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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. Bootmaking (male operatives) All adult operatives, Is. 2d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 10s. to '.\2.~. (id. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. Journeywomcn, 27s. 6d. per week ; waxthread - machine workers, 35s. per week ; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 23s. per week. Hoiirs of labour, 45 per week. Same as in Northern District Same as in Northern District Same as in Northern District. Bootmaking (female operatives) Same as in Northern District Same as in Northern District Same as in Northern District. Bootmaking —retailers, &c. Journeymen, Is. 2d. per hour ; apprentices, six years, 5s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. See Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing. Bottling See Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing, and Brewing and malting. Boxmaking Brass founding and finishing Bread and small - goods manufacturing See Engineering Auckland Provincial District (except Gisborne). —Bakers and pastrycooks: Foremen, 65s. per week ; journeymen. 65e. : labourer-. 48s. per week ; apprentices, four years, (id. to 30s. per week, with deduction of from 7s. (id. to 15s. per week if boarded by employer : improvers, 40s. per week; jobbers, I Is. per day. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Poverty Bay District. —Foremen, (i.V. per week; other hands, 66e. ; jobbers, 10s. per day ; apprentices, five years, 12s. 6d. to 40s. per week, with an allowance of from 7s. 6d. to 15s. per week if boarded by employer. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Leading hand in cellar, 55s. per week ; night cellarman, 54s. per week, or Is. 2d. per hour; brewery labourers and malthoiisetnen. Is. ljd. per hour; botUing-honee labourers, Is. OJd. per hour: chilling-room men. Is. 2fd. per hour, or 56s. for a 46-hour week : youths and apprentices, 27s. 6d. to 40s. per week. Hours —breweries and malthouses, 46 ; bottling-houses and stores, 48 per week. Setters and drawers, Is. ljd. per hour; fireclay and ornamental brick and tile and pipe workers and flangers, Is. 3d. See Engineering Same as Auckland Provincial District .. See Engineering Same as Auckland Provincial District .. See Cardboard-box making. See Engineering. Same as Auckland Provincial District. \ 4 Brewing, malting, &c. In Breweries. — ■ Brewerymen, bottlers, and malthousemen, 47s. 6d. per week ; night-men, 50s. per week ; coopers, 57s. 6d. per week ; carters, 52s. per week ; casual labour, Is. per hour ; boys in bottling-houses, 15 to 20 years of age, 12s. 6d. to 35s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. Corking-machine men and aerated-water-bottling-machine men, 50s. per week; labourers, 45s. per week; casual labourers, Is. ljd. per hour; youths, 12s. Gd. to 35s. per week. Brick, tile, and pottery manufacturing Briekmakers —Moulders, 8s. per 1,000 for square bricks, and 9s. 6d. per 1,000 for fancy bricks ; setters and drawers,