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Stone crushing and quarry- Quarryiuen, spallers, feeders, truckers, i ing and fillers, 11 |d. per hour ; men squaring stone to measurement. Is. ljd. per hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week Sugar-refining -. .. Firemen, 54s. ; trimmers, 42s. ; liquor - ruimers, 54s. ; char-emptiers and levellers, 48s. ; pan-men, 60s. ; centrifugal driers, 48s. ; centrifugal scoopers, 45s. ; packing-store, 45s. to 48s. ; labourers, 42s. ; bovs, 16 to 21 years, 12s. 6d. to 30s.: all per week of 48 hours. All quarrymen, minimum of Is. per hour ; men squaring stone, la. 3d. per hour ; youths, 17 to 21 years, 15s. to 36s. | per week. Hours of labour, 46 per week. Tailoring — Tailors .. . . Minimum wage to journeymen, including pressers (pieceworkers as per log), 50s. per week; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week " Tailoresses .. .. Time-work, 8d. per hour ; coat-hands, 25s. and 30s. per week; vest and trouser hands, 21s. to 30s. per week; machinists. 17s. 6d. to 30s. per week ; apprentices, four years, 5s. to 20s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week Minimum wage to journeymen, 55s. per week ; pieceworkers as per log ; apprentioes, five years, 5s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week Canterbury award applies in this district Minimum wage, journeymen and pressors, Minimum' wage: Journeymeu, 55s. per 55s. per week; pieceworkers, mini- week; pieceworkers. Is. per hour and mum wages —males Is., females 8d., ! as per log: apprentices, five years, 5s. per hour, and as per log ; apprentices, to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 male, five years, 5s. to 30s., female, ' per week. four years, 5s. to 20s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week Jotirncywonien, 25s. per week; im- Canterbury award applies in this district. provers, 15s. to 20s. per week ; presser*. 50s. to 55s. per week; apprentices, two years, coat-making, 5s. to 12s. Cd. ; per week; vest and trouser making, one year, 5s. to 10s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week See Fellmongering. Journeymen, 9s. per day of eight hours ; Joumeymen,£98. per day of eight hours ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 30s. per apprentices, six years, 5s. to 32s. Od. week. Hours of labour, 48 per week per of vlabour, 48 per week. Tanning .. .. See Fellmongering. Tinsmithing and coppersmithing Journeymen, Is. 1 Jd. per hour; apprentioes, five years, 5s. to 30s. per woek. Hours of labour, 48 per week Wax-vestas manufacturing Woollen-milling Piecework — Plains, 3d. per gross of 144 boxes ; No. 4 tins, Is. per gross; No. 10 tins, 2s. per gross; No. 12 oardboard, 6d. per gross; filling frames on machine, 3}d. per rack of 16 frames, average of 68 boards to the frame. Hours of labour, 45 per week. i I I I Minimum rate for wages hands —Woolsorters, 50s. ; wool-scourers, •42s. ; dye-house, teasing, carding hands, 42s. ; spinners, 44s. ; feeders and piecers, 16 to 22 years, 25s. to 42s.; milling-room, finishing-room, press and stock room hands, 42s. ; tuners, 45s. to 56s. ; warpers, 56s. ; pattern - weavers, 45s. ; labourers, 42s. ; enginedrivers, 54s. ; firemen, 48s. ; greasers, 42s. ; carpenters, 60s. ; girls, first year 8s., second year 11s., third year 14s. ; youths, 14 to 22 years of age, 8s. to 35s.: all at per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. i i