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

Tnda or OcoupiNon. Northirn Industrie District. Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial District. Otago and Southland Industrial District. Kngineering — continued. Is. 4£d. per hour, except machine moulders, Is. 3d. per hoar; improvers, lid. to Is. 3d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. In Ohinemuri Gold-mines. —Competent tradesmen, 11s. per day; youths (five years' service), 4s. to 8s. per day. Hours of labour, 4o per week. Wool-classers (greasy), Is. 3d. per hour ; pullers, curers, pelt - fleshers, skinclassers, scudders, and painters, Is. Id. per hour; head tanner, Is. 2d. per hour; head rollerman, Is. ljd. per hour ; chrome-workers, grainers, and machine shavers, Is. 2d. per hour; soap, starch, candle, and oil workers, Is. per hour (if worked not less than six months at trade); nightwatehman, 50s. per week of seven shifts of 1 1 hours each ; general labourers and casual hands, Is. per hour; youths —12s. 6d. to 20s. per week up to 18 years of age, over 18 years and up to 21 years of age 7Jd. to 9d. per hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Beamsmen — Journeymen, Is. 3d. per hour; improvers, Is. per hour, for two years ; apprentices, three years, 20s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Gisbonie. —Boners, graders, pelt-classers. chamber hands, fitters, moulders, and blacksmiths, Is. 4Jd. per hour; trimmers, blood and manure hands, painters, tlcshers, scudders, wool-driers, dollymen, wool - scourers, and woolwringers, tinsmiths, coopers, limeburners, and tallymen on chute, Is. 3d.; general cooling-floor hands, gut-house hands, and truckmen, paunch-cutters, hide-washers, beef slaughtermen's assistants, wool - pressers, and general floor hands, skin-truckers, piece or pie men, and preserving-department workers (other than tinsmith), Is. ljd. per hour ; greasers and firemen, 10s. per shift. Boys and youths — 15 and rive years. Hours of labour, 47 ]kt Fitters, &c, and Union Steamship Coinweek, panv, same conditions as Northern District. Fellmongering, tanning, and freezing-works employees « Pullers, ltd. to IOd. per dozen : learners, tid. to 7d. per dozen : Manawatu Freezing- works employees (Long burn) — Rates respectively : Pullers, (id. to 7d. per dozen; woolwashers, Is. per hour; painters, l>. per hour; trimmers, lljd. per hour; dollymen. Is. to Is. ljd. per hour; skin-truckers, lojd. per hour; piepickers. 7s. per day; green hands, 10£d. per hour ; wool-driers, Is. per hour ; wool-wringers. 1 s. \>er hour ; ; pelt-washers, lljd. to Is. per 100; wool-pressing, Iβ. per bale; fleshing, 2Jd. per dozen ; scudders, Is. per hour : pelt-curers. Is. per hour : trotlyman, Is. per hour : benehman, 10'd. per hour ; kidney-boy — if man 7s. per day. if boy 12s. 6d. to 35s. per week (from 14 i to 21 years of age); paunch-cutter, lljd. per hour; foreman, Is. per hour ; wheels, 10£d. per hour ; skins - examiner, Is. per hour; cooling-room, lOJd. per hour ; grader, Is. per hour ; freezing-chamber hands, Is. 3d. per i hour; loading-out, Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. ; per hour; firemen, 56s. per week; j greaser, 56s. per week of 50 hours ; bone-mill, 11 jd. per hour; tallowshed, lOJd. ; offal - trolly, Is. per [ hour ; night-watchman, 50s. per week ; general hands not enumerated, lOJd. per hour ; boys and youths, from 12s. to 35s. per week according to age. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Wellington. —Slaughterhouse assistants — Boners, Is. 4£d. per hour. Fellmongery — skin-washers Is. 4$d. per hour, and piecework from Is. 2d. to 2s. per Wool-sorters. Is. 4Jd. per hour ; pullers, Fellmongery —Wool-sorters, pullers, peltIs. 4Jd. per hour; pelt-classers —con- elassers, pelt -fleshers. Is. 4jd. per hour tinuous employment Is. 4Jd. per hour, if continuously employed, and Is. 3d. casual employment Is. 1 Jd. per hour ; per hour if not continuously employed ; improvers. Is. Id.per hour; pelt-curers, bone-grinders, Is. 4Jd. per hour: woolIs. 41d. per hour ; painters and trim- scourers, Is. 2Jd. per hour; other mere, Iβ. Id. per hour; packers. Is. ljd. workers, Is. ljd. per hour. per hour ; machine splitters, Is. 3d. per Piecework —Wool-sorters. Is. Id. per hour ; chrome tanners, Is. 4Jd. per cwt. for crossbred, Is. 3d. per ewt. hour; chrome grainen and strikers. for merino; pullers, 7d. per dozen for Is. 2d. per hour ; shaving-machine ordinary skins, Sd. per dozen for hands on chrome and sheepskins, Is. 2d. potters' skins. per hour; hide unhaircrs and scudders, Tannery — Beameman, hide-fleshing, male. Ofd. per hour; rollers of crop, chine fleshing, sole-leather work. scadIs. I jd. per hour; rollers of split, ding, baiting, pelt-curinfi. pelt-classing, Is. 0|d. per hour; all others in fell- and lanyard work, Is. 3d. |kt hour: mongerv department, bom Is. to curriers, machine shavers, machine Iβ. Ojd. per hour ; soap- workers, Is. per whiteners, machine splitters, chromehour : machine fleshers. scudders. and workers, roan finishers, and all leatherhand fleshers. Is. Id. per hour; hide work from tanyard and drums. Is. 4d. beamsmen and hide-rleshers, Is. 2d. per per hour ; other workers. Is. lid. per hour; other hands, lOJd. per hour: hour; youths. 15 to 18 years, I5e. to apprentices, three years, 20s. to 30s. 21s. per week ; 18 to 21 years. 9d. per per week ; youths — 14 to 18 years hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week. 12s. to 21s. per week, 18 to 21 years Piecework — Curriers, setting and rounding 9d. per hour; all over 21 years, not kip, ltd. per hide ; setting and rounding less than Is. per hour. Hours of labour: split, Is. (id. per dozen; finishing kip, Fellmongerv department — winter 8. Iβ. ed. per hide ; finishing splits whole. summer !l per day : soap-workers, 48 7s. ]ier dozen ; finishing butt splits, per week. [Note. —See also Curriers.] ">s. per dozen. 9