is. Id. per hour; appren- I Journeymen, Is. Id. per hour, or at Journeymen, Is. Id. per hour; improvers, j tices, five years, 7s. 6d. to 27s. 6d. per piecework rates ; apprentices, five ! 35s. to 45s. per week ; female stitchers, week ; female stitchers, 7s. 6d. to SOs. years, 7s. 6d. to 30s. per week ; female j 7s. 6d. to 35s. per week ; apprentices, per week. Hours of labour, 48 per stitchers, 7s. 6d. to 35s. per week. . five years, 7s. 6d. to 30s. per week, week Hours of labour, 48 per week Hours of labour, 48 per week Journeymen, Is. IJd. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Whakatu Agreement. —Classers, measurer s, tank hands, and scrapers, Is. 3d. per hour; salters, Is. per hour; boys and youths, 20s. to 40s. per week according to age. Hours of labour, 44 per week. Pakipaki Agreement. —Same as Whakatu. Wellington. —Scrapers, tank hands, and measurers, Is. 3d. per hour; salters, Is. per hour ; boys, 20s. to 40s. per week, according to age. Hours of labour, 44 per week. Headman on band-mills, 9s. per day; In Factories. — Machinists, first class Christchurch District. — In sawmills and dogger and setter, 8s. per day ; assist- Is. 4d. per hour, second class Is. 2 Jd.; factories: Machinists, first Is. 4d. ant dogger and setter, 7s. 6d. per day ; sawyers, first Is. 3d., second Is. 2d. ; per hour, second Is. 2Jd. per hour, turning down at band-saw, 7s. 6d. per head yardman, 60s. per week; others, others Is. Id.; sawyers, first Is. 3d., day; head, breaking-down saw, 8s. 6d. 1 s. Id. per hour ; cooper, Is. 2d. ; box- others Is. IJd.; tailers-out, Is. per per day; tail, breaking - down saw, maker. Is. Id. ; casual labour. 1 s. 1 Jd. ; hour. 7s. 6d. per day ; head, circular saw night-watchman (charge of one mill), In timber and coal yards : Head yard(travelling), 9s. per day; tail, circular 45s. per week; engine-drivers, 8s. 6d. man, 60s. per week; others, Is. IJd. saw (travelling), 8s. per day; wedger, to 10s. per day; youths, 15s. to 35s. per hour; orderman, 52s. 6d. per week ; circular saw (travelling), 7s. 6d. per per week according to age. sawyers (in coal-yards). Is. IJd. per day; headman, band-saw edger, 8s. In Country Sawmills. —Benchmen, head hour; casual labourers, Is. IJd.; per day ; tail, band-saw edger, 7s. 6d. Is. 4d. per hour, others Is. 3d. ; youths under 17 years of age, 15s. per per day ; head, first drag-saw, 8s. per breakdownmen, first Is. 3d., second week ; 17 to 21, 20s. to 35s. per week, day; tail, first drag-saw, 7s. 6d. per Is. 2d.; tailer-out, Is. 2d.; machinists, Hours of labour, 44 per week, day; head, second drag-saw, 7s. 6d. first Is. 4d., second Is. 2d.; cross- Carters— one horse, 48s. per week: two per day; tail, second drag-saw, 7s. cutters, Is. Id. to Is. 2d.; bullock- or more horses, 52s. per week. Hours per day; headman, recutter-saws, drivers, Is. 2Jd. ; ropemen, first of labour, 48 per week. 8s. per day; tailman, recutter-saws, Is. 2d., second Is. Id.; jackmen, Ashburton. —In sawmills: First-class ma7s. 6d. per day; headman, recutter- Is. 2d.: all other labourers, Is. Id.; chinists, Is. 3d. per hour ; second-class saw, box or small splitting-saw (not casual labourers. Is. IJd.; night- machinists, Is. IJd. per hour; other an adult), 6s. 6d. per day; tailman, watchman and engine-driver, as in machinists, over 21 years of age, Is. recutter-saw, box or small splitting- factories. Hours of labour, factories per hour; first sawyer, Is. IJd. per saw (not an adult), 5s. per day ; men 46 per week, sawmills 48 per week hour ; other saw3rers, Is. per hour : in charge of two deal frames or gang tailers-out, if over 21 years of age. saw. 8s. per day ; men in charge cf one lOJd. per hour ; engine-drivers, first- I deal frame. 7s. fid. per day ; log jigger- class. 1 s. 3d. per hour ; engine-drivers, I saw, 8s. 4d. per day; log-getters, 8s. second-class, 1 s. 1 Jd. per hour ; engineJourneymen, Is: Id. per hour : apprentices, five years, 8s. to 27s. 6d. per week ; female stitchers, 7s. 6d. to 35s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Otago. —Sawyers, first Is. 4d. per hour, others Is. IJd.; tailers-out, Is. per hour; machinists, first-class Is. 4Jd. per hour, second Is. 2Jd., others 1 s. ; head yardmen, 1 s. 4 Jd. per hour ; others, Is.; orderman, Is. IJd.; casuals, Is. per hour; wood-turners, Is. 3d.; spoke - turners and spoke - finishers, Is. 1-Jd. ; butter -box makers, 7s. per day; sash and door makers, Is. 2d.; youths, 15 to 21 years, 12s. 6d. to 36s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. Southland. —Breast - bench sawyer (two saws and top saw), lis. per day; breast-bench sawyer (one saw), 10s. 6d. per day; big-bench sawyer (bottom and top saws), 10s. per day; tailerout, 9s. 6d. per day; first - class machinist, 10s. per day; second-class machinist, 9s. per day ; engine-driver, first class, 10s. per day ; engine-driver, second class, 9s. per day; haulingengine driver and other engine-drivers, 8s. 6d. per day; locomotive-drivers, 10s. per day; leading bushmen, 10s. per day ; other bushmen and shoemen, 9s. 6d. per day ; stokers and brakesmen,