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Average Earnings: Return C— Return Showing Average Total Earnings, Profit Distributions, Ordinary and Overtime Hours, Weeks, and Holidays Worked by Unionists With Highest Earnings for Year Ended 31st March, 1950

Number of Men. Port. A verage Total Earnings (Including Average Total Hours "Worked for Year. j Average I Number of Weeks Average Hours Worked Per Week. Average Number of Days Worked or Available for Work, Including Average Total of Profit Profit Distribution). Ordinary. Overtime. Total. % Worked. Ordinary. Overtime. Total. Paid Holidays (Maximum 312). Distribution. 100 100 50 50 50 50 50 25 50 50 50 25 50 25 50 50 50 Auckland Wellington* Lyttelton Dunedin Port Chalmers Gisborne Napier .. Onehunga New Plymouth Wanganui Nelson Picton Timaru Oamaru Bluff .. Westport Greymouth £ S. d. 679 8 7 704 6 9 695 2 7 686 2 10 616 13 5 429 13 3 645 18 9 527 1 7 709 1 8 556 9 9 603 7 11 524 6 6 627 19 8 375 8 8 628 9 11 517 18 1 504 5 2 1,933* 1,894 1,879 . 1,862f 1,722* 1,362* 1,687 1,754f 1,767* 1.550* 1,827* 1,353 J 1,6554 1,334 1,747* 1,135* 1,244* 720* 717 755f 7054 633* 411* 643 563 633 509 485 608* 620 330* 591 483 579 2,654 2,611 2,634| 2,568* 2,3554 1,774 2,330 2,317f 2,400 J 2,059* 2,312* 1,961| 2,275f 1,664* 2,338* 1,618*' 1,823* 51 52 50 51 51 50 51 50 50 52 51 52 52 52 50 52 52 38 36* 37* 36* 33f 27* 33 35 35* 29f 35| 26 31f 25| 35 214 24 141 134 15* 14 12* 8* 12* iii 124 94 9* 114 12 6* HI 9* Hi ■ 52* 50* 50* 46* 35* 45* 46* 48 39* 45* 374 434 32 464 31 35* 296 300 305 309 308 303 305 303 304 305 291 304 310 300 307 309 306 £ s. d. "33 13 10 44 16 0 65 3 6 69 1 10 57 6 2 8 14 6 76 12 6 t 1 14 5 67 2 4 73 14 4 75 0 0 49 10 6 96 0 0 t 6 3 5 69 7 7 94 9 6 40 5 0 * Includes work performed when employed by Wellington Harbour Board. f Profit earned at Auckland. J Profit earned at Timaru.