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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. Cabinetmaking and upholstering Cabinet, chair, and frame makers, carvers, machinists, and upholsterers, Is. 3£d. per hour ; turners and polishers, Is. 3d. per hour ; apprentices, five yeais, .V. to 25s. per week ; improvers, first year, Is. per hour. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Gisborne. —Journeymen, all branches, 1«. 4Jd. per hour ; apprentices, rive years, 8s. to 28s. 6d\ per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week.* See Fellmongering, &c. Cabinetmakers, upholsterers, chair and frame makers, machinists, wood carvers and turners, and polishers. Is. 4Jd. per hour; apprentices, five years, 8s. to 28s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. Cabinetmakers, wood - carvers, upholsterers, turners, frame - makers, polishers, machinists, and pictureframers, Is. 4Jd. per hour ; improvers, Is. ljd. to Is. 3d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 8s. to 28s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. Same as Canterbury, with addition of timber-stackers and other labourers, Is. per hour. Candle-manufacturing Canister-worker--Cardboard-box making Carpentering and joinery work Journeymen carpenters and joiners, Is. 4£d. per hour, except when continuously employed full time in factory, when to be paid 57s. per week ; apprentices, five years, 7s. 6d. to 27s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Gisborne. —Journeymen carpenters and joiners, Is. 4|d. per hour ; apprentices, rive years, 7s. lid. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Wellington City and 50-mile Radius. — Journeymen carpenters and joiners, Is. 6d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 33s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. Other Parts of District (except Hawke's Bay). —Journeymen, Is. 4£d. per hour ; apprentices, 8s. to 33s. per week. Hours of labour, 46 per week. Hawke's Bay. —Journeymen, Is. 4Jd. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 2.">s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. Christchtirch City and Middle Canterbury. —Journeymen carpenters and joiners, Is. 4Jd. per hour; apprentices, five years, 8s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 8 per day or 44 per week (except when employed continuously in factory, 45 per week). South Canterbury. —Journeymen carpenters and joiners, Is. 4Jd. per hour; foremen, Is. (id. per hour ; apprentices, five years, r>s. to 30b. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. North Canterbury. —Journeymen carpenters and joiners, 10s. 8d. per day of 8 hours ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. See Tailors and Tailoresses Journeymen, Is. 4Jd. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 8s. to 37s. 6d. per week ; improvers —first year Is. per hour, second year Is. 3d. per hour; helpers, 15 to 20 years, 10s. to 35s. per week ; over 20, Is. per hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Adult workers, Is. per hour ; boys and youths, five years, 12s. 6d. to 35s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Journeywomen, 25s. per week; apprentices, four years, 5s. to 22s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. Excluding Southland. — Journeymen carpenters and joiners, Is. 6d. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 35s. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. Southland. —Journeymen, Is. 4Jd. per hour; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 27s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Clothing-manufacturing Coachbuilding See Tailors and Tailorcsses All except Gisborne. —.Journeymen, ls.4Jd. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 8s. to 35s. per week ; improvers —first year Is. per hour, second year Is. ljd. per hour ; helpers, 15 to 21 years of age, 10s. to 30s. per week ; 21 years and over, lOJd. per hour. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Competent journeymen, 58s. 6d. per week ; casual labour, Is. 4d. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 8s. to 35s. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. See Tailors and Tailoresscs Journeymen, Is. 3d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 30s. per week ; improvers —lirst year 8s. per day, second year 9s. per day. Hours of labour, 48 per week. See Tailors and Tailoresses. Journeymen, Is. 4£d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 8s. to 35s. per week ; helpers —10s. to 35s. per week up to 20 years of age, (over 20) Is. per hour ; improvers, Is. to Is. ljd. per hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Coopering Coopers, Is. 2d. ]>er hour. Hours of labour, 4li per week.