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(ii) Establishments for the treatment or care particularly of the aged, infirm, sick, destitute, or mentally unfit; (iii) Hotels, restaurants, boardinghouses, clubs, cafes, and other refreshment-houses; '(iv) Theatres and places of public amusement; and (v) Any establishment similar in character to those enumerated in subparagraphs (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) above; (c) The term " industrial undertaking 77 includes — (i) Undertakings in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished, or in which materials are transformed, including undertakings engaged in shipbuilding, in ■ the generation, _ transformation, or transmission of electricity, in the production or distribution of gas or motive power of any kind, in the purification or distribution of water, or in heating; (ii) Undertakings engaged in the construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, alteration, or demolition of any one or more of the following: buildings, railways, tramways, airports, harbours, docks, piers, works of protection against floods or coast erosion,, canals, works for the purpose of inland, maritime, or aerial navigation, roads, tunnels, bridges, viaducts, sewers, drains, wells, irrigation or drainage works, telecommunication installations, works for the production or distribution of electricity or gas, pipe-lines, waterworks, and undertakings engaged in other similar works or in the preparation for or laying the foundations of any such work or structure; (iii) Mines, quarries, or other works for the extraction of minerals from the earth; and (iv) Undertakings engaged in the transport of passengers or goods, excluding transport by hand, unless such undertakings are regarded as parts of the operation of an agricultural or commercial undertaking; (d) The terms ''agricultural undertaking/' "commercial undertaking," and " industrial undertaking " include both public and private undertakings. Article 26 The competent authority may, by public regulations published beforehand, exclude from the application of the provisions of the present Annex undertakings or vessels in respect of which, from their nature and size,, adequate supervision may be impracticable. 2. REPORT OF MR. V. DUFF, NEW ZEALAND EMPLOYERS' DELEGATE The Honourable the Acting Minister of Labour, Wellington. Dear Sir, — Be INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE, 1945 I have the honour to submit herewith my report on the Twentyseventh Session of the International Labour Conference, which was held in Paris in October, 1945, and which I attended as the representative of the employers of New Zealand. The Conference was opened at 11 a.m. on Monday, the 15th October, 1945, by the Chairman of the Governing Body, Mr. Carter Goodrich, and came to a close at 7 p.m. on Monday, the sth November, 1945.

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