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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. Canterbury Industrial Distri'-t. Otapo nn'l Southland Industrial District. 5ftwmilling — continued feeders, yard, slab, sawdust, shaving men, 7s. 6d. per day (but employers may engage machine-feeders, yard, slab, sawdust, and shaving men who are inexperienced at the work at 7s. per day for a period not exceeding six months); horse-drivers, 8s. per day ; engine - drivers who require to hold first - class certificate, 10s. per day ; engine - drivers who require to hold second-class certificate, 9s. per day; stokers, 7s. 6d. per day ; blacksmiths, in country mills only, 10s. per day ; blacksmith strikers, in country mills only (if an adult), 8s. per day ; head mill carpenters, 10s. per day; second mill carpenters, 9s. per day; first ordermen, 8s. per day ; assistant ordermen, 7s. 6d. per day ; machinemen who make and keep their own irons, 9s. 6d. per day ; machinemen who set up machine, 7s. 6d. per day; dreeaedtimber sorters, 7s. 6d. per day ; nightwatchman (maximum hours to be worked, 63 per week), 6s. 6d. per day ; holiday and Sunday watchmen (if not employed as ordinary night-watchmen), 9J hours per day, 7s. '6d. ; assistant engineers (turners and fitters), 9s. 6d. per day ; tallymen, 10s. per day. Hours of lal>our, 47 per week. Shipwrights, Is. 4d. per hour; boat- Wellington City. — First - class"! , boilerbuilders, Is. 3d. per hour; repair makers, Is. 4Jd. per hour; ordinary work, Is. 4Jd. per hour; apprentices. boilermakers, Is. 3d. per hour. J Hours five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 45J per week. of labour, 47 per week. Country Districts. —Journeymen, same as First-class boilermakers, Is. 4£d. per Wellington City. Hours of labour, hour ; ordinary boilermakers, Is. 3d. 48 per week. per hour; boilermakers , assistants, Is. ljd. per hour; apprentices, six years, 8s. to 36s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. 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 chart cutters, 60s. per week ; stock cutters, 55s. ; examiners, 50s. ; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. 12s. 6d. per week; head yardmen, 60s. per week ; ordermen, 50s. ; others in yard, 45s. ; casual labourer;-. Is. per hour ; carters, one horse 46s., two or more horses 50s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. yardmen in charge, £11 per calendar montfe; bullock-drivers, 9s. Ikl. pel day; boys, from 14 years of age, 3s. per day, with advance of Is. for every year over 14. Hours of labour, 4S per week. Shipbuilding, boilermaking, iron-bridge building First-elass~boilermakers, Is. 4Jd. per t hour; ordinary boilermakers, Is. 3d. per hour ; other workers, Is. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 8s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. First-class boilermakers, Is. 4£d. per hour; ordinary boilermakers, Is. 3d. per hour ; "riveting, caulking, punching, plating, and repairing, Is. 3d. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 8s. to 2.~>s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Shirtmaking, &c.