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Table 5.—Schedule of the Rates of Wages and the Hours of Labour in Factories and Shops in the Four Chief Industrial Districts fixed by Industrial Agreements and by Awards of the Court of Arbitration, in Force on the 31st, March, 1913.

Trade or Occupation. Northern Industrial District. . Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial District. Otago and Southland Industrial Distri Aerated-water and cordial Foreman, 55s. and 60s. ; cordial-makers, .. ! Foremen and cordial-makers, 60s.; mamanufacturing 55s. and 60s.; machine bottlers, 50s.; chine bottlers and beer-bottlers, 50s. ; packers and wirers, 45s.; bottlers, bottle-washers, 42s. ; casual labour, bottle-washers, and general labourers, Is. per hour; youths, 14 to 21 years, 42s. per week (44 to 49 hours); youths, 10s. to 35s. per week ; improvers at 10s. to 35s. machine bottling, first three months j 35s. per week, second three months 45s. per week. Hours of labour — summer, 49 per week ; winter, 44 per week. Bacon-curing .. ..' See Butchers' small-goods manufacturing .. Head curer, 60s. per week; slaughtermen, cutters-up, and rollers, Is. 24d. per hour ; scalders, Is. 1 Jd. per hour ; | cellarmen, lard-makers, and storehands, Is. Ofd. per hour; other workers, Is. per hour; boys and youths, 14 to 20 years, 12s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Basketware, rattan, and Journeymen rattan and wicker workers, .. Journeymen, Is. 2d. per hour per week wicker-work manufacturing Is. 2d. per hour ; improvers, 35s. per of 44 hours ; apprentices, 5 years, 5s. week ; apprentices, four years, 5s. to to 30s. 20s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week Blacksmithing and farriery Farriers and general smiths, Is. 4d. per Farriers and general smiths, Is. 4d. per hour; floormen, Is. IJd. per hour; hour; floormen, Is. IJd. per hour ; apapprentices, five years, 10s. to 37s. 6d. prentices, five years, 10s. to 32s. 6d. per per week ; piecework, shoe-turning week. Hours of labour, 46 per week, only, ,3s. per dozen for heeled shoes, ' Wellington Country Award.— -Farriers and 2s. 6d. per dozen for plain shoes. general smiths, Is. 3d. per hour ; floorHours of labour, 47 per week men, Is. Ofd. per hour; apprentices, six years, 7s. 6d. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Boilermaking .. .. See Shipbuilding, t&c. .. .. j See Shipbuilding, tfce. .. .. ] See Shipbuilding, t&c. .. .. See Shipbuilding, tfce. Bookbinding .. .. Journeymen binders and paper-rulers, Journeymen, 60s. per week: casual j Journeymen, 60s. per week; casual 60s. per week; cutters, 30s. to 55s.; labour, 1 s. 4 Jd. per hour ; apprentices, \ labour, Is. 4Jd. per hour; apprencasual labour, Is. 4Jd. per hour; . six years, 1.0s. to 30s. per week. Hours j tices, six years, 10s. to 30s. per week, apprentices, six years, 10s. to 30s. per j of labour, 48 per week Hours of labour, 48 per week, week. Hours of labour, 48 per week I Bootmaking (male opera- All adult operatives, Is. 2d. per hour; j Same as in Northern District .. .. Same as in Northern District .. .. Same as in Northern District, fives) apprentices, five years, 10s. to 32s. 6d. ! per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week Bootmaking (female opera- Journeywomen, 27s. 6d. per week ; wax- Same as Northern District .. .. Same as in Northern District .. .. Same as Northern District. tives) - thread - machine workers, 35s. per week; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 23s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week I Otago and Southland Industrial District riot