SKILLED TRADES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3998, 3 August 1915, Page 2

SKILLED TRADES.

AVERAGE EARNINGS OF MALE WORKERS. AN INTERESTING TABLE. The following interesting return, showing tho average earnings annually of male workers over 21 years of age, was placed before the Arbitration Court yesterday by Mr Francis Holmes, President of tho Christchurch Master Tailors’ Association :

CENSUS RETURNS 1911. AUCKLAND DISTRICT. SKILLED TRADES. No. emp. Trades. Amt. • £. <ls Electrical Engineers 144 33 Tinsmiths 140 24 Biscuit and Confectioners 137 26 Tailors, (Amoral Hands 137 68 Watchmakers and jewellers ... 136 127 Engineering fitters 134 117 Tram builders 133 20 Coachbuilders 132 64 Monumental masons 130 39 Engineering, general hands ... 128 138 Tailors, coatmakers 127 25 Sail and tent makers 127 33 Engineering plumbers 127 72 Blacksmiths 126 17 Coachbuilding, wheelwrights ... 126 95 Engineering steel metal 126 52 Engineering, moulders 125 31 Butoliors, small goods 125 22 Coachbuilding, painters 124 16 Engineering, pattern-makers ... 124 45 Engineering, blacksmiths 124 43 Flour and Oatihillers 124 21. Hope and Twine makers 123 142 Carpenters and Joiners 123 47 Sawmill joiners 122 20 Portmanteau makers 122 92 Plumbing and gasfitting 122 21 Bootmakers, cutters 122 129 Cabinetmakers ... 120 43 Coachbuilding, bodymakers 120 28 Sawmilling, engineers 120 43 Range and stovemaking 117 132 Saddle and liarnessmakers ... 116 166 Sawmilling, general hands 115 62 Sawmilling, machinists 114 52 Cabinetmaking upholsterers ... 114 20 Fibrous plasterers 114 58 Bootmaking, clickers 113 70 Bootmaking, finishers 112 204 Bootinaking, henchmen ... 11l 115 Sawrailling, sawyers ... ... 11l 20 Brush and broom 109 25 Cycle and motor engineers 108 4 Biscuit and confectioner engineers 108 24 Cabinetmaking polishers ... ... 105 27 Engineering, brassfounders ... ... 104 70 Bootmaking, general hands 103 32 Basket and wiokorworkers 98 115 Engineering, boilermaking 87 £5910 Trades. £. Average. 49 ... 5910. ... ■ £l2O 12 3