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Hosiery- manufacturing Beginners, 7s. per week, rising at sixmonthly intervals for three years to 20s. per week Adult minimum wage, lOJd. per hour. Hours of labour, 8 per day. Same rate o< wages as Canterbury Manure-manufacturing Adult minimum wage, lOJd. per hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week Miteh-minufacti-ring Msat freezing and preserving (See Wax-veetas manufacturing). Paper-milKna Poverty Bay Works : Slaughtermen for s'aeep and lambs for freezing, 20s. per 100; others, 12s. 6d. to 16s. 8d. per 100; rams, 25s. per 100; bullocks, 2s. each ; pigs, Is. each ; other hands, 7s. to 8s. per day ; boys, 14 to 21 years, 12s. 6d. to 35s. per week. Hours of labour, 8 per day Riverhead Mill — Machine-men, la. per hour ; beater-men, Is. per hour; firemen, cuttermen, and finishers, 10 1. per hour; others, 9d. per hour. Hours of labour, 52 per week I Slaughtermen —Sheep and lambs for freezing, 20s. per 100; bullocks, 2s. each ; pigs, 9d. each ; slaughtermen's assistants, lOJd. per hour; freezers, Is. per hour ; casual labourers, Is. Id. per hour. Hours of labour, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Prmntr-rs and gaefittern First-class journeyman, Is. 2d. per hour ; other journeymen, Is. per hour ; apprentices, six years, 5s. to 20s. per •veek. Hours of labour, 47 per week Competent workmen, Is. 4d. per hour ; improvers, lid. to Is. 3d. per hour. Hours of labour, 40 per week Journeymen, 10s. and 9s. per day of eight hours ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. South Canterbury award —Journeymen, Is. 3d. and Is. ljd. per hour; sheet-metal workers, 48s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week Lithographic machinists, 50s. per week of 48 hours ; compositors, Is. 6d. to Is. 7Jd. per hour on piecework; jobbing or weekly stab hands, £3 per week, or piecework; apprentices, six years, 5s. to 30s. per week; operators on type-setting machines, 66s. to 72s. per week, or Is. 7d. to Is. 9d. per hour ; Saturday night editions, 2s. 6d. per hour; probationers, 50s. to 66s. per week, or Is. 6d. to Is. 9d. per hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week. [Note. —See also Cardboard-box makers] Machine-men, 48s. per week; machinemen's assistants 33s., per week; beatermen, 48s. per week; beatermen's assistants, 36s. per week; firemen, 48s. per week; chopperman, 40s. per week; cutterman, 40s. per week; bag-room foreman, 48s. per week; finishers, 42s. per week; others, 17s. 6d. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Journeymen, Is. 3d. and Is. per hour; apprentices, six years, 5s. to 25s. per week, iiHours of labour, 44 per week. Printing and bookbinding. . Linotype 'and other machine operators, day 66s., night 72s., or Is. 7d. and Is. 9d- per hour ; the day's work to consist of not more than 7 hours. Case Hands and bulk-hands: Day hands 60?., night hands 66s., per week of 48 hours; letterpress-ma-chinists, 55s. per week of 48 hours ; apprentices, six years, 7s. 6dL to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 ]>er week Linotype and other machine operators : day 66s., night. 72s., per week, the day's work to consist of not more than 7 hours ; compositors, day 60s., night 66s., per week of 48 hours; apprentices, four years, 10s. to 30s. per week ; lithographic machinists, 60s. per week; letterpress-machinists, 50s. per week ; apprentices, six 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; apprentices, six years, 12s. 6d. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week I Type-setting machine operators, day Bos., night 72s., per week, or Is. Id. and Is9d. per hour; probationers, day work 50s., night-work 56s., per week; apprentices, six years, 12s. 6d. to 35s. per week. Day's work to consist of not more than 7 hours. Lithographicmachinists, 60s. per week of 48 hours. Raagt and oookina - stove ma lufintnrinj! Range-fitters, polishers, and youths, first year, 5s. to 7s. 6d., to sixth year, 30s. per week ; seventh year, 7s. per day ; eighth year, 8s. 6d. per day; ninth year, 9s. per day; body-fitters and grinders, 7s. 6d. per day; sheet-iron workers, 8s. per day. Hours of labour, 48 per week Range-fitters and polishers, 9s. per day; body-fittera and machinists, 8s. per day; boys, first year, 7s. Cd. per week, to fifth year 30a. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week.