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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. i Canterbury Industrial District. Otago and Southland Industrial District. • ' ' ■ i Tinsmithing and coppersmithing (see also Canisterworkers) Journeymen, Is. 4d. per hour : appren - Journeymen coppersmiths, sheet-metal tices, five years. 7s. 6d. to 30s. per workers, tinsmiths, and galvanizers, week. Hours of labour, 47 per week Is. 4d. per hour ; improvers (one year after apprenticeship), 42s. per week ; apprentices, 7s. 6d. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week See Tailoresses (factory) .. .. See Tailoresses (factory) .. North Canterbury. —Same as Wellington. Dunedin. —Journeymen, Is. 4d. per hour ; South Canterbury. — Journeymen sheet- apprentices, six years, 7s. 6d. to 30s. metal workers, Is. 2fd. per hour. per week. Hours of labour. 47 per Hours of labour. 44 per week week. i Southland. —Journeymen, Is. 4Jd. per hour; improvers. Is. IJd. per hour; apprentices, five years, 6s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour. 44 per week. See Tailoresses (factory) .. .. I See Tailoresses (factory). Waterproof-clothing manufacturing Wax-vestas manufacturing Piecework —Plains, 3d. per gross of boxes; No. 4 tins, 1 s. per gross; No. 10 tins, 2s. per gross; No. 12 cardboard, 6d. per gross; filling frames on machine, 3fd. per rack of 16 frames, average of 68 boards to the frame. Hours of labour, 45 per week. Petone Mills. —Girls, first year 8s. per week, after fourth year 25s. ; boys, ] from 14 to 21 years of age 8s. to 35s. per week, thereafter 45s. per week; wool-sorters, 50s. ; warpers and tuners, 56s. ; pattern-weavers (hand loom), 48s.; spinners, 50s. ; carpenters, 60s.; blacksmiths, 60s. ; all other adult workers, 45s. per week. Hours of labour. 48 per week Same as Wellington District .. . . I Same as Wellington District. Woollen-milling ..