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Jewellers (manufacturing), watch and clock makers Oisbome District. —According to number of persons employed — In kitchen: Chefs, 40s. to 90s. ; second hands. 30e. to ~)5s. ; others. 27s. 6d. to 30s. In dining-room : Head waiters, 30s. to 50s. : second hands, :(0s. to 40s. ; others, 30s. ; waitresses, 20s. Housemaids, 2()s. In pantry : First hand (male), 27s. (id. to 30s. ; others, 26e. : females. 20s. Day-porters, 27s. (id. : night-porters, 30s. ; barmen, 40s. to 46s. : barmaids, 30fc. ; billiard-markers, 30s. j laundresses. 2os*; general hands —female 2.5s., male 27s. (id. per week. Hours of labour, as fixed by Shops and " Offices Act. Tourist Arrommodation-houeet (Rotorua). —Kitchen : male cook, 40s. ; other male hands, 25s. ; female cook, 30s. ; other female hands, 20s. ; males in pantry, 20s. ; females in pantry, 16s. Porters and general hands, 20s. : waitresses and housemaids, 16s. ; laundresses, 22s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, (>•"> per week. Journeymen, 60s. per week: apprentices, six years, 7s. (id. to .'!">s. per week. Hours of labour. 40J per week. Adult minimum wage — Day-work, Is. .. Workers employed in and about manure- Adult minimum wage, Iβ. per hour. per hour; night-work, Is. OJd. per works and tallow-works, Is. 3d. per Hours of labour. 48 per week. hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week. hour; oleo-works, Is. 2d. per hour; general labourers. Is. 2d. per hour; chamber hands. Is. 4Jd. per hour; preserving department. Is. 2}d. per hour ; other hands in department. Is. 2d. per hour. Hours of labour. S per day. Manure-manufacturing -Match-manufacturing Meat freezing, slaughtering, and preserving (see also Fellmongering, &c.) See Wax-vestas manufacturing Auckland (for export). — For freezing Ngahauranga mid Petone. —For freezing Slaughtermen's assistants, Is. 21d. per Burnside Abattoirs. — Slaughtermen, 50s. shee]) and lambs, 25s. per 100 ; others, sheep and lambs. 27s. (id. per 100; hour; boys and youths. 14s. to 2~>s. to (i."is. per week: casual hands. 12s. 18s. to 20s. per 100; rams, 5d. per ranis other than ram lambs. 5d. per per week, according to age. Hours of per day or 70s. per week: boys and head; bullocks, 2s. per head; pigs, bead > lambs requiring back sets. labour, 8 per day. youths. 12s. to 36e. per week, according ■ Is. and Is. (id. per head ; calves, Is. ">d. per head ; dead sheep and lambs. Slaughtermen (Chrietchurch abattoirs).- to age. Hours of labour. 48 per week. and Is. (id. per head ; lambs requiring Is. ; dead cattle. 5s. ; cattle, 2s. ; Rate of wages. 70s. per week : casual Mnhirt ini. Mataura, and Oreiin Bench. — back sets, 6d. per head; dead sheep and pigs. '*• to Iβ. (id.; calves, Is. to slaughtermen to be paid at the rate of Sheep and lambs, 27s. (id. per 100; * This award appears to liavt visions of the award shall cease to c ment Act, 1910, was to reduce the 1 has taken effect, and therefore the the passing of the Shops and Offices ! now lapsed. Clause 14 states that it " shall continue in force until any change is made by legislation in any of the conditions fixed by the award: that on any such change being made all the proiperate, and that thereafter the conditions of employment shall be fixed by agreement between each employer and the individual workers employed by him." Tlie effect of the Shops and Offices Amendlours of work of hotel-assistants, but section 11, however, suspended its operation in regard to awards then in force. The period for whieh this award was made lias now expired, so that the alteration t provisions of clause 14 of the award would appear to have come into operation, and the other provisions ceased to operate. The awards, other than Wellington City, have come into operation since i Amendment Act, 1910, and therefore are not affected in the same way.