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Soap-boiling .. .. &c. Soft-goods trade employees (retail) Wellington City. — Assistants, 16 years of age and under, first year of service. males 10s., females 7s. 6d. per week ; second year of service, males 15s., females 10s. per week ; third year of service, males 20s., females 12s. 6d. per week; fourth year of service, males 25s., females 15s. per week; fifth year of service, males 30s., females 20s. per week ; sixth year of service, males 37s. b'd., females 22s. 6d. per week ; seventh year of service, males 55s., females 27s. 6d. per week ; storemen, packers, and porters, 17 years of age and under, 10s. per week ; over 17, up to 21, 30s. ; porters, over 21, 45s. per week ; storemen and packers, over 21, 50s. per week. Hours of labour, as fixed by Shops and Offices Act. Wanganui. —Same as Wellington City. Same as Wellington City .. Dunedin City. —Same M Wellington City. ■I » Stone quarrying Workers engaged getting out stone roughly squared to measurement, Is. 3d. per hour; powdermen, hammer and drill men, and jumpermen, Is. Id. per hour; other quarr}' workers, Is. per hour; youths, 17 to 19 years, 15s. to 24s. per week ; 20 years, 5s. per day or 30s. per week ; 21 years, 6s. per day or 36s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Be Buildings —Journeymen, Is. 6d. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 9s. to 35s. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. Be Monumental masons — Journeymen stonemasons and marble - cutters, Is. 6d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 7s. 6d. to 27s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. Journeymen, 55s. per week; pieceworkers as per log ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. c Workers employed in getting out pitchers, t, building-stone, kerbstone, and pavingi- stone ready for masons, Is. 3d. pel i, hour; hammer and drill men, jumpery men, and workers using explosives, o Is. Id. per hour; other workers, Is, 0 per hour. Hours of labour, 48 pel ; week. • Stonemasonrj' .. .. ls.^7d. r per hour; piecework, ut per foot — 6 in. kerbs Is. 3d., 8 in. Is. 6d., 10 in. Is. 9d., 12 in. 2s.; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week.] Journeymen, Is. 8d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. ir Journeymen, Is. 7£d. per hour; appreno tices, five years, 9s. to 35s. per week. 4 Hours_of labour, 44 per week. n 9, Tailoring —Tailors .. Journeymen, including pressers (pieceworkers as per log), 50s. per week ; apprentices, five years, ~>s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Factory hands — Second - class chart cutters, 60s. per week; stock cutter and trimmer, 55s. per week ; examine] , in charge of finishing-room, 52s. per week ; apprentices to stock cutting and trimming, five years, 10s. to 40s. per week ; machinists and pressers, 55s. per week; pressers' apprentices. two years, 20s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. Journeymen tailors and pressers (other than pieceworkers), 55s. per week; piecework, as per log; apprentices (male), five years, 5s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. as Northern District. e ;- Journeymen, 55s. per week; piece■e workers, as per log ;J£apprentice>. five )f years, 5s. to 30s. per 4 week. Hours oi labour, 48 per week. Factory hands, same as Northern District. i- same as Northern District.