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Table 5.—Schedule of the Rates of Wages and the Hours of Labour in the four chief Industrial Districts, fixed by Industrial Agreements and by Awards of the Court of Arbitration, in Force on the 31st March, 1907.

Trades. Northern Industrial District. Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial District. Otago and Southland Industrial District i Aerated - water and cordial manufacturing Cordial- makers and foremen, 60s. ; machine bottlers, 50s.; beer-bottlers, 45s.; bottle-washers, 32s. 6d. ; boys, 10s. to 20s. per week of 49 hours ; casuals, Is. per hour Bacon-curing .. .. Basketware v rattan, and wickerwork manufacturing Blacksmiths and farriers .. See Butchers small-goods manufacturing. Minimum wage, Is. Id. per hour; apprentices, four years, 5s. to 20s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Farriers and general smiths, 10s. per day ; floormen, 8s. 6d. per day; apprentices, six years, 7s. 6d. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour, 46 per week. Boat-building Shipwrights, Is. 3d. per hour; boatbuilders, Is. 2d. per hour ; dirty work, Is. per day extra; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Hours of work, 47 per week. Fam'ers and general smiths, 10s. per day ; floormen, 8s. per day; apprentices, five years, 7s. 6d. to 37s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Bookbinders Journeymen, 60s. per week or Is. 4|d. per hour for casual labour; apprentices, six years, 12s. 6d. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Canterbury award also applies to this distriot Journeymen, minimum wage, Is. per hour ; apprentices, clickers, five years, minimum wage to boys of 18 years, 15s. per week with annual increase of 5s. per week; upon attainment of 21 years, journeymen's wages. Hours of labour, 45 per week See Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing. See Cardboard-box making Bootmaking Canterbury award also applies to this district Canterbury^." award also applies to this district. Bottling M See Cardboard-box making. Box-making Brass founding and finishing Bread and small-goods manufacturing See Engineering. Foremen, 60s. per week; second hands, 50s. per week; other hands, 45s. per week; apprentices, four years, 5s. to 15s. per week and found, or 7s. 6d. per week extra in lieu of board and lodging; jobbers, 10s. per day. Hours of labour, 9J per day, including halfhour for breakfast and time required for sponging Foremen, 60s. per week; second hands, 50s. per week; table hands, 45s. per week ; apprentices, four years, 12s. 6d. to 30s. per week; jobbers, 10s per day of 8 hours. Hours of labour. 51 per week Foremen, 60s. per week; second hands, 50s. per week ; table hands, 45s. per week ; apprentices, four years, rate of wages prescribed by Court upon application by any party to the award ; jobbers, 10s. per day. Hours of labour 51 per week Foremen, 60s. per week ; second* hands, 50s. per week; table hands, 45s. per week; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 32s. 6o_ per week; jobbers, 10s. per day of 8J hours. Hours of labour, 51 per week. Brewing, malting, ftc Brewery men, 45s. per week; brewery night-men, 47s. 6d. per week ; bottlinghouse men, 45s. per week; coopers, 55s. per week; maltsters' workmen, 43s. ljd. per week ; maltsters' nightmen, 45s. 7_d. per week; bottlinghouse boys, 14 years to 21 years of age, 8s. to 28s. per week ; casual labour. Is. per hour Hours of labour, 45 per week. M I