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Return showing the various Awards, Accepted Recommendations, and Agreements made under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act— continued.

Industrial District. Accepted Recommendation, Agreement, or Award. Date. Hours. Overtime. Proportion of Youths. Wages. Youths. Competent Workers. Slaughtermen * Northern (Auckland) Award 16/5/07 8 hours per day Time and a quarter, time and a half, double time 1 gut hand to every 3 slaughtermen Slaughtermen —freezing sheep and lambs, £1 3s. per 100; leg-of-mutton sheep, £1 per 100 ; potters, 18s. per 100 ; rams, other than ram lambs, 4d. each; bullocks, 2s. ; pigs, Is. each ; calves, present rates. Cooling-floor and gut-house hands, UJ-d. per hour. Boners, present rates All sheep or lambs not otherwise specified, £1 per 100; all rams, 5d. each; all sheep and lambs, dead when brought to works, 5d. each; all cattle, 2s. each; all pigs, Is. each ; all calves, Is. each Freezing sheep and lambs, £1 per 100; for order sheep, lambs, and rams, the prices now paid in the said factories ; bullocks, 2s. each ; pigs, 9d. per head ; calves, the prices now paid Boys and youths, 12s. to £1 15s. Wellington (Town) Agreement t 1/8/04 Starting-time, 8 a.m.; ceasingtime, not stated Not stated Nil ... Canterbury (General) Award 14/8/01 I Starting-time, 7 a.m.; ceasingtime, not stated Double time for King's Birthday, Good Friday,Easter Monday, Labour Day, Show Day,Christmas Day, and Sundays Time and a half, double time a • • • Ditto ... Agreement 31/1/04 48 hours it •• ' „ ... ... it 15/2/04 Starting-time, 7 a.m.; ceasingtime, not stated 50-hour week Double time for holidays tt • • • tt • ■ • tt • - • • • Slaughtermen engaged at abattoirs, £3 per week; casual slaughtermen, 12s. per day Freezing sheep and lambs, £1 per 100 ; other sheep, lambs, and rams, the prices now paid in the said factories ; bullocks, 2s. each; pigs, 9d. per head; calves, the prices.now paid. In addition to the above rates, a bonus of 6d. per day each for every day between 1st December and 31st August in each year All potter sheep, 18s. per 100 ; preservers, £1 per 100 ; freezing sheep and lambs, £1 3s. per 100; pigs— up to 100, 9d. each, over 100, Is. ; bullocks, 2s. each ; calves, Is. each; rams, other than ram lambs, 4d. each; shop sheep killed by piecework, £1 5s. per 100 Not stated 20/4/07 * See also " Meat-workers, Wanganui," page 37, and " Slaughtermen's Assistants," page 43. t This agreement ruled to be informal.