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and ls>. 4d. ; pelt-ulassers, Is. 6d.; skin-washers, Is. 4Jd. ; wool-pressers. Is. 3d. ; pullers, 9d. per dozen skins; freezing-chamber hands, Is. 4Jd. per hour ; manure, hide, tallow, and pre-serving-department workers, Is. 3d. ; firemen and greasers. 10s. per day; boys and youths, 15 to 19 years of age and over, 12s. 6d. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour, 8 per day. Hawke's Bay. — Slaughterhouse, assistants—Boners, Is. 3d. per hour; cooling-floor and guthouse hands, and general labourers not otherwise specified, Is. per hour ; meat-classer, Is. 3d. per hour (including Sunday work). Fellmongery—Pullers, 4s. 6d. per hundred skins ; painters, fleshers, scudders, wool - driers, all dollymen, woolscourers, trimmers, wringers, and woolpressers, Is. Id. per hour ; pelt-classer, Is. 3d. per hour ; general, floor hands, other labourers, and piece or pie men, per hour ; freezing - chamber hands, Is. 4Jd. per hour; fat-house hands, Is. per hour; manure hands, Is. per hour ; storeman, 555. per week ; first hand, 355. per week. Tinsmith— Cutting 1 lb. to 6 lb. tins, 4d. to 7d. per 100 ; making 1 lb. to 6 lb. tins, 2s. 4d. to 3s. 6d. per 100 ; topping 1 lb. to 6 lb. tins, Is. sd. to 2s. Id. per 100 ; jobbing-work, Is. Id. per hour. Preserving department— First assistant, Is. 2d. per hour; other hands, Is. per hour; night-watchman, Bs. per night of twelve hours. Engine-room and stokehole— Second engineer, 80s. per week ; third engineer, 70s. per week ; greasers, Bs. per day ; firemen, 9s. per day (including Sundays and holidays, if required); general labourers, Is. per hour. Fitter, Is. 3d. per hour ; fitter's assistant, Is. o|d. per hour ; blacksmith, Is. 3d. per hour; blacksmith's assistant, Is. OJd. per hour; carpenters and coopers, Is. 3d. per hour ; painters. Is. 3d. per hour ; carters and shunters, 48s. per week ; general labourers not otherwise specified, Is. per hour; cook, 50s. per week of seven days ; youths, 16s. to 325. per week. Hours of labour, 8 per day.

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