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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. 1 i Shirtmaking, &c. Journeywomen in charge, 27s. 6d. per ... week ; journeywomen and examiners, 25s. ; apprentices, two years, 5s. to 12s. 6d. per week ; improvers, 15s. to 22s. 6d. per week ; journeymen chartcutters, 60s. per week; stock cutters, 55s. ; examiners, 50s. ; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. See Fellmongers, tfce. .... Wellington City. —Assistants, 16 years of age and under, first year of service, : males 10s., females 7s. 6d. per i week ; second year of service, males 15s., females 1.0s. per week: third year of service, males 20s., females 12s. 6d. per week; fourth year of service, males 25s., females 15s. per week ; fifth year of service, males 30s., females 20s. per week; sixth year cf service, males 37s. 6d., females 22s. 6d. per week ; seventh year of service, males 55s., females 27s. 6d. per week ; storemen, packers, and porters, 17 years of age and j under, 10s. per week; over 17, up to 21, 30 s. ; porters, over 21, 45s. per week; storemen and packers over 21, 50s. per week. Hours of labour, as fixed by Shops and Offices Act. Wanganui. —Same as Wellington City. Workers engaged getting out stone roughly squared to measurement, Is. 3d. per hour; powdermen, hammer and drill men, and jumpermen, Is. Id. per hour; other quarry workers, Is. per hour; youths, 17 to i 19 years, 15s. to 24s. per week; 20 j years, 5s. per day or 30s. per week ; j 21 years, 6s. per day or 36s. per week. Hours of labour. 48 per week Journeymen, Is. 6d. per hour; appren- '■ Journeymen, Is. 8d. per hour; appren- j Re Buildings! —Journeymen, Is. 6d. per tices, five years, 10s. to 30s. per week. tices, five years, 10s. to 30s. per week, j hour : apprentices, five years, 9s. to Hours of labour, 44 per week Hours of labour, 45 per week 35s. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. i Workers employed in getting out pitchers, building-stone, kerbstone, and pavingstone ready for masons. Is. 3d. per hour ; hammer and drill men, jumpermen, and workers using explosives. Is. Id. per hour: other workers. Is. per hour. Hours of labour. 48 per week Soap-boiling Soft-goods trade employees (retail) Stone crushing andjquarryfcg Stonemasonry I