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Table 5.—Schedule of the Rates of Wages and the Hours of Labour, &c.— continued.

Trades. Northern Industrial District. Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial District. Otago aud Southland Industrial District. Refreshment-room (tea-room and restaurant) employees Chefs, 35s. to 45s. ; other cooks, 20s. and 25s. per week; waiters, 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 1 1 per day Restaurants —Chefs, 45s. to 60s. ; second cooks, 25s. to 40s. ; other cooks, males 22s. 6d., females 17s. 6d. to 30s. per week; waiters, 27s. Cd. ; head waitress, 22s. 6d ; others, 17s. 6d. per week ; pantrymen, 25s. ; pantrymaids, 17s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 65 per week. Tea-rooms — Kitchen hands, females, 22s. 6d. ; head waitress, 25s. ; others, 22s. 6d. per week, and meals. Hours of labour, 52 per week. Rope and twine manufacturing Saddlery . and harness making See. Flax-milling. Sail, tent, and flag manufacturing Journeymen, minimum wage, Is. per hour; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week ; female stitchers, 7s. 6d. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week .Journeymen, Is. per hour ; appren tices, four years, 8s. to 20s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week .Journeymen, minimum wage, Is. per hour; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 20s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week .lourneymen, 48s. per week ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 20s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week Journeymen, 48s. per' week ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 20s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Journeymen," Is. perj hour ; sailmakers, Is. 3d. per hour; apprentices, four years, 7s. 6d. to 22s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Sausage-casings manufacturing Sawmilling Head men at saw-benches, 8s. 4d. to 8s. 6d.; tail-men, 7s. 6d.; head men at drag-benches, 7s. to 7s. 6d. ; tail-men, 6s. to 7s. ; head men at recutter saws, 8s.; tail-men, 7s. 6d. ; men in charge of jigger-saws, 8s. 4d. ; log-getters, 7s. ; horse-drivers, 7s. 6d.; engine-drivers, 8s. and 9s. ; head mill-carpenters, 9s. ; second, 8s. 6d. ; maehine-men, 7s. to 9s. ; engineers and fitters, 9s. ; head .men on band-mills, 8s. 6d. ; others, 6s. to 7s. 6d.: all per day of eight hours. Hours of labour, 47 per week Shipwrights, Is. 3d. per hour; boatbuilders, Is. 2d. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week Olassers and scrapers, Is. per hour; measurers, tank-hands, and salters, lid. per hour ; boys under 16 years of age, 20s. per week: 16 to 21 years, 25s. to 45s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. First sawyer, 9s: second sawyer, 8s. ; engine-drivers, 9s. and 10s. ; yardman, 10s. ; assistants, 7s. ; henchmen, 9s. and 10s. ; tailors-out, 8s. ; breakers - down, 7s. 6d. and 8s. 6d. ; planing-machine men, 8s. and 10s. ; bullock-drivers, 9s. ; pan-men in bush 8s. ; others 7s. to 7s. 6d.: _11 per day of eight hours. Hours of labour, 46 per week First sawyers, 9s. per day; second sawyers, 8s. per day; tailers-out, 7s. per day; engine-drivers, 9s. and 10s. per day; first-class machinists, 10s. per day; second class, 9s. per day; head yardman 10s., others 7s. per day; casual labour, Is. per hour; youths, 12s. 6d. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week Breast sawyers, 9s. to 10s. 6d.; big-bench sawyers, 9s. and 9s. 6d. ; tailers-out, 8s. to 9s.; machinists, 8s. to 10s. ; engine-drivers, 8s. to 10s.; bushmen, shoe-men, and log-trolly men, 9s.; labourers, 7s. 6d : all per day of eight hours. Head yardmen £10 10s., bul-lock-drivers £10, per calendar month. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Shipwrighting First-class boilermaker. Is. 4_d. per hour; ordinary boilermaker, Is. 3d. per hour ; riveting, caulking, punching, plating, and repairing, Is. 3d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 8s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Soap-boiling See Fellmongery, &c.