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Tourist Accommodation-houses (Rotorua). — Kitchen : male cook, 40 s. ; other male hands, 25s.; female cook, 30s.; other female hands, 20 s. ; males in pantey, 20s. ; females in pantry, 16s. Porters and general hands, 20s.; waitresses and housemaids, 16s. ; laun resses, 22s. 6d. per week. Hours rr" labour, 65 per week. Adult minimum wage —Day-work, Is. per hour; night-work, Is. OJd. per hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week Manure-manufacturing Workers employed in and about manureworks, tallow-works, oleo-works, 1 s. Ofd. per hour; general labourers, Is. per hour. Hours of labour. 8 per day Adult minimum [wage, Is. [per henr. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Match-manufacturing Meat freezing, slaughtering, and preserving (see also Fellmongering, tfce.) Auckland (for export). —For freezing sheep and lambs, 25s. per 100 : others, 18s. to 20s. per 100 ; rams, 5d. per head ; bullocks, 2s. per head ; pigs, Is. and Is. 6d. per head; calves, Is. and Is. 6d. per head ; Iambs requiring back sets, 5d. per head; dead sheep and lambs, Is. per head; dead cattle, 5s. per head. Hours of labour. 8 per day. See Wax-vestas manufacturing. Ngahauranga and Petone. — For freezing sheep and lambs, 27s. 6d. per 100 ; rams other than ram lambs, 5d. per head; lambs requiring back sets, 5d. per head ; dead sheep and lambs, Is. ; dead cattle, 5s.; cattle, 2s.; pigs, Is. to Is. 6d. ; calves, Is. to Is. 6d. ; potters' sheep, 20s. per 100. Hours of labour. 8 per day Slaughtermen's assistants, Is. 2Jd. per hour ; boys and youths, 14s. to 25s. per week, according to age. Hours of labour, 8 per day. Slaughtermen (Christchurch abattoirs). — Rate of wages, 70s. per week ; casual slaughtermen to be paid at the rate of 15s. per day of eight hours, or 80s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Slaughtermen's assistants and labourers up to 17 years of age, 30s. per week; 17 to 21 and over, 35s. to 60s. Hours of labour, 8 per day. Meat-preserving —Boners, Is. IJd. per hour ; second preserver, Is. IJd. per hour ; other hands, 1 s. Ofd. per hour ; youths, from 12s. to 21s. per week, aecording to age ; greasers and firemen, Is. IJd. per hour. Hours of labour, 8 per day Strikers, labourers, yardmen, and fettlers, Is. per hour; machinists, Is. Id. per hour ; holders-up on watertight work, furnaoing and flanging boilerwork, Is.. IJd. per hour (if on ships or steamers. Is. 2d. per hour) : annealing furnacemen, when firing up, Is. IJd. per hour ; steel crucible furnacemen, Is. 3d. per hour; youths up to 21 years of age, 10s. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour, 4S per week Boilermaking, see Shipbuilding, &c. Burnside Abattoirs. —Slaughtermen, SOs. to 65s. per week ;[ casual hands, ]2s. per| day or 70s. per|week; boys and youths, ]2s. to 35s. per week, according to age. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Metal - working (including boilermaking) Boilermaking, see Shipbuilding, &c. Strikers, labourers, yardmen, and fettlers, Is. per hour ; machinists, Is. Id. per hour ; tankwcrkers, stokehold-workers, and all work done below main deck, Is. 2d. per hour ; annealingfurnacemen. Is. IJd. per hour (when firing up) ; youths and boys, 7s. 6d. to 32s. 6d. per week, according to age. Hours of labour, 8 per day. Boilermaking, see Shipbuilding, tfce. Labourers assisting boilermakers, and general ironworkers and labourers engaged in assembling imported machinery, 1 s. per hour : labourers employed on erection of structural work (iron or steel) outside of employers' works on site of the erection, Is. Id. per hour. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Boilermaking, see Shipbuilding, &c. Paper-milling Mataura. —Machinemen, 1 s. 3d. per hour ; machinemen's assistants, 9Jd. per hour ; beatermen, Is. 3d. per hour ; beatermen's assistants, 10 Jd. per hour; enginedrivers, 1 s. 1 Jd. per hour ; boilermen, 1 s. per hour; choppermen, Is. OJd. per hour ; choppermen's assistants, 9d. per