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Accepted Industrial District. Recommendation, Agreement, or Award. Date. Hours. Overtime. Wages. Youths. Competent Workers. Slaughtebmen (Feeezini 1-WOEKS). Northern (Gisborne) Award 14/7/04 8 hours per day Time and a quarter Slaughtermen —sheep and lambs, £1 per 100; leg-of-mutton sheep, 16s. 8d. per 100; potters, 12s. 6d. per 100; rams, £1 5s. per 100; bullocks, 2s. each; pigs, Is. each; calves, present rates. Cooling-floor and gut-house hands, 7s. per day. Boners, 8s. Feilmongery hands, from 7s. to 8s. Men working at manure and blood crushing, 7s. 6d. per day. Tinsmiths, 8s. per day. Others, 7s. per day. Freezing-chamber hands, Is. per hour; freezing- shoot hands, Is. per hour; freezing casual hands, Is. Id. per hour. Firemen, £2 12s. 6d. for a week of 7 days. Watchmen, 7s. 6d. per night, 7 nights of 12 hours each. Unspecified labour, 7s. per day. Slaughtermen —Freezing sheep and lambs, £1 3s. per 100; leg-of-mutton sheep, £1 per 100; potters, 18s. per 100; for rams (other than ram lambs), 4d. each ; bullocks, 2s. each; pigs, Is. Cooling-floor and gut-house hands, 7s. 6d. per day. Boners, 8s. 6d. per day. Fat-house hands, 7s. 6d. per day. Manure and blood crushing, 8s. Feilmongery hands, from 7s. to 8s. per day. Preserving hands from 7s. 6d. to 8s. Freezing-chamber hands, Is. 3d. per hour. Coopering department, 7s. to 8s. per day. Firemen, £2 16s. for a week of 7 days. Watchmen, £3 for a week of 7 days. General labour, 7s. per day. Freezing - chambers loading or preparing for loading of wagons or trucks, Is. per hour. Casual labour, Is. Id. per hour. 12s. 6d. £1 15s. ti tt ir 1/5/07 Ditto Time and a quarter From 14 tc 21 years oi age, 12s, to £1 15s. tt Canterbury Is. 1-J-d. per hour; double time for Christmas Day and Good Friday; time and a half for work on Sundays, New Year's Day, Easter Monday, Boxing Day, Anniversary Day, King's Birthday, Prince of Wales's Birthday, and Labour Day 10/10/02 Nil. It