H.—ll.

HOURS OF WORK, Etc.-continued.

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Industry or Workers Scope of Awards or Hours fixed Rpm«rk« affected. Agreements. by Court. permitted. ' Labourers . . .. Wellington City Council . . 40 No Certain exemptions made in regard to scavengers and street orderlies, convenience - attendants, night-watchmen and pumpattendants, turncocks, refuse loaders and tipmen, zoological-garden workers, animal and gate keepers, cemetery workers, employees on reserves, baths, beaches, playinggrounds, and gardens. Labourers (local bodies) . . New Zealand . . .. .. 40 No In certain special circumstances Saturday work is permitted. Laundry-workers . . Wellington .. .. 40 and 44 No Depot hands, 44 hours (5-J day week). Laundry-workers . . Nelson .. .... 40 Yes Lime-manufacturing . . Canterbury . . .. 40 and 44 Yes Workers employed in manufacturing of burnt lime, 44-hour week; workers employed in the manufacturing of carbonate of lime or shell lime, 44 hours during busy six months and forty hours during remaining six months. Period of work without meal-interval for all shift workers in lime-factories extended to eight hours. Lime-manufacturing .. Otago and Southland .. .. 44 Yes Match-factory employees Wellington and Dunedin . . 40 No Milk pasteurizing and dis- Auckland (Twenty-mile Radius).. 42 and 44 Yes . 44-hour week for motor and horse drivers; tributing depot employees 42 all other workers. Milk roundsmen . . Christchurch (Twenty-mile Radius) . . .. 84 per fortnight, with at least two days oft. Motion-picture projection- Northern, Taranaki, Wellington, 40 Yes Up to 40 hours per week. ists Nelson, Westland, and Otago and Southland Motor assembling, repair- New Zealand (except Marlborough) 40 Yes Where workers required to work on Saturday ing and servicing industry morning such workers must be given a halfholiday other than the statutory half-holiday in the week and shall have at least one Saturday morning off in every four weeks. In assembling works 40 hours to be worked between Monday and Friday inclusive. Garage attendants, 44-hour week. A week's work shall consist of six working-days. Meter makers and repairers Wellington . . .. . . 40 No Optical employees .. Northern and Canterbury 40 Yes -Faint and varnish manu- Wellington and Otago and South- 40 No facturers land Painters and decorators .. New Zealand (except Westland).. 40 No Workers employed on ship-repair work, 44 hours (5J day week). Piano tuners and repairers Northern . . .. .. 40 Yes Paper-mills .. .. Otago and Southland .. .. 40 Yes No order by Court in respect of Saturday work. Plasterers .. .. Northern, Wellington, Canterbury, 40 No and Otago and Southland Plasterers (fibrous) . . Wellington ...... 40 No Plumbers and gasfitters . . Northern, Wellington, Nelson, 40 No Gasfitters (Northern) permitted to work on Canterbury, and Otago and Saturdays for the purpose of installing or Southland connecting gas-burning appliances. Saturday work also permitted in case of shiprepair work. Printing and related trades New Zealand . . . . .. 44 day . . 44 hours day workers, 42 hours night workers. workers ; In .newspaper-printing offices and in trade 42 night stereotyping houses servicing newspapers workers • Saturday work permitted: in other offices not permitted. Typographers .. . . New Zealand .. .. 42 and 44 . . 42-hour week for all workers except those employed in linotype mechanics' depart- » ment and in handwork and jobbing work, whose hours shall be 44 for day workers and 42 for shift workers. Females, 40-hour week. Radiotricians .. . . Canterbury . . .. .. 43J- Yes Range-workers .. .. Canterbury and Otago and South- 40 No Permissible to employ workers in the enamelland ling and sand-blasting sections on Saturdays. Rope and twine workers.. Northern .. .. .. 40 No Saturday work permitted for storemen; variation for shift workers. Saddlery, harness, and bag Northern and Canterbury 40 Yes manufacturing Sawmilling, Boxmaking, Northern (North of 38th Parallel), 40 . . Saturday work permitted in boxmaking - and timber-yards Wellington, Westland, North factories and also in timber-yards in respect Canterbury, Dunedin (Ten-mile of kiln-drying attendants and employees Radius), Otago Provincial Dis- required for supply of dunnage for shipping, trict (East and North of Taieri Saturday work permitted in bush sawmills. River), Southland, Nelson, and Marlborough Shop-assistants, retail . . Northern, Wellington, Canterbury, 44 Yes and Otago and Southland Shipping industry— Seamen . . . . Northern, Wellington, and Otago . . . . Hours of labour at sea for seamen shall not and Southland be more than eight in a day. Hours of labour in port for deck, engine-room, and stokehold hands shall not be more than eight in a day, to be worked between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. on six working-days of the week.