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Table 5.—Schedule of the Rates of Wages and the Hours of Labour, etc.— continued.

Trade or Occupation. Northern Industrial District. Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial District. Otago and Southland Industrial District. t i Fellmongering, &o. — contd. gering, &o. .— contd. . 50s. per week of seven shif ts of 1 1 hours lOJd. per hour; wool-dryers. Is. per each; general labourers and casual hour; wool-wringers, Is. per hour; hands, It. per hour; youths, 12s. 6d. pelt-washers, 11-Jd. to Is. per 100; to 20s. per week up to 18 years of wool-pressing, Is. per bale; fleshing, age, over 18 years and up to 21 years 2Jd. per dozen ; scudders, Is. per hour ; j of age 7Jd. to 9d. per hour. Hours pelt-curer, Is. per hour ; trollyman, Is. j of labour, 48 per week. per hour ; benchman, 10 Jd. per hour ; Beamsmen— Journeymen, Is. lfd.-per kidney-boy, if man 7s. per day, if : hour : improvers, lOJd. per hour, boy 12s. 6d. to 35s. per week (from 14 for two years; apprentices, three to 21 years of age); paunch-cutter, years, 20s. to 30s. per week. Hours 1 lfd. per hour ; foreman. Is. per hour ; of labour, 48 per week. wheels, 10 Jd. per hour ; skins - exGisborne. —Boners, graders, pelt-classers, aminer, Is. per hour ; cooling-room, chamber hands, fitters, moulders, and lOJd. per hour; grader, Is. per hour ; blacksmiths, Is. 4Jd. per hour ; trim- freezing-chamber hands, Is. 3d. per mers, blood and manure hands, hour; loading-out, Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. painters, fleshers, scudders, wool-driers, ■ per hour ; firemen, 56s. per week ; doUymen, wool-scourers, and wool- greaser, 56s. per week of 56 hours; wringers, tinsmiths, coopers, lime- bone-mill, 11 Jd. per hour ; tallowburners, and tallymen on chute, 1 s. 3d.; shed, 10Jd.; offal - trolly, Is. per general cooling-floor hands, gut-house hour ; night-watchman, 50s. per week ; hands, and truckmen, paunch-cutters, general hands not enumerated, lOJd. hide-washers, beef slaughtermen's as- per hour ; boys and youths, from 12s. sistants, wool-pressers, and general to 35s. per week according to age. floor hands, skin-truckers, piece or pie Hours of labour, 48 per week, men, and preserving-department work- Wellington. —Slaughterhouse assistants — | ers (other than tinsmith), Is. IJd. per Boners, Is. 4Jd. per hour. Fellmonghour ; greasers and firemen, 10s. per ery : skin-washers, Is. 4Jd. per hour, shift. Boys and youths — 15 and under, and piecework from Is. 2d. to 2s. per 12s. 6d. per week ; 15 to 19 years and 100 ; painters, Is. 4d. ; fleshers, maover, 18s. to 40s. per week. Hours of chine-feeders, Is. 3d. to Is. 4Jd. per j labour, 8J per day hour ; scudders, Is. 3d. to Is. 4d. ; pelt-classer, Is. 4d. ; freezing-chamber hands, Is. 4Jd. ; leading hand in hide house, Is. 4Jd. ; others, Is. 3d. ; pre-serving-department workers, Is. 3d.; boys and youths, 15 to 19 and over, 12s. 6d. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour, 8 per day. Masterton. —Slaughterhouse assistants : Boners, gutmen, and floormen, Is. 4Jd. per hour ; cooling-floor hands, trimmers, and general labourers, Is. 3d. Fellmongery : Painters, Is. 4d. ; piece or pie men, Is. ; limers, 10s. 6d. per day ; fleshers, machine-feeders, Is. 3d. to Is. 4Jd. per hour ; scudders, Is. 3d. Is. 2d. per hour; shaving-machine hands on chrome and sheepskins, 1 s. 2d. per hour ; hide unhairers and scudders, Is. Ofd. per hour; rollers of crop, Is. IJd. per hour; rollers of split, Is. Ofd. per hour; all others in fellmongery department, from is. to 1 s. Ofd. per hour ; soap-workers, 1 s. per hour ; machine fleshers, scudders, and hand fleshers, Is. Id. per hour; hide beamsmen and hide-fleshers Is. 2d. per hour ; other hands, lOJd. per hour ; apprentices, three years, 20s. to 30s. per week; youths, 14 to 18 years 12s. to 21s. per week, 18 to 21 years 9d. per hour; all over 21 years, not less than 1 s. per hour. Hours of labour —Fellmongery department, winter 8, summer 9 per day ; soap-workers, 48 per week. [Note. —See also Curriers.]