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[ours. 'ages. Trade. District. Pagt From j To Years of First and Last Awards From To Gold-miners Westland (Inangahua) 33 Stationary Rising or sinking winze or shafts : 10/ per day | 10/6 per day Miners : 9/6 per day | 10/ per day Truckers in wet levels : 8/ per day | 8/6 per day Men at rock-drills not in charge : 9/6 per day | 10/ per day Other hands stationary Stationary 1902 to 1907 Grocers' assistants .. Canterbury (Christchurch) Otago (Dunedin) 31 53 52 1902 to 1906. »C* • * 31 Stationary 40/ per week | 45/ per week Apprentices : 16 - 21 years, | 15-23 years, 10/ to 25/ | 10/ to 42/ Stationary Journeymen stationary Apprentices : 5/ to 22/0 | 5/ to 30/ Journeymen stationary. Apprentices : 5/ to 25/ | 5/ to 30/ Stationary (piecework) lid. to 1/1 | 1/3 per hour per hour Apprentices : 6/6 to 20/ 6/6 to 25/ 1/2 per hour 1/3 per hour 1901 to 1905. Iron-workers Iron and brass moulders Otago (Burnside) Northern (General) 35 35 48 44 Stationary 1901 to 1903, 1902 to 1905. »» Wellington (City) 35 46$ 47 (See Summary 3) 47$ 45 Stationary 1899 to 1905. Match-factory employees Painters .. Northern (AuckCity) 37 38,39 1900 to 1902. 1898 to 1904. „ .. . • Wellington (Palmerston N.) Canterbury (Christchurch) Otago (Dunedin) Northern (Auckland City) 45 44 1900 to 1905. 39 39 Stationary 1/ per hour 1/3 per hour 1897 to 1905. ,, . . . . Plumbers 40 41 1/1$ per hour I 1/3 per hour 1/ per hour | 1/2 per hour Apprentices: 6/ to 20/ 5/ to 20/ per week per week (decrease) 1/4$ per hour 1/6 per hour 1898 to 1902. 1899 to 1905. Plasterers Canterbury (Christchurch) Ditto ,, 1901 to 1904. 41 Range-makers Shearers .. ,, . . • ■ Saddlers Slaughtermen Canterbury Otago Northern (Auckland City and General) Gisborne 43 44,45 47 42 43 ,» tr 50 48$ Stationary 7/6 to 8/6 7/ to 9/ per day per day By machine: 15/6 per 100 I 16/8 per 100 with rations | with rations By hand: 16/8 per 100 17/per 100 with rations with rations 15/ per 100 16/8 per 100 with rations with rations 48/ 48/ to 55/ Apprentices: 5/ to 20/ | 5/ to 25/ Sheep and lambs: 20/ per 100 | 23/ per 100 Leg-of-mutton sheep: 16/8 per 100 | 20/ per 100 Potters: 12/6 per 100 | 18/ per 100 Rams: 25/ per 100 | 33/4 per 100 Cooling-floor and gut-house hands: 7/ per day | 7/6 per day Boners: 8/ per day | 8/6 per day Manure and blood crushers : 7/6 per day | 8/ per day Chamber hands: 1/ to 1/1 per | 1/3 per hornhour Firemen: 52/6-perweek I 56/ of seven days | Nightwatchmen: 7/6 per night I 60/ per week I of seven days Youths: 12/6 to 35/ | 12/ to 35/ (decrease) Sheep and lambs : 20/ per 100 | 23/ per 100 1902 to 1905. 1902 to 1906. 1904 to 1906. 1900 to 1906. 1904 to 1907. », Canterbury (General) ■16 Not fixed 1901 to 1907.