DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR (REPORT OF THE).

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1894 Session I, H-06

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1894. NEW ZEALAND.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR (REPORT OF THE).

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

The Seceetaey, Department of Labour, to the Hon. the Ministeb of Labotjb. Sib, —- Department of Labour, Wellington, 10th June, 1894. I have the honour to present herewith the third annual report of this department. It covers the late financial year' —viz., from the Ist April, 1893, to the 31st March, 1894. It is not brought up to the present date, as some time has necessarily been taken up in compiling returns into statistical tables. I have, &c, The Hon. "W. P. Eeeves, Minister of Labour. Edwaed Tbegeae, Secretary.

LABOUR. The working-classes in New Zealand have had on the whole little cause of complaint during the past year. The ordinary labour-market of the colony, both in the skilled and unskilled branches, presented its average rate of engagements until towards the end of 1893, when the wave of commercial depression, which has had such calamitous consequences elsewhere, touched us in passing. Had local causes not tended to accentuate for a time this depression, it would scarcely have been felt in this colony at all. Unfortunately, the grain-harvest failed in the South Island, and not only impoverished the farmers, but affected the railway returns so seriously that the increase of profits in transit of other classes of produce was unavailing to restore the balance of the annual budget. The grass-seed harvest about Gisborne and the east coast of the North Island also failed. The stoppage of the Midland Eailway works, and the diminution of the output of coal in the Brunnerton mines, helped to throw many hands on the market in the South, while the sudden fall in the price of kauri-gum has straitened the gum-diggers of Auckland and the northern fields with severe repression of their industry. These reverses are by no means of a kind to induce despondency ; they are in their very nature of a temporary and ephemeral character. The Midland Eailway will probably resume its operations ; the harvest next year may redeem the failure of this ; and kauri-gum recover almost at a bound its former commercial position. The colony has unbounded resources in itself, and better security still in the spirit of its occupiers—men and women who have shown in far more troublous times that to their undaunted energy defeat is impossible. Many branches of industrial occupation have met with encouragement during the year. The wool-clip has been unusually heavy, and in other employments besides the pastoral so large has been the increase of produce that had it not been for low prices ruling elsewhere' (and with whose origin we had nothing to do) we should have had an unusually valuable annual list of exports. Signs of recovering prosperity in Australia and other countries are not wanting, and we can look forward confidently to renewed elasticity in the labour-market as well as in those of trade and commerce. STRIKES. The strikes during the year have been few in number, and only one of these has caused more than local interest. The strike at Benmore Station, in Otago, took place in December, 1893, and arose through a dispute between shearers and the manager as to shearing wet sheep. Mr. Middleton, the stationmanager, engaged twenty-eight shearers, and read over to them the shed rules, regulations, and an agreement by which the shearers were bound to shear all the sheep on the run at the rate of 15s. per hundred, the amount to be paid at the completion of the work, and the manager to be the sole judge as to the fitness of the sheep for shearing. The shearers signed the agreement to this effect on the Bth December, and worked till the 22nd, when they refused to continue, on the ground that the sheep were wet. Shearing wet sheep is unpleasant and unhealthy work, and is a frequent cause I—H. 6.

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of discontent among shearers ; but, as it is sometimes a matter of opinion whether sheep are wet or not, and as it is distinctly against the owners' interest to shear wet sheep, the assertion always requires considerable proof. The men informed the manager that they would not shear wet sheep, and the manager replied by ordering them to hand in their machines. The men desired that the clause of the agreement making the manager sole judge as to the fitness of the sheep should be annulled, and that the Australian system of decision (majority vote) should be substituted. The manager refused, and the men left the station to consult their union executive at Waimate. The case was brought into Court, and decision given against the shearers. About three hundred pounds' worth of wages or earnings was thus forfeited; but the station-owners claim that they suffered to fully that amount by the delay, and from the difficulty of getting new hands late in the season. A strike took place at Bowland's Station, Upper Taueru, Wairarapa, in January, 1894. Mr. McCrae, the manager of the station, offered 17s. 6d. per hundred sheep for shearing them, this being the price paid by Messrs. Beetham and adjoining settlers. The men were prepared to take this, but afterwards demanded £1 per hundred, on the ground that the food supplied was bad, and that they had to sleep in a stable wherein the rabbiter had been keeping his dogs, and out of which they had to remove at 5 a.m. to make way for horses to be fed there. There is little doubt that the accommodation offered to shearers is sometimes detestable, and needs supervision. In this case the manager stated that similar food and cooking had never been complained of in former years; that the men were aware what the sleeping-accommodation was like when they engaged; and that he had turned other men away for the sake of those who now grumbled. He returned the deposits to the strikers, and found other men to do the work at 17s. 6d. per hundred, some of the new-comers bringing tents with them, and so avoiding the stables as bedrooms. During the month of March, 1894, a dispute occurred between Messrs. Maine Brothers, of Christchurch, boot-manufacturers, and the Christchurch branch of the Bootmakers' Union, re the employment of union men and the adoption of the union's statement of wages and conditions, which statement has been adopted by the majority of boot-manufacturers. Maine Brothers contended that they had a perfect right to employ union or non-union men, as it pleased them, and also that their rate of wages on some lines was even higher than that laid down in the statement. The union, on the other hand, objected that they (Maine Brothers) were not paying union rates, and that, as a majority of the manufacturers had adopted the statement, it was only fair to these firms that Maine Brothers should conform, and work under union rules. Maine Brothers not being members of the Manufacturers' Association, the system of optional conciliation and arbitration could not be put into force, and, as an ultimate consequence, a strike against Maine Brothers' shop was declared by the union. The difficulty was of short continuance, and was amicably arranged, Messrs. Maine Brothers agreeing to work under the union statement, and that all their present non-union workmen would join the society. CO-OPERATIVE CONTRACTS. These, according to the general report of officials and the men who have been engaged on them, have proved to be effective and satisfactory modes of employing labour. Eash and misleading statements are sometimes made by public speakers and by correspondents in the Press as to the earnings of the men, but these contradict and nullify each other. One person will declare that the co-operative contractors are making 15s. a day, and that the country is being swindled thereby for some base purpose. Another will assert that the labourers on these contracts are being starved and "sweated" to death in the bush, and that the families of the men have to be kept by benevolent societies. The truth lies between these two extremes, a fairly good wageaverage having been earned on the contracts without the value of the middleman's profit having been lost to the country. An indirect gain, too, is the more general employment given, as the tendering contractor under the old system would only employ the flower of the labouring-class— generally single young men —to the exclusion of married men getting on in years, who have been the pioneers and builders of the colony. In the Department of Labour instructions have been given that in choosing men those with large families and those most in need should have preference in selection, thus giving relief to the largest number possible within the bounds of a limited expenditure. A false impression has arisen in the minds of some of the co-operative labourers as to their position on the works. After having had some weeks or months of work they appear to consider that they have a vested right to continuous employment, and when they are discharged they write indignant letters to the Press and to the Government about " local men " being superseded by men sent from the large towns. They do not consider that others suffering hardship from want of employment should also have their turn, and take the place of those whose temporary distress was met and alleviated by work on Government roads and railways. The co-operative contracts are reported on in detail by the officers in practical charge of them viz., Mr. Blow, Under-Secretary for Public Works, and Mr. Barron, the Under-Secretary for Crown Lands. Those who wish to find out the manner, expense, &c, of working such contracts must refer to the reports of these departments. The Department of Labour only deals with the transit of men to such contracts. If the co-operative system could be extended to the operations of County Councils, Municipalities, &c, the benefit to poor men would be very great, the competitive system by tender often being of a grinding and ruinous character. Contractors of small means sometimes tender in the country districts at prices disastrous to themselves and hazardous to their workmen's wages, through having taken out false quantities, or miscalculated some item of the microscopic margin left for profit. STATE FARMS. The Hon. Mr. J. 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lands so felled and cleared. In several places, as at Pemberton and Chasland's Eiver, the scheme is working well, and small thriving communities have been established. They are already asking for schoolhouses to be erected, and showing other signs of permanent occupancy. The system at first adopted was to fell and clear bush on several parts of the future settlement, and then allow the men working thereon to ballot for the sections. This was found to be unsatisfactory, as the ballot sometimes resulted in giving a man a piece of land to which he had taken a dislike, or which was unsuitable to the conditions and number of his family. The later system adopted is to have the land roughly surveyed into sections of from 100 to 500 acres, the lots being shown by short side-lines starting from the frontage of roads already surveyed and definitely fixed. Each man, knowing approximately the position of his boundaries, can go on clearing for himself until the permanent boundaries are marked, off. The acreage is not rigidly kept to round numbers, but is fixed so as to suit, as far as possible, the needs and wishes of the occupier. A State Farm proper of about 1,000 acres has been commenced at Levin, on the Manawatu Eailway-line, Wellington Provincial District. Eifty-two men, eight women, and twenty-five children are on the ground, the men doing the preparatory work, cutting roads through the forest, felling bush for burning, planting orchards, &c, getting ready for the permanent homestead to be laid out. Another farm, to the south of Dunedin, has been selected and marked off, but it is as yet in its infancy. The men employed on the State Earm (and to be employed) are engaged on the co-operative system, and are not paid wages except in rare cases, where contract is inadmissible. The workers generally are elderly men, drafted off as to a depot, where their services can be utilised until suitable work for them can be found, if desirable. The manner in which the work is contracted for is as follows: The Manager names a price per chain for some fencing, and some half-dozen men group themselves and take it by contract at that price. Again, if the Manager requires an acre of land dug over with the spade, or firewood cut and stacked, or drains dug, for any of these things he names his price, and the workers accept it if content. As the Manager learns by experience the working abilities of the men, and is instructed to offer them a price which will insure an equivalent to a fair wage if worked at steadily, the men generally accept. Of course, continual refusal to accept work at a fair price would necessitate the removal of the discontented person from the farm. The families on the farm, if arriving destitute, are provided with tents, &c, by the Government. They will not have to pay any rent, but have to erect cottages for themselves with some small State concessions as to timber obtained on the spot. Each family has a half-acre allotted to its occupation for garden and domestic purposes. On a family leaving the farm an allowance will be made for improvements made under the approval of the Manager. This institution is by no means at present a self-governing experiment in any way. Those who wish to form such societies must do so in their own manner by means of special settlements, &c; but the State Earm is directed by an able agriculturist as Manager, who is appointed by the Government, and who has all the powers of an ordinary employer in arranging the details of his work, subject to his responsibility to the Department of Labour, and in consonance with the co-operative system. It is the intention of the Government, when, after some years, the farm has been cleared of bush and brought under skilled cultivation, to make its working purely co-operative. By that time sufficient knowledge will have been gained as to the character of the men and their families to act as a guide in determining who are to be the permanent residents. The idle and incapable will have been weeded out, and it will be possible, doubtless, to allow the farm to be worked for their own profit by a committee or council of those who have been employed for a long period. In the meantime, it is to be hoped that other farms in the rough state can be acquired and brought into good order on the same system. They would prove of service not only as outlets for the relief of the temporary congestion of the labour-market, but for the permanent settlement of families to whom town life offers neither livelihood nor inducement. There is every probability that the State farm will become a paying investment on the capital expended, as well as an outlet for a description of labour—viz., that of elderly men—which cannot find occupation elsewhere in times of pressure, but which has deserved well of the colony by previous long and hard service. THE UNEMPLOYED. There has lately been raised a cry about the increasing numbers and the many hardships of the unemployed. The Department of Labour has not relaxed its steady and strenuous effort to mitigate the trouble by supplying work to the most pressing cases. During the last year, 3,371 men, with 8,002 persons depending on them for support, have been assisted to employment. This makes the number of 9,838 men and 20,533 dependents (total, 30,371 persons) assisted during the two years and nine months of the existence of the Labour Department.* Of this year's number, 1,019 have been sent to private and 2,352 to public work on co-operative contracts. These numbers do not show the percentage of former years in favour of private employment. The causes for this are several. One is that employers do not give a generous support to the department in its attempts to provide workmen with employment. Without imputing motives for this negation of our efforts, I have to state that such is the fact. Another cause arises from the failure of the harvest in the South Island, and the consequent shortness of funds in the hands of farmers. Yet another cause is the influx of labour from Australia, the surplus of arrivals over departures exceeding 9,000. Our visitors have spread themselves over the country, and in many cases have obtained work from private employers, thus obviating the necessity of applying to the department, and in some instances causing local men to go in search of work. There is no reason to join in the selfish denunciation against immigration from the sister colonies. Most of those arriving are desirable additions to our population—sunburnt, sinewy men, whose earnest wish for work has been proved by the independent way in which they sought and found it. New Zealand

* The refunds for passages? have been made by the men at the rate of 81 per cent, on the advances.

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may be proud that, in a time of some commercial depression, and with no " boom" in land or public works, it was able to absorb industrially nearly ten thousand new-comers, besides the fifteen thousand children who annually leave our public schools, and need employment. For this number has been almost absorbed, in spite of the clamour of the noisy few (few in proportion to the general population) who have lately made themselves conspicuous by agitation in some of the urban centres. The public will have to learn to discriminate between men really anxious to work and men who only call out for work ; too many of the " hard cases " rejected by the Labour Department being among the latter class. There is also a great difference between the fifty or a hundred "unemployed" being in a certain place, as locally described, and the real number of men who would be out of work if there was not some supposed chance of public works being commenced in the district in response to persistent agitation. It is the duty of this department to ascertain the real facts, and several very delusive bubbles have been pricked by its aid. The only feature of the Australian influx which I consider wholly harmful is that, consequent on the immigration of so large a number of worthy men, there has followed a small fringe of the "sundowner" or loafer element. These men, accustomed to wander from station to station, and claim hospitality at nightfall, have tried the same system in New Zealand, until in some parts the patience of the runholders is utterly exhausted. Others, not used to the country districts, have been morally ruined by the State doles of bed and board given, without return in the shape of work, by the other colonies. While recognising the great pressure of sudden poverty under which this system was commenced, it is one of such evil principle, and its effects so utterly disastrous to the self-reliance and uprightness of the working-classes, that I trust this department will be allowed to continue to uphold its steadily-applied rule of, " Without work, nothing." However necessary charitable aid may be for the sickly and helpless, for the strong and healthy the acceptance of money or money's worth without equivalent of labour is infinitely shameful and degrading. That private citizens are now subscribing money to find work for the few workless men to do is as creditable to their brains as to their generosity. In spite of alarmist vapourings, which arise partly from interested or prejudiced motives, New Zealand's operative and industrial classes have passed through far worse crises and times of depression than they are likely to experience during the year 1894. But, although the magnitude of the "unemployed" difficulty in New Zealand has been in some places exaggerated, there is no doubt that consideration of the subject is worthy the most earnest and concentrated attention of statesmen. Our insular position, and the capabilities of extension offered by a young colony, have prevented New Zealand hitherto from feeling the effects which over-population and social pressure from beneath are exerting in the older countries. The results are just beginning to influence us, but every year will find us nearer to a more formidable danger. With respectful sincerity I affirm, as the result of much study and wide reading on the subject, that the present attitude between the employed and the employing classes is one which in its nature is impossible to long continue. Landless men will increase every year far faster than landowners, and wage-earners than men who can pay wages. Added to this is the supplanting of labour by the growing efficiency of machinery constantly added to by new inventions. In towns the labour of the skilled trades is not only suffering from boy and girl competition with adults, and from being "crowded out" from within, but is threatened in some cases by the destructive influences of forces from without. Thus, in the printing business, the introduction of linotype, doubtless to be followed by other still more exhaustive inventions, threatens to attenuate the human element in type-setting almost to extinction at no distant date. The " automatic accountant," which typewrites and adds up figures at the same time, will decimate the ranks of the clerks. In the country districts, large estates can be worked by agricultural machinery attended by a few hands, where, under the old conditions, hundreds of persons would have been employed. There can be but one result to all this—namely, the increase of " unemployed " year by year, an ever-growing strain on the resources of those able to keep on working, and, finally, national paralysis. It would be of little avail to make the above boding predictions without attempting to point out some probable mode of escape from the difficulty. The causes tending to social congestion are too many, and too vast in character, for me to attempt to describe or even to enumerate them, but they focus in one phrase—viz., "the divorce of the worker from the means of subsistence." Hold what theory we may, hide the facts in what casuistry we may, it remains that the wagepayer is the master of the wage-earner, the landholder is the master of the landless, and the owner of machinery is the master of the machinist. The point touching us most nearly, as of practical benefit, is the desirability of getting a large part of the population into occupation of small holdings. It is an absurdity to supposothat New Zealand can be called peopled at present, with its whole population less than that of a single first-class English town. Great Britain, with its millions of inhabitants, does not contain anything like the number its soil is capable of supporting. Perhaps I may be allowed to quote the words of an authority on this subject:— If the soil of the United Kingdom were cultivated only as it was thirty years ago, 24,000,000 people, instead of 17,000,000, could live on home-grown food; and that culture, while giving occupation to at least 750,000 men, would give nearly 3,000,000 wealthy home customers to the British manufacturers. If the 1,590,000 acres on which wheat was grown thirty years ago—only these and not more—were cultivated as the fields are cultivated now in England under the allotment system, which gives on the average forty bushels per acre, the United Kingdom would grow food for 27,000,000 inhabitants out of 35,000,000. If the now cultivated area of the United Kingdom (85,000 square miles) were cultivated as the soil is cultivated, on the average, in Belgium, the United Kingdom would have food for 37,000,000 inhabitants, and it might export agricultural produce, without ceasing to manufacture, so as freely to supply all the needs of a wealthy population ; and, finally, if the population of this country came to be doubled, all that would be required for producing the food for 70,000,000 inhabitants would be to cultivate the soil as it is cultivated in the best farms of this country, in Lombardy, and in Flanders, and to cultivate the meadows, which at present lie almost unproductive around the big cities, in the same way as the neighbourhoods of Baris are cultivated

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by the Paris maraichers. All these are not fancy dreams, but mere realities—nothing but modest conclusions from what we see round about us, without any allusion to the agriculture of the future.* —Prince Kropotkin, " The Coming Beign of Plenty," Nineteenth Century. It is true that farms, say, of 200 acres, cannot be worked so economically as large farms of 1,000 acres; but the former have to employ labour, and do not compare with allotments. Lord Carrington has eight hundred tenants of small plots of land around the town of High Wycombe, Bucks, and these get £10 an acre of produce, while farmers only get £7 per acre off the same land by plough cultivation. Passing over the question of injustice to the labourer in making him pay such unequal and (apparently) excessive rent, it is obvious that the benefit to be derived from the thorough nature of the system pursued on the allotments shows its superiority to that of the larger farms, or such rents could not be paid at all. When New Zealand is farmed in such a manner as Lombarcly or Elanders is, it will support a population compared with which the number of our present inhabitants will be but a drop in the ocean of the future census returns. The division of the land among many people is, I am aware, but a temporary measure, and will not ultimately settle the " unemployed" difficulty. That difficulty rests not upon landholding, nor upon any one division of the subject —it is an effect of the whole social organization as at present constituted ; but, as the future will bring its own wisdom to meet its own troubles, we may evade the most pressing of threatened evils by turning our energies to the one subdivision of the subject— viz., settling the land with many landholders. There is no action of such moment, no issue so important, no legislation so necessary, as that dealing with the question whether the citizens of New Zealand are to be employed or unemployed in the near future. SWEATING. Although in New Zealand there is no "sweating," as the word is understood in London or New York, still there is a growing tendency in the larger towns towards systems of working which bear such close resemblance to " sweating" that there is little appreciable difference. So soon as piecework is given out by employers who are careless where the material is manipulated, so soon does one of the worst sides of " sweating" appear. The employer who cares for nothing but for making money finds " home-work" extremely convenient. Such employers are not worried by Inspectors requiring' alterations as to ventilation or sanitation; they avoid the payment of factory fees ; they can play off one worker against another to lower rates, and in times of pressure can insist on their victims working almost night and day to get orders fulfilled. Unfortunately, too many of the pieceworkers play into the hands of such men, in order to evade the law. These belong to two classes. One is that of those who are only thus employed in a desultory way. Some married woman, whose time is only partially filled with domestic duties, wishes to make a small addition to her income, either to eke out her husband's wages or to have some money of her own. She therefore gets piecework from an employer, and works at it in her own home. She would consider any interference with her right to do this as an outrageous breach of the liberty of the subject; but, as she is not absolutely dependent upon such work for bread-and-butter, she can "undercut" the prices and take away the work from those whose sole support it is. The other class consists of people whose only means of subsistence is the decreasing pittance they obtain by competing against one another. These fear any interference, because, bare of all comfort as their lives are, they just manage to keep body and soul together in some way by their small earnings, while without them they can see nothing ahead but the pauper's home or the grave. Girls, too, whose parents keep them in food and shelter sometimes get dress and pocket-money by such home-work. The effect is a continuous and steady depression in prices, down to starvation-point. Eespectable factory-owners, who have to provide rents, fuel, decent buildings, &c, and whose workpeople have short hours, cannot compete in cheapness with those who work under sweating conditions. The only general remedy is to make all workers, if possible, perform their duties in properly-conducted establishments. Some of the homes in which work is done at present are mere dens of dirt and pestilence, from which germs of contagion are scattered broadcast among the public purchasing the goods. If each employer or shopkeeper had to keep a record of the names and addresses of all persons to whom piecework is given out, and if the Inspector of Eactories had the right to visit and examine any house in which piecework is executed, much good would result. Public feeling has, however, a great deal to answer for in this manner. So long as the wives and daughters of working-men will buy for cheapness alone, regardless where or how such cheapness is made possible, so long will they continue to sap the interests of their own brothers and sisters, and

* The above quotation having alluded to the farming of land in small allotments, I will add an " up-to-date " statement concerning labourers' allotments in England at the present moment. In two English counties the following rentals are obtained :—

County and Parish. Tjarge Farms : Rent per Acre per Annum. Allotments: Rent per Acre per Annum Remarks. Wiltshire — Bronmam Bishop's Cannings Milton Lilborne Aldborne Potterne Wildford Charlton Figheldean ierkshire— Compton Beedon ... Ilsley Waltham Lamborne Woolstone Wantage Appleford 14s. 9d. to 22s. 6d. 8s. 4d. to 13s. 3d. 6s. to 14s. 6s. 6d. to 13s. 6d. 25s. 6d. 5s. Od. to 13s. 3d. 10s. 2d. to 14s. 6s. 6d. to 12s. £3 £2 5s. to £2 10s. £4 to £0 £2 10s. to £3 12s. £4 10s. to £8. £3. £2 0s. 8d. £2 13s. 4d. Allotments—31 acres in 1-rood lots; 25 acres in 2-rood lots. 101 acres in allotments. 9s. Od. to 12s. 10s. to 12s. 10s. to 12s. 3d. 8s. 6d. to 12s. 8s. to lis. 7d. 7s. 6d. 15s. to 26s. IDs. 2d. to 31s. 3d. £2. £2 12s. 4d. £2 13s. 4d. £2. £2 10s. to £3. £4. £4. £4.

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ultimately injure themselves. In some of the older countries goods are now sold bearing the label of the trade-union or the Knights of Labour, thus showing that the articles were manufactured by workpeople to whom fair wages were paid. This is the "reverse of the boycott." Boycotting is perhaps unjust in suggesting "Do not deal with such-and-such persons"; but its reverse says "Deal with this man, because he pays his workers honest wages": this is surely fair enough. A far more practical mode of warfare against " sweating" is the mode legally adopted lately in the State of New York —namely, by causing every garment or article not made in a registered factory to bear a label on which is printed " Tenement made "; a heavy punishment following the removal of the ticket before sale. If, then, any member of the general public wishes to court infection or to assist in " sweating," he or she can purchase such labelled articles. The Army Clothing Factory in Great Britain has shielded 1,500 people from the sweaters; and if its operations were extended to make clothes for the navy, militia, and volunteers, Customs, Post Office, &c, it would do immense service. Probably it would be well if something of the sort should be established in New Zealand, but if this is considered undesirable there should certainly be substituted the "fair-wages" clause in all public contracts. The British Board of Trade has the following clause in its contracts : — The contractor undertakes that all garments included in this contract shall be made up in his own factory, and that no work shall be done at the homes of the workpeople. Any infringement of this condition, if proved to the satisfaction of the President of the Board of Trade, shall render the contractor liable to a penalty not exceeding £100 for each offence. A still more explicit and stringent form of this clause has been adopted by the London County Council. It is as follows :— The contractors hereby expressly undertake and agree with the Council that all work and labour matters and things whatever under this contract shall be executed, done, and completed by the contractors upon their own premises, in ; under a penalty of £50, to be recovered by the Council for every breach, as often as the same shall happen, in case of default by the contractors ; or the said amount of £50 may in every case be retained by them from any moneys due or which may become due to the contractors from the Council under this or any other contract with the contractors. If, by legislation, some similar clause in all tenders could be enforced in New Zealand, it would be a great advantage not only to operatives, but to factory-owners and to mercantile men, who, while naturally wishing to benefit themselves, dislike to do so at the cost of workpeople beaten down in the competitive struggle for existence. Another benefit would accrue to the industrial classes if the Government and all local governing bodies (including Municipalities) would insist upon an expert officer naming a price which would be fair to the contractor for his work, and that no tender which was 10 per cent, below or 15 per cent, higher than the price named by the expert should be accepted. This would do away with the principle of " Lowest tender accepted," a system which has done more to ruin struggling men and "sweat" workers into degradation than any other invention of modern barbarism. TRUCK. A useful extension of the principle of the Truck Act, which prevents wages being paid in goods or "truck," could be applied to other forms of payment beside that of wages. Those who remember the bondage in which labour was held by contractors and storekeepers supplying goods on unending accounts will comprehend the desirability of others beside wage-earners being delivered from this form of servitude. Kauri-gum diggers, for instance, complain that, once in the power of a storekeeper, they must continue to supply gum to him, and him only, at his price, and take stores from him at any price. In the rural districts, also, farmers, and especially farmers' wives, having once got into debt at a store, never see cash again, as they are compelled to sell their butter, eggs, &c, to the storekeeper, and take his goods in return, the former at under and the latter at over market-rates, the penalty being an action in Court for debt if they deal with any one else. Higher in the social scale this system is also in force, advances being made for grain and produce by wealthy mercantile houses, which, by thus buying and selling at their own rates, milk their cow with both hands. It would be an immense boon to many if the legislation which commands that all wages should be paid in cash regardless of any contra-account should insist that all business transactions should take place in money, without allowing any set-off for goods supplied. Many poor people, not understanding accounts, or not being in a position to demand inspection of accounts, are now unjustly treated : they handle no money from year's end to year's end, and are practically prisoners; while to the storekeeper the system is greatly provocative of dishonesty. MASTERS AND APPRENTICES. Some amendment of the present Act appears to be necessary, as it has become out of touch with the times. The provisions of the Act have been framed on lines similar to those of English Acts relating to the enforced apprenticeship of pauper children, and are not applicable to the modern conditions of colonial life. In the skilled trades there is long and bitter complaint as to the eviction of adults from employment in order to make room for the cheaper labour of boys and girls. An evil growing out of this is the insufficient training in their business which these children receive, since they are not apprentices in the strict sense of the word, and they do not receive proper tuition to enable them to become competent operatives. In the plumbing trade, for instance, sometimes a shop employs many boys and only one or two journeymen, with the result that the public suffer great loss through incompetent workmanship. In certain large dressmaking establishments, also, the head dressmaker receives such a disproportionately high salary that her cost to the firm has to be made up by employing bevies of young girls at " sweating" rates. These girls could not keep themselves without parental help; and by working at low wages they injure self-supporting girls and women. The outcry from numerous people who suffer from boy and girl competition with adults takes the form of entreating the Government to legislate in two directions—viz., first, that all boys and

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girls working at skilled trades shall be properly apprenticed, thus doing away with casual labour; secorfd, that the ratio of apprentices to adult workers in each trade should be regulated by enactment. It is probable that if such suggestions can be carried into effect the present body of skilled workmen will benefit greatly, although it intensifies the present difficulty of trying to find employment for our growing population of young people. CHARITABLE AID. I again beg to urge consideration of charitable-aid organization, and strongly advocate the centralisation and arrangement of information as to money spent in alms-giving, and Benevolent Society work generally. Without suggesting withdrawal of funds from local dissemination and management, attention should be given to the " overlap" in their distribution. At present, especially in the centres of population, some undeserving people are receiving relief from several charitable societies at the same time, while far more deserving cases go unnoticed through the independence and right-minded pride of the sufferers. With information gathered through the factory branch of my department, I am acquainted with cases where people partly supported by charity take piecework to their homes at prices which "undercut" those workers who will not accept alms. What is needed is an organized system of interchange of information, extending even to the names and descriptions of those receiving assistance, the amounts spent, and, if possible, the results. The expense of formulating such information, and federalising the provincial societies, would not be great, while the waste of public and private funds would be very much checked. Some appear horrified if mention is made of a poor-rate in New Zealand, but they forget, or are in ignorance, that a partial poor-rate is already paid through municipal and local levies. Private beneficence is an excellent thing morally (especially when not paid as insurance premium against social evils intensified by the donors), but at present it exists as a heavy tax levied on a few generous persons, in order that others may escape their due share of poor-rate. If it is the duty of the State to defend its citizens against plunder, or against death by assassination, it is also its duty to see that none are killed by starvation. This responsibility is not to be shifted from the concrete body of citizens on to the shoulders of a few kind-hearted individuals, whose funds are now continually depleted and drained through subscription-lists proffered on every side. The moral point is clear, the immoral one painfully apparent. THE DEPARTMENTAL POSITION. The Department of Labour has suffered since its commencement from two sources of weakness. It was intended to promote decentralisation of workers and to collect industrial statistics. It has only been able very partially to do either, for the following reasons: — 1. Decentralisation. —Not only is it desirable to induce men to proceed to country districts to work, but to keep them there, if possible, and engage them on productive lands. It is like pouring water into a bottomless cask to keep shifting men out from towns into the country while offering them no inducement to stay there. If a married man goes to work in the bush, leaving his wife and family behind him in town, he is certain to gravitate homewards again. He does so in compliance with a natural and commendable instinct, against which the department could exert no influence, even if it wished to do so. It was understood, at first that for the men sent away small allotments of land w rould be provided near their work, so that the wives and families could be removed thereto, and make homes in the country. Had this been adhered to the scheme would have been an undeniable success; but, unfortunately, the Government has not been able to fulfil such requirement: the men have been sent out, and, except in a few cases, the land is not forthcoming. Available land has not been obtainable in the vicinity of works; private holders have gained possession of so much of the country that Crown lands suitable for cutting up into village homesteads or small farms could not be obtained. When the Government, either by legislation or by purchase of Native lands, is able to complete the system which this department was founded in part to carry out, then for the first time we shall have a new field for energy in meeting the labour question fully and completely. 2. Industrial Statistics. —The main object in forming the Labour Department was the collection of industrial statistics. Lor this purpose also were instituted the State Bureaux of Labour and the Central Department of Labour in the United States, and these have been followed by the creation of similar offices in every civilised country. On the importance of such an object it is unnecessary to dilate ; it has been generally acknowledged that few things are so vital to national well-being as an exhaustive comprehension of all questions bearing on rent, cost of materials, tariffs, exports, imports, hours of work, age and sex of employes, causes of depression in trade, factory legislation, &c. It has been found impossible in any country to get in reliable and trustworthy information except in two ways—either by legally-compulsory answers to circulars or by legally-compulsory answers to questions of itinerant agents. Eeliance on voluntary answers to circulars is sheer folly, and this department has suffered from experience in the universal disappointment which has attended the system elsewhere. Except for factories (where the records and information are compulsorily furnished), it is hopeless to expect any reliable statistics to be furnished by this department while its present status continues. It must have legal power to collect its statistics, or be silent. In other countries even private societies and trade-unions are spending money and energy in acquiring a real knowledge of their financial and industrial standing-ground. The following quotation will show that trade-unions in the Old Country appreciate the advantage of the scientific position when they attempt to cope with other powerful organizations and with the vicissitudes of commercial life:— But it is none the less true that in the cotton trade, as in other trades, the factors which determine the profits are also those which regulate wages. The officers of the trade-unions have now learnt to keep a careful watch over the movements of these factors, particularly the fluctuations in the price of raw material and the price of the finished

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product in the markets of the world. The pigeon-holes which cover the walls of a trado-union office are full of trade statistics. The results of these observations are embodied in confidential annual reports circulated by the unions amongst their members, and dealing with the condition of trade. I have one of them now beforo me, from the Weavers' Association of North and North-east Lancashire. In these reports the rise and fall of the figure called the " margin " play a leading part. It is obtained by subtracting the price of raw cotton (calculated from the five leading sorts) from the price of yarn (of eleven kinds), or of calico (of twenty-three kinds). Thus there are two different margins, one for the spinners and one for the weavers, which show the relative position of the two industries. Now, these investigations have consequences of the utmost importance. On the strength of them the leaders of the operatives only put forward demands which they are sure of being able to carry through ; while they quietly submit to the demands of the employers when they see that resistance would be useless.—Dr. Von Schulze-Gaevernitz's " Social Peace : a Study of the Trade-union Movement in England." New Zealand will be unable to compete with other and better-informed countries if she remains in the dark as to the cost of production and the sources of supply among her own people. To give the Department of Labour a legal status would cost the taxpayer no more than at present, but would enable valuable information to be compiled. To expect statistics from a department not empowered to collect them is futile. The Journal of the Department of Labour continues to be issued, and, judging'by many letters received, is appreciated by the industrial classes. As editor I endeavour to provide, in addition to statistical information, extracts or reprints of articles by clever thinkers on social or labour questions, and also portray how modern problems are being treated in other countries, and under differing circumstances. My departmental officers have done excellently in the different branches of their duties. Mr. Mackay has carried on factory inspection as well as his work as Chief Clerk, and has shown unfailing tact and energy. Mr. Lomas, in Christchurch, and Mr. Ferguson, in Auckland, also deserve praise for the manner in which they have carried out difficult duties without either laxity or harshness. Of the other factory officers I have spoken in another paragraph. Mrs. Grace Neil, our first woman Inspector of Factories, is doing valuable work, but her services are not included in the period covered by this report. FACTORIES. The general state of New Zealand factories during the year has been one of high efficiency. There have been few fluctuations in the skilled-labour market, and, although towards the end of the (financial) year there are complaints of slack trade in commercial circles, the depression has made no marked change in the conditions of industrial life. As a general rule, the factories and workshops of New Zealand are wholesome places in which to labour, and the health of the workpeople will compare favourably with that of any other class in any country. We have been very free from strikes or trade difficulties of any kind, and the general feeling between employers and employed is as friendly as can possibly be expected. There is little friction over the working of the Factories Act, as most of the employers lend willing aid to carry out its provisions, and the few who attempt to evade them suffer in their good name among the workpeople they employ, and from the efforts of Inspectors to convict. Few countries have so complete and flexible a Factories Act as New Zealand, but there are some weak places in the Act which have been exposed in its administration, and which can be bettered by amendments. These I have set out at length in another part of this report, which also contains a list of convictions under the Act. The subject of laundries is one needing some concerted action on the part of their owners. It is impossible that laundries should be excluded from the operation of the Act. In Great Britain the reports of Inspectors detail cases of grave hardship and suffering endured by women working in laundries, which in that country are not under the Factory Acts. Experience in this colony also proves the necessity of inspection. The low rate of wages, the insanitary conditions, and the long hours worked in some establishments before the Act made itself felt by controlling the business as a " handicraft," are sufficient reasons for determining to uphold the application of such a law. On the other hand, in the seaport towns, where most of the important laundries are placed, the work is of a highly intermittent and spasmodic character. For example, the arrival of one or two large steamers on Friday night or Saturday morning, with a quantity of linen to be washed before Monday, necessitates the full staff being employed on the Saturday (now half-holiday) if the work is to be done at all. Perhaps Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday may be slack days, or, again, they may be busy days. It seems, therefore, hard to tie down the proprietors of such a business to give their employes a half-holiday on any certain afternoon ; but if this be not done there is little doubt that a hardworking class of women (whose standing position for many hours at their duty is excessively exhausting) will be debarred from that period of rest and relaxation which the State demands for all other working-women. The only way out of the difficulty is for the owners of laundries in each town to assemble and debate among themselves the day which in that locality is most suitable for the half-holiday, and then petition the Town Council to set apart that particular half-day for their trade. If a narrow spirit of competition forbids such discussion and agreement, laundry-owners must be content to bear the annoyance and loss of the Saturday afternoon. The sections of the Act dealing with dining-rooms in factories are difficult to administer. In the larger establishments, setting apart a room as a dining-room is comparatively easy, because ground-space is procurable and money forthcoming. In towns, however, where small firms carry on their businesses in two or three rooms, hired or leased in some building not originally intended to be used as a factory, the difficulties are great. If the dining-room is insisted on, it sometimes puts the employer to grave inconvenience, as another room in the same building, or adjacent thereto, may not be procurable, and he is therefore in the dilemma of either shifting from the premises to some other place, or of breaking the law by not complying with the provisions of the Factory Act. This is a serious position, as suitable premises cannot be found at short notice, and a change of locality sometimes means loss in business. The sections of the Act are, nevertheless, only proper and right for the protection of the health of the operatives, and must be obeyed.

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The same difficulty meets us in regard to the sanitary clauses. Provision for ventilation and for closet-accommodation is sometimes, in leased buildings, of a most primitive character. We must hope that, in time, as the local industries strengthen and mature, it will be possible for all employers to conduct their operations in suitable buildings, and not have, as at present, to choose between an infringement of the law protecting the health of their workpeople and the interests of landlords, who desire as few expensive alterations as possible in their premises. It would be a benefit to wage-earners, especially in the boot-trade, if wages were paid weekly instead of fortnightly. Those men and women who are not good managers get very pinched for means in the middle of the second week. The fortnightly custom of payment also tends to foster the credit system and the growth of long store accounts, which deprive working-men of the benefits of cash-payments, and often give them a long struggle with debt if bad times ensue. I beg to present to your notice my appreciation of the valuable services rendered to this department by the unpaid Inspectors of Factories. Their work has been done in addition to other duties as police officers, Clerks of Courts, &c. It would give great encouragement to them if the Government would make some pecuniary recognition of the manner in which they perform their duties. Although it is desirable that the Labour Department should perform its work with as much economy as possible, still, its efficiency would be greatly enhanced should material appreciation be awarded to deserving officers who have shown attention and earnestness in carrying out the provisions of the Factories and Shop-assistants Acts. THE SHOPS AND SHOP-ASSISTANTS ACT. Last year's report referred at some length to the subject of the difficulty found in carrying out the Act in its present form. There has been no reason presented by experience for altering such opinion. Nothing but a supervision so rigid as to be unbearable to employers would serve to enforce the existing law; and this cannot be used. Only a general closing of all shops on certain half-holidays will be effectual. There appears to be a gradual breaking-up of the early-closing movement in the towns. This insidious, attack on the working-hours of shop-assistants is initiated by the small shopkeeper, who keeps open later and later, thus dragging larger establishments into the evil fashion. In some of the towns of the colony the number of tenements and converted dwelling-houses pretending to be shops is quite phenomenal; and they are an unhealthy symptom in industrial life, as their owners produce nothing of value to the community, and live in continual struggle with debt and semistarvation. Their existence serves to embarrass legitimate traders, and lengthen unhealthily the hours of commercial labour. If the present law be not altered in favour of a shop-closing Act, there are some minor points requiring attention and amendment. 1. The sanitary sections of the Factories Act should be applied to shops. The ventilation, the degree of cleanliness, and the closet-accommodation require inspection. 2. The length of a working-day should be specified for women and young persons. These should not be required to work for more than ten hours and a half in any one day, nor for more than four hours and a half without an interval for a meal. 3. The onus of giving the half-holiday and seeing it enforced should lie on the employer. Some shopkeepers now say, "My assistant could have taken the half-holiday if he had liked; I never stopped him." It is unfair that the assistant should be made to ask for what is his legal right. 4. A proper dinner interval, say of an hour, should be set aside for meals. In some establishments it is well known that even the short time allowed is trenched upon if a customer appears. Far better health would be the portion of shop-assistants if they could get a brisk walk in the open air at mid-day. FACTORIES (AMENDMENTS). The portions of the Factories Acts which require amendment are as follows :— The Acts now in force define a factory or workroom as a place in which three or more persons are engaged, &c, &c. It has been found, in the course of experience, that, although it would be undesirable to require a fee from the occupier of any workroom in which less than three persons were employed for hire or reward, yet the supervision of Inspectors over such small establishments is necessary. The sanitary arrangements, especially as to ventilation, are in some respects destructive to health, while there is no check on the long hours worked by women and boys. In one case, a shoemaker in a. country town has two lads working for him, and these boys are kept to their stools for twelve hours a day, even their food being eaten without leaving their place of labour. It is an imperfect law which allows two young persons to be killed with overwork and bad air, but which steps in to prevent three being so treated. In small dressmaking establishments the hours worked are far too long, and the air-space not sufficient; but the number of persons employed is not sufficient to bring the employer under the present Act. The interpretation of "employer " requires more strictness of definition, as in some cases, where three or more persons are working together, they evade the Act by styling themselves partners (as " Brown and Company '•'). The word " occupier'' should be limited to one person, including husband or wife of occupier, but excluding relations, partners, &c, &c. In consequence of a decision in Court given against the Inspector when suing under present Act, it is desirable that it should be declared distinctly that factory certificates must be renewed annually. An establishment commencing business after the month of January (the date for receiving annual fees) should pay the fees as if working the whole year. An increase in the number of persons employed after the annual registration fee has been paid should be reported to the Inspector by the employer, and the extra fee (if any) paid. Mention has been made elsewhere of the desirability of introducing the "label" system for articles made in private houses and unregistered factories. There can be little doubt that such a 2—H. 6.

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system would not only help to protect the poorer classes from the effects of unlimited competition, but deliver the general public from many chances of spreading infectious diseases. There is need of preventive legislation in regard to unsecured and unprotected machinery. At present sufficient safeguards are not provided against the occurrence of accidents, as the section of the Act which brings factory machinery and apparatus under " The Inspection of Machinery Act, 1882," is not specific enough to be applicable to the different varieties of accidents which may occur. In regard to the cleansing of inside walls of factories and workshops, and their being painted or lime-washed, the occupier should be compelled to bring satisfactory proof of the time when such painting or lime-washing was last executed. There is at present no section of the Factory Act dealing with the question of providing fire-escapes for those working in the upper stories of lofty buildings. This very necessary provision requires to be legislated for before some terrible sacrifice of human life draws attention to the subject. Dressmakers, tailoresses, and others are now at work on the upper floors of large shops, which are often filled with light and inflammable materials, the only means of egress being through dark, steep, and crooked stairways, which, when filled with smoke, would become impassable. The question of working overtime is a difficult one, as it is desirable that some elasticity should be given to the working-hours in certain trades at some seasons of the year. This is wished for both by the employers and by the workers themselves, the latter being glad now and then to make a few extra shillings. The desire is, however, not always consonant with conditions necessary to health ; and, moreover, the overtime worked must always be arranged to suit the convenience of the employer, not the wage-earner. It is, therefore, beneficial that the Inspector should have some margin wherein his individual knowledge of the circumstances should be given play, and that he should adjust permission to work overtime to the particular case. So small are the wages of some of the employes (such as those of girls in the lower grades of dressmaking) that the pay per hour of overtime is almost infinitesimal, and by no means rewards the exhaustion produced by too long hours of monotonous work. Therefore a minimum of overtime-payment per hour should be legally fixed. Several attempts have been made to evade the section of the Act which provides payment of wages to'women and young persons during five statutory holidays of the year. The effect of a judgment in Court proved the necessity for a review of this section, as the penalty for a breach of it was not deemed to be expressed in the Act. It is desirable that the payment of wage-earners should be secured in the strictest manner, in order that the spirit of the original enactment should be carried into effect. The factories in which women and youths are engaged should be closed on holidays and half-holidays, to prevent wage-earners being compelled to do piecework therein after their wagehours are completed. It is well that the schedule of fees should be reconsidered. At present there is a sudden jump from ss. to a guinea, as the inclusion of a single worker over the ten, for which the lowei rate is fixed, compels the payment of the higher fee. An intermediate ten-shilling fee would be more just to employers, and would sometimes prevent the rejection of the additional (No. 11) operative. CONVICTIONS UNDER FACTORIES ACTS, Ist APRIL, 1893, TO 31st MARCH, 1894. Auckland. —26th April, 1893 —clothing-factory; working boys after 1 p.m. on Saturday; fined 55., and 16s. costs. 26th April, 1893 —tailor; working girls on Saturday half-holiday; fined 10s., and £1 18s. costs. 13th May, 1893 —clothing-factory ; non-payment of wages on Good Friday and Easter Monday ; fined 55., and £1 Is. costs.* 13th May, 1893 —shirt-factory; non-payment of wages on Good Friday and Easter Monday ; fined ss. 31st October, 1893 —tailor ; employing girls after 1 p.m. on Saturday; fined 55., and £1 12s. costs. 31st October, 1893 —bootmaker; employing boy after 1 p.m. on Saturday; fined 155., and 10s. costs. Wellington. —l3th February, 1894—laundry ; women working on half-holiday ; fined £1, and £1 10s. costs. 27th February, 1894 —laundry; women working on half-holiday; fined 55., and £1 Bs. costs. Christchurch. —llth December, 1893—bootmaker; girls at work after 8.15 p.m.; fined Is., and £1 Bs. costs. 10th January, 1894 —cycle-maker; youth at work on Saturday afternoon; fined 10s., and £1 Bs. costs. 10th January, 1894 —biscuit-maker; girls at work on Saturday afternoon; fined 10s., and £1 Bs. costs. 10th January, 1894—dressmaker; girls at work on Saturday afternoon ; fined 10s., and £1 Bs. costs. 10th January, 1894 —pickle-maker; women and boys at work on Saturday afternoon ; fined 10s., and £1 Bs. costs. 10th January, 1894—tailoress; women and boy at work on Saturday afternoon; fined 10s., and £1 Bs. costs. Dunedin. —lsth April, 1893—dressmaker ; employing women on Good Friday; fined £2, and 9s. costs. 24th August, 1893—bdxmaker ; youth employed on Saturday afternoon; fined 10s., and lis. costs. 11th January, 1894 —cordial-maker ; employing hands on Saturday afternoon; fined £2, * and £1 15s. costs. 11th January, 1894 —cordial-maker; employing hands on Saturday afternoon ; fined £1, and 17s. 6d. Costs. Oamaru. —lsth January, 1894—tailor; employing girls on half-holiday; fined 55., and 7s. costs. Dargaville. —lsth May, 1893—sawmill-proprietor; employing boys on Good Friday; fined £4, and £1 7s. costs. Invercargill. —l2th October, 1893—dressmaker; employing girls on Saturday evening; fined 2s. 6d., and 7s. 6d. costs.

* The employer attempted to evade section 58 of " The Factories Act, 1891." This section states that women and young persons who are wage-earners are entitled to be paid for certain statutory holidays, Good Friday and Easter Monday being included. The employer had not paid wages for these days. The Resident Magistrate, Dr. Giles, decided that there had been a breach of the Act; but an appeal was made by the defendant. Mr. Justice Conolly quashed the conviction, on the ground that the Act did not state a penalty for this offence, but that the employes could recover as for a debt. The learned Judge pronounced that' section 61, which prescribes a penalty for not complying with certain provisions of the Act, did not apply to section 58.

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Waimate South. —2lst December, 1893 —tailor; employing girl on half-holiday ; fined 25., and lis. costs. 21st December, 1893—tailor; employing girl on half-holiday; fined 25., and 7s. costs. CONVICTIONS UNDER "THE SHOPS AND SHOP-ASSISTANTS ACT, 1892," Ist APRIL, 1893, TO 31st MARCH, 1894. Auckland. —l6th January, 1894 —grocer ; not granting half-holiday in week to shop-assistant; fined 10s., and £1 12s. costs. Wellington. —26th January, 1894 —pork-butcher ; not granting half-holiday to shop-assistant; fined £2, and £1 Bs. costs. 26th January, 1894—pork-butcher ; not granting half-holiday to shopassistants ; defied law ; fined £5, and £1 10s. costs. Dunedin. —2Bth December, 1893 —stationer; not granting half-holiday to shop-assistants; fined 10s., and £1 10s. costs. 11th January, 1894—fancy warehouseman; employing women more than fifty-eight hours in week (four charges); fined £4, and £3 10s. costs. 11th January, 1894 —fancy warehouseman ; employing women more than fifty-eight hours in week (twelve charges); fined £12, and £11 10s. costs. Oamaru. —3rd December, 1893 —draper; not granting half-holiday to shop-assistants ; fined Is., and lis. costs. Gisborne. — 3rd November, 1893 — draper; not granting half-holiday to shop-assistants; fined Is. LIST OP ACCIDENTS REPORTED DURING YEAR 1893-94. Carterton (2). —Two men were killed in Carterton. These, however, were really not factory hands, but drivers. One man was killed by carrying harness under the driving-belt, which caught and killed him; the other went to stop his horses, which had bolted ; he was knocked down, and a truck passed over him, killing him. Ghristchurch (8). —Five of a slight nature occurred at foundries and engineers' workshops, and were purely accidental. A lad employed at packing-factory was slightly injured by falling down the lift. A bootmaker got his finger caught in -cog-wheel of the cutting-press, and sustained loss of middle'finger of the left hand. A greaser at freezing-works got right hand lacerated in refrigeratingmachine. Dunedin (10).-^A lad had a finger bruised in rollers of biscuit-machine ; slightly injured. A lad (cabinetmaker) lost his thumb and forefinger of left hand in planing-machine ; lad's own fault. A lad had thumb of right hand fractured by being caught in wheel of mixing-machine. A man broke his leg by falling off a ladder. A sawyer lost part of left thumb by a circular saw. A lad at ropewalk got his foot injured by being caught in spikes of drawing-machine. A man got leg and foot burned by upsetting a ladle of molten metal which he was carrying. A lad got slight wound in hand caused by a piece of steel he was grinding slipping. A foreman miller caught in belt, and was killed ; Coroner's jury gave verdict of " Accidental death." A man employed at a steamsaw had hand and face cut slightly. Invercargill (3). —A man at ropewalk got left arm injured by slipping; purely accidental. A lad at wire-factory got right hand and head scorched slightly at a fire. A man at wire-factory injured by a pulley coming off its axle and striking him in stomach whilst he was engaged fastening it. Nelson (1). —A lad lost hand in biscuit-factory. Wellington (8). —A machinist at printing-office lost a finger through being caught in the rollers; purely accidental. A lad employed at a saw-mill got two fingers cut slightly by coming in contact with the saw. A man working a band-saw got two fingers of right hand slightly cut by coming in contact with saw. A foreman at printing-office got thumb of left hand slightly crushed by incautiously putting his hand on the machine whilst in motion. Two lads at an upholstering factory got right hands slightly cut by placing them in the teasing-machine whilst in motion. A rather serious accident to an old man, a pattern-maker, by bringing his right elbow in contact with back part of band-saw; purely accidental, as all the necessary guards are provided on the saw. A machinist at printing-office had his right arm broken by being caught in the fly-wheel of an Otto gas-engine ; purely accidental. Total accidents reported from the whole colony, 32—viz., Christchurch, 8; Carterton, 2; Dunedin, 10 ; Invercargill, 3 ; Nelson, 1; Wellington, 8.

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Table showing Statistics concerning Persons assisted by the Department of Labour, from the 1st April, 1893, to the 31st March, 1894. By Trades.

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Miscellaneou s— Miners Surveyors Farm-labourers ■ .. Scrub-cutters Sailors Printers Labourers* Engineers Pressers Drapers Waterproof - m a n u f acturers Bushmen Plaxmillers Gardeners Shepherds Photographers Storemen Ironworkers Civil engineers Blacksmiths Eabbiters Ploughmen Waiters Chainmen Ooachsmiths Shearers Tailors Platelayers Warehousemen Teachers Boilermakers Quarrymen Basketmakers Tinsmiths Maltsters 1 18 •• 3 *2 2 103 1 i 1 5 1 1 2 162 1 1 1 *• *2 48 •■! 11 5 •I 8 335 5 *5 4 63 •• 1 1 7 1 1 233 2 1 2 1 66 *2 2 "i 32 ** •• 2 "i 2 2 334 19 12 15 80J :•• "3 3 1 7 1 1 4 257 2 1 2 1 66 *2 *8 ■• 2 i 538 5 i 24 i i *38 "l "l 4 1 2 •• 4 662 2 9 **3 2125 24 "l '90 "5 "7 6 1 3 3 325 3 i 13 i •• 1 875 4 •• *49 "l **2 11 3 7 12 21174 9 "i 62 "i "l •■ 4 1187 7 "l *60 "2 "2 6 1 2 •• 13 •• 1 *2 *2 5 251 1 i '3 1 1 1 1 3 66 1 •• i 4 i *io 2 9 5 5 6 ii 23 1099 8 ■■ " *4 i i 1 1 "■ 3 60 1 • • " *2 5 257 1 •• *2 *3 'l 1 1 2 10 1 6 18 1 6 .15 1 "3 26 775 13 •• 1 *2 8 310 2 •■ 2 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 9 '7 366 •• 51 *2 10 i • • 5 '3 "2 195 2 33 11 1 56 ••: 4 1693 1 •• 253 20 10 1 11 2 5 "i *2 95 2 •■ 10 466 • • 'I 83 1 224 *4 i 10784 6 ■• 107J 94 6 15 "i 2 547 2 •• 84 11 3 14 •■ 25 *2 140 ■ • 40 52 •• •• 125 15 743 •• •• - *2 192 • •• 65 •• "l 45 '2 339 .. •• •• •■ "' *2 184 ■• 63 •■ *8 40 "6 2 7 1398: 7 "2 1 94 **6 1 1 2 50 2 10 1 3 9 1137 6 1 1 120 15 2 1 3 1 11 4 2 4 j 201 23 15 31 5995 38 "6 4 416 22 24 5 5 13 13 2 14 1 3 6 713: 8 1 3 1 80 15 3 1 3 1 11 1 4 2 3 77 "2 2 10 1822 5 ■• 134 **5 1 1 2 81J 3 18 40 ! 4644 \i 47 ik 15 250| 114 20 1 6 18 5 6 43 4 ii 10 24 84 27 88 2 15 1 5 16 13 1 3 1 212 15 8 1 1 1 5 1 29 1 4 2 6 1 1 4 18 1 3 2 i 50 *2 "1 *5 27 2 2 3 1 4 1 1 *2 '7 4 5 1 4 1 2 18 77 2 2 *18 1 *3 3 • • *6 3 '4 "*8 12 *5 "7 15 i2 '9 i *38 9 •• 1 4 1 1 ..! i •• •• "l 3 i 2 *2 7 24 1 4 1 — •• •• •• 1 1 "2 2 "2 1 •• - - 'i •io i 3 " 2 1 1 1 17 12 2 10 4 87 "3 1 " "l 3 •• I ■ • •■ i "2 •• 4 *3 "l "3 i 1 1 1 1 io i •• 1 17 1 1 i 14 23 1 1 17 1 2 "l *'8 i '4 i 3 1 1 1 1 18 1 1 1 5 •'I - * * - 16 '79 ■■ • • ■■ 2 1 5 ■d 2 21 "2 4 9 5 .. " i "2 "i 'ii 1 i ii i *6 •• •■ ■• i "a •• - - .. " I .. •• 'i "2 i 5 1 1 2 11 II "i ■■ ■■ •• •• •I '5 '21 *5 9 *5 •• 1 1 "l 1 i 1 i 1 "5 1 I •• ••: "[ .. •• i.. •■! i "9 "1 i "l i H "2 i 1 i "2 'ii "2 1 '2 ■■ I " • • I •I •• •• :*■ 194 108 1009 302 420 291 11 1836! * I 7942 1019. 2322 1:59034 ■!—! 3279. Totals for year .. 162 1. 249; I 1 ;536| 370 Id 609J 403 - s — 6761 j 782 I2688 414' 1044J 2515| 1438 20 — 324, 1 85 Il412| S7 322 971 400 9 1 480| 281 2297: 148 613 1 1387J — 747 - U • • !l505i * At Oamaru 30 labourers were em] ■edbthe Railway Commissioners, but no particulars have been given.

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Persons assisted by the Department of Labour from the 1st April, 1893, to the 31st March, 1894.—By Localities.

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Applii ;ants. a a* cS a § OS © a Ph^ <4-i a o o oj a ,0 © 1*3 a © 1^1 ft © •d a a a o ©r-H 03 ft a a a t> O m O^ o o S£ §a ■» s sa a a at a-c" O a> a >> o O ft © a ag -A Causes of Failure to get Work. *+H So a ■8 g .a as ! Applicants. ) •d .2 i o3 a S o5 43 a » 0? a o o;a © ft CM<1 og 8 fl la © H > ft"a o o -a a o ©rH K ft ss a a 5 a N > . O m 8.3 o o S.P a S * 3 03 " a 3 S5 -a O ® S o ■si a r° a a» a 55 Causes of Failure to get Work. So" § m ■d ■■■■ 'S s Q "aji a S .uc: LAND. Labourers Ironworkers Pressers Engineers Apbil, 1893. 5 10 10 15 .. 34 14 1 .... 2 .. 2 .. 3 2 .. 1 .. 1 .. .. 1 .. 1 .. 5 1 .. 10 1 .. Ai 5 L893. 10 15 2 1 1 34 3 14 2 1 1 i Octobeb, 1893. Labourers .. 7 2 18 9.. 2 9.. Bushmen .. 6 3 31 9 .. 10 9 .. Carpenters .. 2 ..10 2 .. 1 2 .. 2 10 1 9 9 2 1 *5 io Carpenters Engine-drivers Wheelwrights Drapers Journalists Labourers May, 1893. 2 .. 6 2 .. 1 2 I .. 1 .. 2 1 .. 1 1 .. .... 1 .. 1 .. 2 1 .. .... 1 .. 1 .. 8 1 .. 1 .. 1 1 .. 7 1 .. 14 18 39 16 16 35 32 .. 893. 6 2 2 1 1 1 1 16 1 1 2 3 7 35 2 1 1 1 1 32 Novembeb, 1893. Labourers .. 9 9 31 18 .. 16 17 1 Farmers .. 1 2 1 3.. 1 3.. Blacksmiths .. .. 1. .. 1 .. 4 1 .. Waterproof manufacturers .. I 1 .. 4 1 .. 15 1 .. 16 1 4 17 3 1 1 1 39 16 15 1 Carpenters Printers Bushmen Bricklayers Farmers Labourers Juhe, 1893. 5 .. 10 I 5 .. j 49 5 .. 2 2 8 I .. 4 2 4 .. 10 .. 10 .. ! 14 10 .. .... 1 2 1 .. j 1 1 .. 2 2 '22 16 26 42 34 8 ail 39 3 893. 10 8 2 5 10 1 2 34 "i j 49 ! 2 14 » 111 5 4 10 1 2 39 Decembeb, 1893. Labourers .. 8 9 26 17 .. 16 16 1 Carpenters .. 2 2 6 4.. 8 4.. Bushmen .. .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 1 Tinsmiths .. .. 1 .. 1 .. .. 1 Drapers .. 1 .. 5 1 .. 9 1 .. Bricklayers .. 1 .. 5 1 ... 1 1 .. Blacksmiths .. .. 1 .. 1 .. .. 1 Surveyors .. .- 1 .- 1 •• •• 1 Upholsterers .. .. 1 .. 1 .. .. 1 Farm-labourers .. .. 2.. 2.. 1 2.. 13. 17 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 16 8 1 9 1 16 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 42 8 *3 Labourers Bushmen Carpenters Grooms Turners Painters Scrub-cutters Bootmakers Cooks July, 1893. 3 8 27 11 .. 20 10 1 1 11 4 12 .. 18 12 .. 2 1 7 3 .. 6 3 .. 1 .. 1 .. .. 1 .. .... 1 .. 1 .. 3 1 .. .... 1 .. 1 .. 1 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. 18 1 .. .... 1 .. 1 .. 2 1 .. 893. 27 4 7 11 12 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 20 18 6 *3 1 10 12 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Januaby, 1894. Labourers .. 5 14 12 19 I .. 27 18 1 Sailors .. .. 1 .. 1.. 2 1 .. Engine-drivers .. 1 .. .. 1. f .. .. 1 Painters ,. .. 1 1 ■*-•• ■"■.•." Farm-labourers .. 1 1 2 2 I .. 2 2.. i 18 2 Bushmen Bricklayers Bookkeepers Carpenters Cooks Stonemasons Labourers August, 1893. 7 16 15 23 .. 30 23 .. .... 1 .. 1 .. 2 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. .. 1 .. 3 ..13 2 1 3 3.. 1 .. 6 1 .... 1 .. 1 .. 7 .. 1 1 1 .. 3 10 9 10 3 20 13 .. 1893. 15 13 6 7 9 23 1 1 2 1 i 30 2 3 23 1 1 3 1 1 13 Febbuaey, 1894. Miners .. 1 .. 3.. 1 1 1 .. Carpenters .. .. 1 .. 1 .. .. 1 Labourers .. 5 9 16 11 3 10 14 .. Painters .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 1 1 .. 10 i 3 i 20 Bushmen Labourers Farmers Miners Cooks Septembeb, 1893. 2 3 6 5 .. 5 5 .. 1 3 5 4.. 14 4.. 1 1 5 2 .... 2 .. 2 .. 8 1 1 1 2 .. 1 ... 3 1 .-. 5 | 1 .. i, is; 6 5 5 8 3 13. 5 4 2 1 1 5 4 2 2 1 Mabch, 1894. Labourers .. 5 18 17 23 .. 9 23 .. Engineers .. .. 1 .. 1 9 1 .. Bootmakers .. 1 .. 1 1 .. 8 1 .. Basketmakers .. .. 1 .. 1 - .. 5 1 .. Carpenters .. 1 .. 5 1 .. 1 1 .. i Labourers GISB( May, 1893. .. | 6 | 7 | 31 | 13 | .. | 6 | 13 | .. July, 1893. rISB' XRNE. Labourers Bushmen Labourers Labourers .. i 2 I .. I 6 I .. I 2 I 1 I 2 | .. .. I 2 | 4 I 7 | 6 | .. 1, 2f I 6 | .. August, 1893. .. | 4| 2 | 12 | 6 | .. I 3 | 6 | .. Septembeb, 1893. .. | 3 | 2 | 12 | 5 | .. I 3 [ 5 | .. j Decembeb, 1893. Labourers .. I 31 5110 1 8 1.. I 31 81.. Farm hands ,. | 1 | 2 | 8 | 3 | .. | 1 | 3 | .. Januaby, 1894. Labourers .. 3 5 8 8.. 3 8.. Carpenters .. 1 .. 2 1 .. .. 1 Bakers .. 1 .. 3 1 .. 1 1 .. Febbuaey, 1894. Labourers ..| II 51 41 61..1 116 1.. Carpenters .. | 1 | ..| 3 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. WANG I-ANTJI. Labourers October, 1893. .. | .. j 7| .. | .. | 7| 6| 7 | .. Octobeb, 1893— -continued. j| Bushmen .. | 1 | 1| 1 |. .. ] 2 | 3 | 2 | ,. FOETY-MILE E IUSH DISTKICT. Labourers Carpenters Sawmillers Printers June, 1893. .. | 31 | 10 1136 | .. | 41 | 57 | 41 | .. Septembeb, 1893. 1 .. 10 .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. 2 .. 1 .. 1 .. .... 1 .... 1 5 1 .. Septembeb, 1893— continued. Labourers .. '37 50 136 .. 87 145 86 1 Engineers .. .. 1 5.. 1 1 1 .. Butchers .. .. 1 3.. 1 3 1 .. Febbuaey, 1894; Labourers .. | 2 | 5 | 15 | .. | 7| 6 | 7 | ..

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Persons assisted by the Department of Labour from the 1st April, 1893, to the 31st March, 1894— continued.

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Applii ;ants. to rf OS 0 ft po 8*2 eg £ ft S a d *H .£ g . ftp O^ S ■*> "S >* "£**"" SO Sp m ft w 3 u a n a a a J3 O © te pi pS O s! CD CD SO 3 Causes of Failure to get Work. !,• § Tjti o CO' Applicants. I j .2 CD S *3 s a "S fi o OS S ft S ft <♦_■ a O o *H 4J CD a !*§ CD > "a o ® a o CD-H CO p. c3S a 3 a Q > . O to o o a*. m CD CD a to £a J3 a as 3 Causes of Failure to get Work. o 2.2 fl 02 <D 6 "So a bo PALMERS': 'ON NORTH. February, 1894. Engine-drhers .. I .. 1 .. 1 .. 3 1 ?arm-labourers .. 1 .. 3 1 ■ .. 2.. 1 Labourers .. 3 ..10 1 2 3 3 .'. Blacksmiths ..:.. 1 | .. 1 .. 2 1 .. I February, 1894— continued. I Bakers .. I .. I 1 2 1 1 I .. I 2 1.. I 1 ; Bushmen ..! .. • ] 1 .. | 1 | .. | l| 1 | .. March, 1894. I Surveyor's work- I ..I II..1 11.. I 31 1 I .. man well: NGTON. April, 1893. Carpenters .. 2 1 7.. 3 2 3.. Jpholsterers .. 1 .. 3 1 J 1 .. :ronworkers .. 1 1 7.. 2 1 2.. Engineers .. 3 .. 12 .. 3 1 3 .. 3ricklayers .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 J 1 .. Painters .. .. 1 .. 1 .. J 1 .. Drapers .. 1 .- 1 1 .. § 1 Cooks ■' .: .. 2.. 2.. 12.. Labourers .. 24 84 84 29 79 78 J! 107 1 November, 1893. ;, 181 1208 1 i 1 1 | I 78J! 3 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 1107 Labourers .. 56 63 i208 33 86 236 117 2 Carpenters .. 1 .. I 1 .. 1 1 1 .. Cooks .. .. 1 .. 1 .. 7 1 .. Butchers .. .. 1 .. 1 .. 2 1.. ' Painters .. .. 1.. .. 1 3.. 1 Plumbers .. 1 .. : 10 .. 1 1 1 .. l l 2 29 I .. ; 10 May, 1893. Carpenters .. 3 4 i\ .. 7 6J' 7 .. school-teachers .. 1 .. 2:1.. l| 1 .. Saddlers .. .. 2.. .. 2.. 2.. Blacksmiths .. 1 7 3 2 6 7 8.. 3utchers .. 1 .. 2 1 .. 2 1 .. Cooks .. .. 2 .. 2.. 2 2.. Cailors .. 1 .. 4 1 .. 2 1 .. 3ushmen .. 13 13 54 .. 26 20 26 .. Labourers .. 49 99 216 ! 25 123 160 147 1 'l 7 "2 6 6* 14 ■ 7 1 2 8 1 2 1 26 147 i December, 1893. Labourers .. 14 19 46 15 18 101 32 1 Clerks .. .. 1.. 1.. 6 1.. Miners .. 2 3 9 5.. 7 5.. Carpenters .. 1 1 2 2.. 2 2.. Saddlers .. .. 1.. 1.. 7 1.. Blacksmiths .. 1 .. 4.. 1 2 1.. Painters .. 1 14 1112.. ;, 18! 46 9 2 2 1 2 1 7 2 2 2 20 160 "i 4 25 26 123 'i January, 1894. June, 1893. Carpenters .. 7 7 29 | 1 j 13 25 14 .. Wheelwrights .. 1 .. 4 1 .. 2 1 .. Cooks ■ .. 1 12 l|l 3 2.. 3ushmen .. 4 10 13 ..14 17 14 .. Plumbers .. 3 ..12 12 4 3!.. Labourers .. 52 69 206 25 j 96 180 120 j 1 1 1 1 i 25 13 1 14 2 96 25 2 3 17 4 180 14 1 2 14 3 120 Labourers .. 42 47 145 29 60 194 89 .. Farm-labourers .. .. 1.. 1.. 1 1.. Miners .. .. 1.. 1.. 4 1.. Gardeners .. .. 1 1 1.. 3 1.. Com. travellers .. .. 1.. 1.. 1 1.. Carpenters .. 6 1 32 4 3 16 7 .. Printers .. .. 2 .. 2.. 5 2.. Cooks .. .. 2|3 2.. 4 1 1 Bushmen .. 2 1 4 3.. 3 3.. Bakers .. 1 .. I 8 .. 1 4 1.. 29 1 1 1 1 4 2 2 3 'i July, 1893. 1 1 1 1 1 5 5 92 Carpenters .. 1 ..II 1 .. 2| 1 Printers .. -. 1 .. 1 .. 2 1 .. Coach-smiths .. 1 .. j 2 .. 1 2J 1 Cooks .. 1 .. 1 1 .. 3 1 .. 3akers .. .. 1 .. 1 .. 1J 1 .. Winters .. 4 1 19 .. 5 23 5 .. 3ushmen .. .. 5 .. .. 5 .. 5 Labourers .. 60 33 1245 16 77 186J 92 1 1 1 "i 1 i 2| 2 3 H 23 February, 1894. Chainmen .. .. 1 .. 1 .. ! 2 1 I .. Moulders .. .. 1.. 1..I3 1 .. Waiters .. .. 1 .. 1 .. | 2 1 .. Carpenters .. 1 4 7 1 4|3 5'.. Labourers .. 43 49 189 24 68 161 91 1 Butchers .. .. 1 .. 1 .. i 6 1 Engineers .. 2 1 7 3.. 7 3.. Tailors .. .. 2.. 2.. 5 2 ... Plumbers .. 1 .. 4 1.. 1 1 .. Painters .. 12 .. 57 .. 12 22 12 | .. 14. 5 5 77 i i i i 24 1 3 2 1 16 186J i August, 1893. Carpenters .. I 5 128 1 5 I 6 I 6 .. 3ushmen ..- 1 4 7 5.. 44 1 Painters .. j 10 .. 41 .. 10 12 9 1 jabourers .. I 42 45 142 44 43 159 87 .. 5 10 43 ' 6 4 12 159 6 4 9 87 i l September, 1893. Carpenters .. 3 1 16 1 3 11 4 .. 31aeksmiths .. 1 .. 1 1 .. '2 1 .. Bushmen .. 1 1 4.. 2 6 2.. Plumbers .. 2 .. 9.. 2 5 2.. Labourers .. 24 26 82 27 23 89 50 .. Cooks .. 1 .. 4 1 .. 1 1 .. 3 2 2 23 4 1 2 2 50 1 March, 1894. Labourers .. 27 29 125 I 33 23 196J 54 2 Carpenters .. \2 4 46 .. 16 21 16 .. Chainmen .. .. 2.. 1 1 4 2.. Gardeners .. 1 .. 4 .. 1 1 1 .. Maltsters .. 1 .. 9.. 1 1 1.. Bakers .. .. 1 .. 1 .. 7 1.. Milkers .. .. 1.. 1.. 1 1.. Bushmen .. 1 1 4 2.. 3 2.. Bricklayers .. 2 .. 7.. 2 2 2... Plumbers .. 1 .. 4.. 1 1 1.. Painters .. 2 15 2 14 3.. 33 i October, 1893. Labourers .. 32 27 140 24 35 159 57 2 Clerks .. 1 1 5 2.. 2 2.. rarm-labourers .. .. 1 1 .. 4 1 .. Chainmen .. 1 .. 2.. 1 1 1 ,. Carpenters .. 3 1 7 4.. 5 4.. Jushmen .. 1 1 3 2 .. 5 1 1 57 2 1 1 4 1 2 ■1 1 2 1 2 BLEI February, 1894. Labourers .. j 12 I .. I 62 I .. I 12 I 9 I 12 I .. Maltsters .. 1 | .. 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. ble: :heim. March, 1894. Painters .. | l|..|5j..|l|l|l|..

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Persons assisted by the Department of Labour from the 1st April, 1893, to the 31st March, 1894— continued.

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Applit cants. to d a o f 3 a 8 a o§ PH 4= X o o s © A a © ■0 © > a-s o 8 ss a o ©-H to a |I a s (3 0 © > O 03 go » © sa a w O © M f>i <H O 2a CD Q go Caus( Fai: t< get Y 33 of lure i ) fork. Appli( CD H 8 ;ants. to d fi o OS to r^ o ft o§ S d fit ca © •a 1 s > © O-t^ ° "J °S oo * a ■»> HO 6-w ©— © ;H « a » s sj ©a a a o a A a c*d fit?, rt o t-H*i Sa 13 ft Caus Fai I. gefV ;es oi ilure o O tVork, <D f"3 CD % H 02 o 6 2® 02 to w V a M o 02 6 3 02 to 02 CO CD d M o 02 ch: IISTi 3HURCH. Labourers .. I 61 2|34|2|6|6|8|.. Bootmakers ..| ..| l| lj 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. T\/r.... 1 ono April, 6 I 2 •■ I * 1893. I 34 1 2 1 6 6 1 8 1 Carpenters Labourers September, 1893. ••I 1 I •• I 8 I •• I 1\ 2 I * I •• .. | 19 | 5 I 83 | 5 I 19 I 29 | 24 I .. May, 1893. Blacksmiths .. 3 .. 10 .. 3 6 3 .. Bushmen .. 1 110.. 2 1 2.. Bricklayers .. 1 .. 7 1 .. .. 1 Carpenters .. 2 .. 6 2 .. 7 2.. Cooks .. 3 1 6 4 .. 6 2 2 Farm-labourers .. 1 .. 9.. 1 1 1 Flaxmill hands .. .. 3.. 3.. 1 3,. Gardeners .. 3 .. 9 .. 3 10 3 .. Labourers .. 38 2 162 2 38 89 38 2 Clerks .. .. 2.. 2.. 4 2.. Miners .. .. 1 .. 1 '.. 1 1 .. Printers .. 1 .. 10 .. 1 2 1 .. Photographers .. 1 .. 5.. 1 6 1 .. Stonemasons .. 1 . . 5 1 2 1 May, : 3 1 1 1 1893. 10 10 7 6 6 9 1 2 4 3 2 6 1 7 6 1 1 10 89 4 1 2 6 2 3 2 1 2 2 1 3 3 38 2 1 1 1 1 Labourers Carpenters Plasterers Blacksmiths October, 1893. .. 27 20 126 3 I 44 98 I 47 1 .. 5 .. ! 1 2 1.. 1 .. 2 1 .. 11.. 2 .. 3 .. I 2 5 I 2 .. 2 3 1 *2 i 1 3 9 162 3 3 38 Labourers Printers Bakers November, 1893. ..16 3 60 8 11 42 17 2 .... 1 .. 1 .. 1 1 .. 1 .. 1 1 .. 3 1 .. 3 38 2 2 1 2 2 1 *2 1 10 5 5 1 1 1 Labourers Painters Carpenters December, 1893. 8 4 32 I 3 9 18 12 .. 5 117.. 6 11 6 .. 1 1 6 I .. 2 2 2 .. 1 1 June, 1893. Carpenters • -.. 1 .. 9.. 1 2 1 .. Butchers .. 1 1 2 1 .. Labourers .. 42 7 199 2 47 110 47 2 Compositors .. 3 1 12 .. 4 19 4 .. Farm-labourers .. 1 .. 2.. 1 2 1 .. Flaxmill hands .. .. 1 2 1 .. 1 1 .. Storemen .. 1 .. 5 .. 1 18 1 .. Shepherds .. .. 1 J .. 1 .. 1 1 .. June, : 1 1 12 7 3 1 L893. 9 199 12 2 2 5 *2 1 1 47 4 1 2 2 110 19 2 1 18 1 1 1 47 4 1 1 1 1 *2 Labourers Plasterers Carpenters Printers Cooks Bricklayers Blacksmiths January, 1894. ..21 2 89 4 19 54 22 1 1 .. 3 .. 1 1 1 .. 2 .. 4 .. 2 3 2 .. 1 .. 1 1 .. 2 1 .. 1 .. 9 1 .. 1 1 .. 2 .. 4 .. 2 4 2 .. 1 .. 5 .. 1 2 1 .. ±. 4 1 1 'i 19 1 2 54 1 3 2 1 4 2 22 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 i i l 1 1 1 July, 1893. Carpenters .. 1 .. 3 1 .. 2 1 .. Engineers .. 1 .. 8 .. 1 12 1 Civil engineers .. .. 1 .. 1 .. 6 1 .. Grocers .. 1 .. 6 1 .. 3 1 .. Labourers ..36 7 158 12 31 89 43 .. Saddlers .. 1 .. 8.. 1 3 1 .. Blacksmiths .. 2 .. 11 .. 2 1 2 .. July, ] L893. *2 1 1 3 8 2 12 6 3 89 3 1 1 1 1 1 43 1 2 1 1 Labourers February, 1894. .. | 4| 3| 18 | 2] 5 9| 7 | .. 14. 5 9 7 1 16 7 6 158 8 11 I 2 August, 1893. Carpenters .. 2 .. 6.. 2 2 2.. Plumbers .. 1 .. 2.. 1 1 1 .. Iron-workers .. 1 .. 6 1 .. 1 1 .. Blacksmiths .. 1 .. 9.. 1 1 1 .. Labourers .. 30 11 126 16 25 211 41 .. 1 2 August, 2 1893 6 2 6 9 126 Labourers Carpenters Bricklayers Printers Engineers Journalists Painters March, 1894. 4 ..12 1 3 20 4 .. .. 11 .. 44 .. 11 12 11 .. 3 .. 9 .. 3 6 3 .. .... 1 .. 1 .. 2 1 .. .... 1 .. 1 .. 1 1 .. .... 1 .... 1 1 1 .. 4 .. 25 .. 4 9 4 .. 3 11 3 20 12 6 2 1 1 9 1 1 1 10 11 i 4 TIM. LEU. November, 1893. I Labourers .. I 41 3 I 14 I .. I 7 I 7 I 7 I .. | Blacksmiths .. | 1 | .'. | 5 | .. | l| 1 | 1 | .. | Labourers Painters March, 1894. ••I ■• I 7 I •• I 7 I •• I 4 I 7 I •• ■■I •• I 3-j - - I 1 I •• I 1 I 1 | .. OAM 4.EU. May, 1893. Labourers .. | 10 | 3 | 52 | .. | 13 | 10 | 13 | .. Labourers September, 1893. .. | 6 | 1 | 31 | .. | 7 | 10 | 7 | .. July, 1893. Labourers* .. | 21 j 1 1 120 | .. | 22 | 30 [ 22 | .. Labourers December, 1893. .. | 1| 1| 5| 1| 1| 2| 2 | .. August, 1893. Labourers .. | 7 | 8 | 37 | .. | 15 ,| 67 | 15 | .. Labourers January, 1894. .. | 26 | 7 1100 | 10 | 23 | 49 | 33 | .. DUN! April, 1893. Labourers .. 1 4 5 5 .. 6J 4 1 Miners .. 2 ..10 2 .. 5* 2 .. Flaxmillers .. .. 2 4 2 .. 2 2., Seamen .. .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 1 Carpenters .. 1 .. 1 1 .. 2 1 .. Waiters .. .. 1 .. ' 1 .. .. 1 Ploughmen .. .. 1 .. 1 .. .. 1 Blacksmiths .. 1 .. 5 1 .. 2 1 .. Farm-labourers .. .. 1 2 1 .. 1 1 .. Gardeners .. 1 .. 4 1 .. 2 1 .. Engineers .. .. 1 .. 1 .. 3 1 .. >UN 'DIN. 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Labourers Masons Gardeners Engineers Blacksmiths June, 1893. .. 23 7 100 9 | 21 65 25 5 6 1 30 .. 7 20 7 .. 1 .. 6 .. 1 2 1 .. .... 1 1 1 .. 3 1 .. 1 .. 5 1 .. 2 1 .. 5 Labourers Milkers Bushmen Carpenters July, 1893. 6 3 45 3 6 21 9 .. .... 1 2 1 .. 2 1 .. 1 .. 5 .. 1 2J 1 .. .... 1 .. 1 .. 2 1 .. 6 i 21 2 24 2 9 1 1 1 May, 1893. Labourers Grooms Ploughmen Platelayers Eabbiters August, 1893. 8 3 33 5 6 37 11 .. 1 2 2 3.. 4J 8 '.. 2 2 2 .. 3J 2 .. 2 .. 5 .. 2 5 2 .. .... 12 1.. i 1 .. Carpenters .. 1!.. 4 1 .. 2 1 Plumbers .. ... 1 .. 1 .. 1 1 .. Music-teachers .. .. 1 .. 1 .. 3 1 Bushmen .. 26 ' 3 144 1 28 51 29 .. Labourers .. 6 8 18 13 1 32 11 3 1 1 1 29 11 37 5 i II 3 2 2 1 3 * liailway Commissioners ernplt tyed 30 men through the Bureau to work in ballast-pit, but no particulars were taken.

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Persons assisted by the Department of Labour from the 1st April, 1893, to the 31st March, 1894— continued.

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Applii ;ants. □ FJ o 0£ V ft © ft £i< o o Sh -u © fl fit © i*s P eD & ft © <o +■» c3 t> £3 o <g S O <Di-< CO ft a 3 S5 a o t> . O y; (5.8 O 3 «> S o a a 3 H o © & o «t—i ■ —I O ft id A Causes of B'ailure to get Work. ■4- ■■ o!* ! .S j Applii ;ants. a r/J cfi £ o 0*3 co 5 f-i S? <D ft ft«1 s! *3"h fi o <<5 ft © A 03 *H f> © ■5 "> . -^_ij ■ -O mfta 0-g a *&: P O PI 43 Cr-. 0) rl o; P. m J a n5 ■ +J_: o y S o 11 Q CO fit a gp a % Caue Fai f. t get"! les of ilure n ;o tVork. ■d CD 9 a 16 o V . d 6 Tr, O 33 "o 0 * go 02 CO o a M o 3a iun: ID! [— continued. Flax-millers Miners Bushmen Bakers August, 1893— continued. .... 1 .. 1 .. I i 1 .. .... 2 2 2 .. 4 2 .. 1 .. 8 .. 1 2 1 .. 1 .. 7 1 .. | 1 1 .. 'Anue1 2 i 2 1 1 December, 1893. :mbe: t, 18! i 2 1 Labourers .. | 34 | 5 |170 | 2 | 37 | 61 | 39 | .. 5 170 1 i i January, 1894. 189. Labourers Platelayers Carpenters Blacksmiths Gardeners September, 1893. 4 2 16 3 3 12 6 .. 6 1 31 .. 7 13 7 .. 1 .. 4 .. 1 1 1 .. 1 .. 6 1 .... 1 .. .... 1 .. 1 .. 2 1 .. 93. 3 i l 3 7 1 12 13 1 8 7 1 1 1 Labourers .. 8 11 35 3 16 36 17 2 Miners .. 1 .. 4 1 .. 1 1 .. Flaxmillers .. .. 6 12 6 .. 5 6 .. Chainmen .. .. 1 3 .. 1 2 1 .. Carpenters .. 2 .. 3 1 1 3 2.. Clerks .. .. 1 .. 1 .. 3 1 .. Teachers .. 1 .. 11 .. 1 3 1 .. 35 4 12 3 3 2 ii Labourers Seamen Painters October, 1893. ..39 6 167 2 43 84 45 .. 1 .. 1 .. .. 1 .. .... 1 2 1 .... 1 .. >. 2 1 1 43 84 45 1 1 February, 1894. Labourers .. j 2| 2|10|2|2|4|3|1 Labourers Painters Chainmen Shearers Masons Miners November, 1893. .. 43 j 9 235 8 44 100 I 51 1 6 | 3 29 1 8 10 9 .. 1 • .. 7 1 .. 11.. .. . 1 ! .. 10 1 .. 11 .. .. .. i 1 .. .. 1 3 ! 1 .. 6 | 1 35 .. 7 11 I 7 ' .. 13. 8 1 1 1 March, 1894. Labourers .. 21192153.. Quarrymen .. 5 .. 21 .. 5 9 .5 Masons .. 1 1 6.. 2 3 2.. Flaxmillers .. ..I 214 2 .. 2 2 .. KUIv IAEA. Labourers October, 1893. .. | 10 | .. | 42 | .. | 10 | 7 | 10 | .. II February, 1894. j| Carpenters .. | 3 | 2 | 8 | v- | 5j 8 | 5| .. GREYI ,10UTH. Bricklayers Painters Plumbers June, 1893. 3 114.. 4 4 4.. .... 2 .... 2 2 2 .. 1 .. 6 .. 1 1 1 .. i January, 1894. Labourers .. I 3 1 11 I 16 I .. I 14 I 3 I 14 I .. Miners .. | 16 | 40 | 86 | .. | 56 | 9 50 .. November, 1893. February, 1894. Miners .. I 7 1 .. I 31 I .. I 7 I 31 I 5 1 2 Labourers ..J 40 | 11 1169 | .. j 51 [257 | 46 | 5 Labourers Carpenters Painters Plumbers ..I 4j 1120 .. 5 1 5 .. .. 4 | 1 I 12 .. 5 1 5 .. .. j .. ! 3 j .. .. 3 1 3 .. ..I 2 j .. I 10 .. 2 ! 1 2 .. March, 1894. Labourers .. I 7 1 2 I 30 I .. I 9 I 17 I 8 I 1 Platelayers .. | 1 | .. | 8 | .. | 1 | 4 | 1 | .. hok: [TIKA. Labourers Labourers April, 1893. .. | 11 | 12 |141 | .. | 23 [ 6 | 23 | .. May, 1893. .. | 9 | 5 | 41 | .. | 14 | .. | 14 | .. Octobeb, 1893. Labourers .. | 6 | 4 | 28 | .. | 10 | .. | 10 | .. Miners Carpenters Coopers Sailors Labourers Boilermakers September, 1893. 2 ..8.. 2 5!2.. 1 i 10 1 2 1 .. 1 .. 10 •.. 1 8.1.. 2 i 15 2 2 2 !! 19 6 114 '.'. 25 30 23 2 ..1 1 ..2 .. 1 \ I .. 1 November, 1893. Labourers .. I 19 I .. I 80 I .. I 19 I 9 I 19 | .. Carpenters' ..j 4J 2 | 16 | ..' | 6 | 2 | 6 | .. February, 1894. Carpenters .. 1 117 1.; 2 1 2.. Painters .. 2 2 | 10 | .. I 4 2 4 .. Bricklayers .. 2 | 1 |: 6 | .". | 8 1 3 .. INVEBC ARGILL. Labourers Labourers April, 1893. .. | 19 | 18 | 44 ! 15 | 22 | 8 ,| 37 | .. May, 1893. .. | 18 | 1 | 83 | 1 ] 18 | 10 | 19 | .. October, 1893. Labourers .. 6 4 41 I .. 10 52 l 10 .. Warehousemen .. .. 1 .. | .. 1 ■. 1 Farm-labourers .. 1 .. 2;1 .. 11 Bushmen .. 2 11 14 I .. 13 6 13 .. Blacksmiths Labourers July, 1893. ••I l I •• I 6 I •• I ""■ I 2 I *- I •• .. | 2 I - ... |. 2 I .. | 2 I 2 | 2 I .. November, 1893. Labourers .. I 3 1 6 I 14 I .. I 9 j 10 I 9 1.. Bushmen .. | 2 j .. | 11 | .. | 2 | 8 | 2 | .. Cabinetmakers Wood-cutters Tailors Painters Fish-curers Bushmen Labourers Miners Sawmill-hands Ploughmen August, 1893. .. I .. 1 .... 1 1 1 .. .. .. 1 .. .. 1 1 1 .. 1 .. .. 1 1} 1 .. 1 j .. .. 1 U 1 .. 112.. 1 34 1 .. 17 11 56 .. 28 24 28 .. 31 46 142 2 75 289 76 1 1 .. j 5 .. 1 .. 1 .. .. I 1 ..16.. 1 1 1 .. .. i .. 1 ! .. 1 .. 1 1 .. December, 1893. Labourers .. I II 1121..12] II 21.. Bushmen ..] 2 | 5 | 13 | .'. | 7 | 4 7 .. 1 1 1 1 1 28 76 1 1 1 January, 1894. Labourers .. II 5 1 .. 6 16 .. Farm-labourei-s .. ..: 1 .. 1 .. 1 1 Bushmen .. ..j 1 .. .. 1 l 1 Platelayers .. 8 ! .. 43 .. 8 5 8 . '. February, 1894. Labourers .. I 15 I 14 I 85 I" .. I 29 I 12 I 29 I Bushmen\ .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | 10 | 1 | .. i Farm-hands Labourers Bushmen September, 1893. 1 .. 1 .. 1 1 .. 6 5 33 1 10 38 11 .. .... 1 .... 1 4 1 .. March, 1894. i Labourers .. I 13 I 3 I 44 I 1 I 15 I 13 I 16 I .. II Miners .. | ,. . 2 .. .. 2 1 2 .. .. ,

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Table showing Monthly Statistics concerning Persons Assisted by the Department of Labour, from the 1st April, 1893, to the 31st March, 1894.

Dunedin.

Auckland.

Christchurch.

Invercargill.

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April, 1893 May, June, „ July, August, „ Sept., October, „ Nov., 6 33 31 7 13 12 39 57 34 12 2 8 11 13 9 5 11 4 8 14 5 19 2 4 17 46 40 12 24 16 47 71 39 31 4 12 31 106 142 52 61 57 169 316 170 68 10 40 6 33 31 7 13 12 39 57 34 12 2 8 6 4 7 7 6 2 6 11 4 18 4 4 19 129 104 38 42 43 124 248 132 38 4 28 17 17 11 5 15 5 4 11 2 12 2 4 29 29 7 9 11 43 60 37 19 2 8 25 89 92 27J 58 28 84 126 61 53 4 19 16 43 35 12 24 16 47 70 39 29 3 12 11 3! 5 ■28| 1 i 2 J113 *3 " 13 40 39 11 24 16 46 71 38 29 4 10 "i 1 2 i i i i "i i Dec, „ Jan., 1894 Feb., March, „ 2 1 "i 13 i "'2 i Totals .. 105 359 1,282 254 79 949 105 254 666J 346 13 40 147 l 341 2 i 7 254

ipril, 1893 tfay, rune, „ July, August, „ Sept., „ October, „ >fov., Dec, „ fan., 1894 ?eb., March, „ 6 18 23 6 15 7 15 11 12 7 7 7 13 20 41 26 28 7 5 12 18 17 10 20 19 38 64 32 43 14 20 23 30 24 17 27 15 48 62 38 50 27 59 36 42 15 20 23 6 18 23 6 15 7 15 11 12 7 7 7 2 4 6 1 2 *2 9 28 35 26 34 18 44 23 30 7 13 16 19 22 52 32 38 13 20 23 30 24 12 27 16 12 h i 47 49 179 68 56 25 13 36 36 32 12 32 18 38 61 31 43 14 20 22 29 23 17 27 1 1 1 1 *3 1 5 12 19 1 1 2 5 15 37 4 6 2 5 26 44 22 33 9 18 22 26 20 13 12 5 3 1 1 2 2 2 -2 6.. 5.. 11.. 7.. 3 .. 1!.. h'.'. 2.. 3.. *$± 50 1 1 1 i 2 1 1 2 2 i i i 1 1 1 i i 5 i *2 i Totals .. 134 217 351 435 134 18 283 312 39 585 343 8 41 69 250 20 16 2 2 10

i-pril, 1893 tfay, rune, „ fuly, August, „ Sept., „ October, „ Sfov., 6 55 49 42 35 20 31 17 14 29 4 22 3 10 10 8 11 5 20 4 6 2 3 3 9 65 59 50 46 25 51 21 20 31 7 25 35 239 229 194 149 91 136 61 55 115 18 90 6 55 49 42 35 20 31 17 14 29 4 22 3 4 2 3 5 3 14 26 180 178 149 109 68 91 44 38 83 13 68 3 15 4 15 17 5 4 10 3 6 2 3 6 50 55 35 29 20 47 11 17 25 5 22 7 136 155 116 216 31 106 46 31 67 9 51 9 61 57 50 46 25 51 19 20 30 7 25 "i 2 2 i *8 'e 9 62 57 50 46 25 51 21 20 31 7 25 *2 2 i 2 3 3 1 i '5 3ec, ran., 1894 ?eb., March, „ i Totals .. 324 85 409 1,412 324 41 1,047 87 322 971 400 9 4 18 404 4 !— 1

April, 1893 May, July, „ August, „ Sept., October, „ Nov., „ Deo., Jan., 1894 Feb., March, „ 19 18 3 50 6 9 5 3 9 15 13 18 1 63 7 16 6 6 7 15 5 37 19 3 113 13 25 11 9 16 30 18 44 83 8 211 33 57 25 15 44 87 44 19 18 3 50 6 9 5 3 9 15 13 2 22 7 6 4 4 1 23 4 25 65 3 139 20 42 16 8 34 49 27 15 1 3 2 1 22 18 3 110 11 24 11 9 15 30 17 8 10 4 354 43 59 13 5 8 22 14 37 19 3 112 13 25 11 9 16 30 18 i 37 19 3 113 13 24 11 9 16 30 18 .J.. " i" "I" i i 1 Totals .. 150 144 I 294 I I 651 150 I ! 428 24 270 73 540 293 1 293 l

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Table showing Monthly Statistics, &c.— continued.

Palmerston North.

HOKITIKA.

Kumara.

Timaru.

Greymouth.

Oamaru.

Blenheim.

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'eb., 1894 4 4 8 15 larch, „ .. 1 1 Totals .. 4 5 |. 9 I 15 i 4 2 9 •• j 6 2 1 .. 13 3 6 2 .. 1 .. .. 6 ljl.. v ....jl 5 2 J 1 ! 1 j I 4 2 9 7 2 16 7 2 .. I

tpril, 1893 lay, iept., )otober, „ 11 12 9 5 25 7 6 4 23 2 5 4 79 34 23 14 32 10 25 9 141 41 159 28 96 23 11 9 25 6 23 5 70 60 11 21 12 122 2 20 73 18 95 314 23 14 32 10 25 9 6 *46 ii 4 23 14 29 10 25 9 3 .. I 123 14 32 10 25 9 Tov., „ 'eb., 1894 Totals .. 113 488 79 113 67 110 113

ictober, 1893 : 10 .. 10 'eb., 1894 13 2 5 Totals .. 13 2 j 15 42 10 I .. 32 8 3 j .. 5 50 13 .. 37 10 7 5 3 ! 15 10 I 10 .. 5 .. 15 .. .. .. 10 .. .. 5 .. .. 15

O.V., 1893 [arch, 1894 5 5 3 8 8 8 11 10 19 5 19 5 14 8 14 8 8 8 8 .. 5 8 .. 13 16 .. 8 .. 8 ... 16 .. Totals .. 8

"une, 1893 4 3 *ov., „ 10 5 "an., 1894 19 51 neb., „ 47 11 larch, 8 2 Totals .. 88 72 7 15 70 58 10 20 4 42 10 102 19 200 47 38 8 402 I 88 "i 16 32 79 153 30 7 15 70 58 10 7 4 12 288 21 7 15 70 51 9 i '* 1 7 15 70 58 10 160 4 310 160 332 152 | ~8 160

Jay, 1893 'uly,* LUgllSt, Sept., „ )ec, an., 1894 10 21 7 6 1 26 3 1 8 1 1 7 13 22 15 7 2 33 52 120 37 31 5 100 10 21 7 6 1 26 7 3 2 35 96 30 25 2 74 1 10 13 22 15 7 1 23 10 30 67 10 2 49 13 22 15 7 2 33 13 .. 22 .. 15 .. 7 .. 2 .. 33 .. 92 .. Totals .. 71 21 92 345 71 12 262 11 81 168 92 * And thirt; men em; >lo; 'edb; Eailwa; Commissioners, but no larticulars were taken.

'eb., 1893 [arch, 1894 13 1 14 13 ; 64 13 j .. 1 5 1 | .. 14 ! 69 j 14 | .. 51 4 13 1 10 1 13 1 •• 13 1 14 Totals .. 55 14 11 14 I

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Table showing Monthly Statistics, &c.— continued.

Gisborne.

Wanganui.

Forty-mile Bush District.

Wellington District.

Summary of Statistics concerning Persons Assisted by the Department of Labour, from the 1st April, 1893, to the 31st March, 1894.

The total number of persons assisted by the Department for the year is 3,371; 7,942 persons being dependent on 3,341 of these, and no particulars given of 30. Of the 7,942 persons dependent, 1,836 are wives, 5,638 are children, and 468 are parents and others supported by single men. Of the 3,371 assisted, the causes for failure to get work were : slackness of trade, 3,279; sickness, 62; no particulars, 30. There were 104 families sent to workmen, consisting of 104 wives and 280 children.

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i'lay, 1893 I 6 uly, „ 4 August, „ 4 Sept., „ 3 )ec, „ 4 'an., 1894 j 5 i'eb., „ 2 Totals .. j 28 7 13 4 8 2 6 2 : 5 7 I 11 5 j 10 5 ! 7 31 13 12 12 13 13 7 6 d 4 3 4 5 2 11 14 9 8 9 9 8 5 13 .. 6 18 6 2 3J 8 6 | .. 3 6 5 1.. 3 5 11 4 11 io .. 4 ; io 7 ; .. 1 ! 7 58 2 24j! 00 ! i ii ! 8 6 5 .. ..I .. 11 .. ..I .. 10 .. .". .. 7 I I _:__ ! ..j..! .. 58 2 32 60 101 11 62 2 ._. 28 ..

ictober, 1893 1 I 8 9 1 1 .. 9 9 9 9

urie, • 1893 31 10 41 Sept., „ 39 53 92 Peb., 1894 2 5 7 Totals .. 72 68 140 136 31 4 101 156 39 14 103 15 2 .. 13 307 72 18 217 41 92 7 57 154 6 41 .. 91 1 7 .. 139 1 41 88 4 7 136 4 -140 217

ipril, 1893 May, rune, „ ruly, August, „ Sept., „ Dctober, „ 33 69 68 67 58 32 38 58 19 51 59 47 89 127 87 41 50 28 31 60 26 57 60 39 122 196 155 108 108 60 69 124 45 108 119 86 115 285 266 268 218 116 157 219 65 188 264 204 33 69 68 67 58 32 38 58 19 51 59 47 12 20 2 6 2 4 1 23 70 196 196 195 158 80 118 138 46 123 181 150 34 32 29 20 50 30 33 35 25 44 35 40 88 164 126 88 58 30 36 89 20 04 84 46 85 201 231 221J 181 114 176 250 126 235 212 241J 121 195 154 107 106 60 66 121 44 107 118 84 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 1 1 1 2 1 3 5 12 1 13 60 153 146 86 89 46 49 108 29 89 99 67 34 34 8 15 11 11 7 9 7 16 15 11 12 1 "i 2 2 12 2 1 4 4 7 2 8 1 '2 i 2 1 1 i a 4 '2 3 2 1 1 3 2 2 Sfov., *2 Dec, „ ran., 1894 Feb., Slarcb, „ 14 24 7 5 2 3 8 5 7 3 1 *4 i Totals .. 599 701 1,300 2,3G5 599 115 1,051 407 893 2,273| 1,283 17 19 46 1,021 178 22 -1-1 G 4 2 23

3unedin Auckland jhristohuroli Invercargill .. falmerston N. Wellington .. rlokitika ireymouth .. iumara rimaru lisborne ?ort y-mil e Bush District )amaru* JVanganui .. Jlenheim 254 134 324 150 4 599 79 88 13 5 28 72 105 217 85 144 5 701 34 72 2 11 32 68 359 351 409 294 9 1,300 113 100 15 16 60 140 1,282 435 1,412 651 15 2,365 488 402 50 19 101 307 254 134 324 150 4 599 79 88 .13 5 28 72 79 18 41 73 2 115 95 4 949 283 1,047 428 9 1,651 314 310 37 14 62 217 105 312 87 24 7 407 254 39 322 270 2 893 113 160 15 8 2 140 666J 585 971 540 16 2,273f 67 332 10 13 24| 217 346 343 400 293 7 1,283 110 152 15 16 60 139 13 8 9 1 2 17 3 8 40 41 d 147 69 18 1 250 '*5 1,021 341 20 404 293 2 178 113 160 15 16 2 4 7 10 4 22 2 50 1 i 1 2 *2 7 10 1 1 23 19 46 44 6 \ 2 ii 18 *8 58 *58 136 i 71 1 14 21 8 92 9 14 345 1 69 71 1 14 12 262 11 81 9 14 168 9 11 5,903 i 92 9 14 "9 92 *55 14 Totals .. 1,836 1,505, 3,341 7,942 1,836 468 5,638 1,019 2,322 3,279 62 104 280 1,480 1,654 50 97 7 7 4 42 * And thirt; men em; >lo; red b; Railwa; Commissioners; no lartieulars taken.

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EEPORTS OF LOCAL INSPECTOES OF FACTOEIES AND AGENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR.

AUCKLAND. Sib, — Department of Labour, Auckland, sth May, 1894. I beg to submit, for your information, a report of the departments under my charge during the past year. Labour. Since date of my last annual report this has been a busy department; and lam sorry to say that, owing to adverse causes, it has not been so bright as could be wished. Owing to what was formerly our staple industry and unfailing outlet for workers—viz., the gumfields—having become so depressed, through a falling market, a large number of unemployed has been thrown out to seek other sources of work. This, in addition to the steady influx arriving from the Australian Colonies, has kept the supply ahead of the demand. A great majority of these newcomers call at the Bureau, as they consider it the most likely place to get information. With very few exceptions these arrivals are bond fide working-men, anxious and willing to work, and, as a rule, good samples of men. They appear always thankful for information, and, as far as I can judge, generally acted thereon, especially in the case of those without incumbrance, and whom I directed to likely country districts. New arrivals with families are, in a good many instances, much to be pitied, a great number of such having come under my notice. Any work that is to be had about the city is picked up by local men; and, as they have generally younger members of their families engaged at factories or elsewhere', and when times were better managed to make a home, these manage to pull along. But with the penniless stranger there is nothing but dire distress ; so that if these poor homeless people get a little assistance others should not grumble. Besides giving what information I could, I have, since my last report, found work for, or directly assisted to the scene of work, 348 persons; these were all absorbed by private employers, with the exception of about a dozen sent to public works. At the present time there are many and anxious inquirers after work; and, as the Government has intimated the intention of opening up bush- and road-works in this district, I trust we will tide over the winter fairly well, and hope for spring and brightness. At the present we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that a large number of capable and willing workmen are needing employment. My observation leads me to the belief, and I am thoroughly in accordance with the efforts now being made to settle the workers on land. It is, I am convinced, the only solution of the unemployed difficulty. As a matter of fact, there are far more workers than work. There is no longer any use in saying, " Oh, why don't they save up while in employment, and be prepared for hard times." Well, this is a possibility of the past, as the wages of the present day are, for a man with a family, a bare subsistence, even if he gets constant work. In this district the bush/felling is considered as good a spell of work as any going. At that a man may get some month's work at, say, about £1 ss. per week. Out of this he has to pay rent and keep a family in town, besides, at least, spending a couple of pounds getting there and back; so when the season is over he is just where he started as far as his pocket is concerned. Therefore those who in the present day cry down the labourer for improvidence do not see the true aspect. It is only when a man has his own home that he will be able to save a little, and with that home to improve and live on when out of work, he has a final prospect of being his own master. Factoeies. For this year 261 factories have been registered, employing 4,255 hands. In addition to these, fourteen new places have applied for registration, which will employ about one hundred hands. In connection with this return, I do not think it gives a fair average, especially in the clothing line, as the major portion of these establishments are at this time partially suspended. During the past year I have made an exhaustive inspection, and where I saw necessity, in sanitary matters or renovating by whitewashing, cleaning, &c, I had such matters attended to. As far as circumstances will allow, I think the workrooms in this district are fairly up to the requirements. No doubt there are a good many places could stand improving, but, the buildings not having been designed after the modern idea of a factory, it would be a difficult and expensive matter to bring them thoroughly up to the mark. And, as I do not think this altogether a profitable season for owners, it would not be judicious to press for expenditure. Owing to various unavoidable causes, factories, especially in the clothing line, are at present rather dull, and a good number of employes are not working full time. The principal cause of this is, no doubt, the closing of a large manufacturing establishment and placing in the market a large quantity (about a hundred thousand pounds' worth) of goods, manufactured and otherwise. This, combined with tightness in the money-market, has no doubt somewhat disorganized the legitimate trade of the season. Again, the shops, as a rule, get their goods made up by private sources, and, it is said, at a cost with which the regular factories are unable to compete. I am pleased to say that my relations with factory-owners on the whole, as a rule, are of the most cordial and pleasing nature, and the provisions of the Act are cheerfully carried out; and when on a visit lam generally met with the remark, " Just tell us what you want." Of course there are

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would-be evaders, and when conciliation and remonstrance fail there is no remedy but to put the law in action. This course I was forced to adopt in such cases. As the local Bench interpreted the reading of some of the clauses contrary to what was the departmental idea, and, I think, spirit of the Act, this caused some disorganization, and, lam led to believe, encouraged opponents. But, as I have brought this under your notice in a private memorandum, I trust you will endeavour to get the wording put in such clear unison with the spirit that there can be no possible doubt. The amended Act will, I trust, be so worded as to enable an Inspector and employer to fight out a case without drawing in the unlucky employes. As it stands at present the only course for proving or disproving certain charges is by putting employes in the witness-box —a very risky place for them if called upon to give evidence against a certain class of employers. Indeed, I am of opinion that there might be instances where the alternative would be perjury or loss of situation, and, with such a prospect, it is hard on the unoffending boy or girl so placed. I have often received the petition, " Please don't call on me ; I will only get into trouble." To give ground for this belief it is known that girls have had to leave, or were dismissed as suspects ; and I here wish to put it on record that when such cases were represented to disinterested employers they immediately gave the sufferers employment. There is a surplus of girl-labour in this city at present, owing to the closing of the large manufactory already indicated, and there is no organization strong enough to protect them. Individually, girls are at the mercy of an employer who would be inclined to act tyrannically; and I fear the liberty of the subject is not at all times considered, as, in some instances, it would go hard with a girl if it were known that she belonged to a union, or was seen speaking to the Inspector. My reason for introducing this into my report is to show you the necessity for giving the Inspector more power, especially in finding out breaches of the Act, such as non-payment for statutory holidays, and also to let you see the reign of terror that would be in force if those girls were unprotected. I will quote an employer's estimate of his employes, and you may take it for granted he does not stand alone. He said, " I just look on them as I do on a bag of potatoes —viz., the market value." Shop and Shop-assistants. On this Act I can only say, in the words of my last report, it is giving satisfaction to none. The difficulty of an Inspector enforcing the half-holiday is the same as that referred to re a clause of the Factory Act. It can only be done by placing the boy or girl so deprived in the witness-box to give evidence against his or her employer; but, as I understand an Act is framed for embracing compulsory closing on the half-holiday, it will obviate this if it becomes law. I trust the proposed Act will be complete, and close all shops, large and small. I fail to see where the injury would come in if all were closed alike; and Ido not think it would be fair to close the shop that employed an assistant, and allow a rival who runs on family lines to keep open. In the framing of this Bill I would draw particular attention to the necessity of having shops properly ventilated. There is another, and what I consider a serious, wrong and injury perpetrated on employes in this city—namely, certain employers curtailing the hour for dinner. In the case of girls working in a stuffy and overcrowded shop on a hot summer day, I consider it cruel, and a very certain way to injure health and strength, to prevent them getting, during the day, a breath of fresh air. lam certainly not a believer in the theory I heard advanced against this—viz., if girls had a half-hour they would walk about and get tired, and be unfitted for afternoon work. I hope the Act will provide for an hour at dinner. lam convinced that this clause is much required, as lam aware of instances in which girls were not allowed out from opening till closing. The shortest hours are on ordinary days, from 9 am. till 6 p.m., on Saturdays and eve of holidays extending to very late hours. Girls are threatened with dismissal on the first instance they are seen making use of the seats ordered by the Act. I could give a great many illustrations to show the urgent necessity for legislation in this matter, but I trust the above will suffice. I have, &c, H. Fekguson, Inspector. E. Tregear, Esq., Secretary, Labour Department, Wellington.

GISBOBNE. Sib,— _ Gisborne, 2nd May, 1894. During the past year, owing to the gradual advance of settlement in the Cook and Waiapu Counties, it is satisfactory to report that steady employment has been found for a large number of men, principally at roadwork and bushfelling, at fairly remunerative rates of wages. It cannot, however, be denied that the rates prevailing in previous years have been considerably reduced, especially in regard to work at bushfelling. This arises in a great measure from the increased competition by reason of the large influx of such workers, attracted here by the favourable reports emanating partly from those employed in preceding years, from notices in the Press, and to inducements held out by employers, which have in many cases not been realised. It is stated that the amount of clearing this season will be restricted. If that be so, the now resident labourers would be sufficient to undertake any work of this description offering. It may be assumed, on the other hand, that advantage will be taken of the lower rates and comparative abundance of labour to proceed with clearing operations on a more extensive scale than that anticipated. The principal roadworks undertaken have been under the control of the local bodies, the expenditure thereon having chiefly been from loans under "The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886." In some instances, also, the expenditure of parliamentary grants for roads has been placed under the supervision and control of the county authorities. These works have

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been let by contract, as required by statute. Without entering upon the particular phase of the question of the undue competition which prevails under the contract system, leading often to disastrous results to employers and employed, and a frequent source of expensive litigation, it is desirable here to point out that where moneys advanced by Government are concerned it would in most cases be preferable, on economic grounds, and as being a distinct advantage to the workers, that the co-operative system should be introduced. There could be no difficulty in bringing this about in the case of Government grants, it being sufficient in such cases to stipulate that the controlling authority should carry out the works on this system. In the alternative, the Government could carry out the works in accordance with this principle. With regard, however, to loanmoneys and the ordinary expenditure of local bodies, an amendment of the law would be required. Beferring to the contract system, it has been plainly exemplified locally that, were it not for the protection afforded under " The Contractors' and Workmen's Lien Act, 1892," many an industrious worker would inevitably have been deprived of his earnings. This Act and " The Workmen's Wages Act, 1893," are now fairly understood and appreciated, and it is hoped that any defects perceptible in them will shortly be remedied. I would suggest that printed forms of claims as per the various schedules be supplied to agents, so that they may be readily obtained if required. In farm and agricultural pursuits there has been a steady progressive stride and an increase in products, though it is to be regretted that, owing to the wet weather prevailing at harvest, the grass-seed crop was one of the poorest gathered, and, in consequence, work in this direction was necessarily limited. The large increase in the export of wool this season may be placed as a setoff against other losses. The local freezing-works has kept pace with the increase in flocks and herds, and there can be no question but that this industry has given a great impetus to the settlement of land, and materially helped the progress of this district. The building trade has been unusually brisk throughout the year, which affords some indication of confidence in the present and hopefulness for the future of Poverty Bay. There are yet large areas of Crown and Native lands which should be brought into profitable occupation in the near future. There are also numbers in our midst who are eager to form associations for the purpose of settling upon these lands, and the Government have been approached on the subject, with the result that assurances have been given that small-farm settlements in suitable localities will be established. The promotion of settlement obviously will stimulate the labour-market, and in a great measure help to solve the labour difficulty occasionally arising here and elsewhere. It is hoped that, so far as this portion of the colony is concerned, there will be little delay in placing a large body of old colonists and desirable settlers upon the present waste lands. I have, &c, E. Tregear, Esq., Wellington. H. McKay, Agent.

WELLINGTON. Sm ,— Wellington, Ist May, 1894. During the past year I have had very little to do with the actual work of inspection of factories in the City of Wellington, that part being undertaken by Mr. Shanaghan, from whom you will get a detailed report. My time has been occupied principally in dealing with the labour portion of the department, and in visiting other districts in connection with factory and labour work. I shall divide my report into two portions —viz., labour and factories. Laboue. During the past year the work in the central office has greatly increased, owing to the establishment of new agencies of the department in various places throughout the colony, and the extension of the co-operative system of work. There is also the scheme of the Minister of Lands for settling the people on the land, in which they are assisted by being paid for felling the bush, grassing, &c, the cost being added to the original price. The selection of men for these settlements has been intrusted to this department, and the selections made, as a rule, have turned out well, the men doing their work satisfactorily. Many of them are taking up the land and becoming, I hope, permanent settlers. In Wellington, as will be seen from the tabulated return, the number of men assisted by the department is greatly in excess of any other district in the colony. This, of course, is accounted for by the fact of Wellington being the central port, and also that the majority of the Government works are being carried on in the North Island. We have during the last twelve months had a large number of people arrive from the Australian Colonies, due, I suppose, to the severe depression existing there, also to the cheap fares now ruling. Unfortunately, the majority of the men from the other side are penniless, or nearly so, when they land, and are forced to take to the road at once : hence the numerous complaints about the numbers swagging the country. Last year I had the pleasure to report that nearly all Australians applying to the department for work or information had means, but it is not so now. The reason, to my mind, is obvious; the men who left at the beginning of the depression had money in hand; the others, unwilling to leave, spent all they had in trying to get work before coming here. I trust that, with the advent of the bushfelling season, the present stagnant state of the labour market will be greatly relieved. The bush-burning season in the North Island, particularly in the Wellington Province, has been a good one, many settlers being enabled to clear off the accumulation of years. This will, no doubt, encourage the small struggling settlers to have a larger area of bush felled this season, as it does not pay the small settler to have his land lumbered by standing bush. At time of writing this there is a great stir among certain of the benevolent people in Wellington, Christchurch, and elsewhere, and there is talk of erecting night-shelters, doling out rations, &c. I trust that this will not be gone on with, as it will have a direct tendency to invite a certain class of men whom, I am sorry to say, we have in our colony to come into the towns to participate in the good things going. Also, this system of giving charity without any return has been found to have a degrading tendency, as

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men, no matter how ashamed they may be at first to partake of this class of charity, gradually become used to it, and eventually look upon it as a right, and not as a favour. As will be seen from the statistical part of the report, men have been sent to work from Christchurch, Auckland, Dunedin, Oamaru, Timaru, and other parts of the colony, they being in all cases selected by our local agents. In the early part of January, in accordance with instructions, I started men to work on the State farm at Levin. There was a little trouble at first with the Natives, but, happily, this has been settled, and there are now thirty men at work there, and about a dozen of them have their families on the ground, being housed in whares, &c. The work done consists of road-making, fencing, line-cutting, and breaking up ground for an orchard. It is intended to fall a large area of bush this winter, which, when burned off, will be subdivided into paddocks for the purposes of the farm, and a permanent site laid off for the homestead. There is every prospect of it being a success, as the land is good; it is within easy distance of a railway-station, and about fifty miles from Wellington. Factobies. During the year I have visited, as your deputy, all the principal and a large number of the smaller factory districts, and find that the Act has been working most satisfactorily. There have been a few prosecutions throughout the colony, the details of which you will receive from the local Inspectors. These have been, as a rule, unimportant. I find that, in visiting the factories throughout the colony, employers generally find it to their advantage to provide clean airy workrooms, and many of the factories are, indeed, a pleasure to go through—notably, in Dunedin. There are, to my mind, a few amendments required in the Act such as that relating to piece-workers, education standard, limiting of boys' hours to so many per day instead of so many per week, also lowering the number to constitute a factory—as I cannot see why the employer who only employs, say, two boys should have the power to work them long hours, while his neighbour, who may employ three, has to conform to the law. The Shop-assistants Act has not been at all a success, it being almost impossible for an Inspector to see that the provisions of the Act are faithfully carried out while the shops are allowed to remain open. Evasions, lam convinced, are many, but difficult to detect. I have, &c, Jambs Mackay, Chief Clerk, and Inspector of Factories. E. Tregear, Esq., Secretary, Department of Labour.

Sib,— Wellington, 31st March, 1894. I have the honour to report that during the year just ended there has been a steady improvement in the factories and workrooms in this district. Several new buildings have been finished expressly for factory purposes, while others are in the course of erection, and improvements have been effected in twenty-seven old places, chiefly under the sanitary and ventilation clauses of the Act. Considerable difficulty is met with in getting alterations effected in the ventilation of old buildings, more from a want of knowledge of the advantage of ventilation than from a desire to evade the Act. 2. One drawback in this district is the almost entire absence of dining-rooms, and, owing to most of the workrooms being on leasehold property, the leases of which in many cases have almost expired, the difficulty of enforcing the clause is almost insurmountable, as any alteration to the present buildings would have to be of a permanent character, to meet the requirements of the city by-laws. Of course, as new buildings are provided all these requirements will be attended to ; but to enforce the proprietors in many factories and workrooms to provide dining-rooms under existing circumstances would be to many of them a very great hardship, and would result in some cases in closing the workroom, and sending the work out into private houses, where we should lose all control over -the worker. I may add that the workpeople in small establishments suffer very little inconvenience from the want of dining-rooms, as the majority go to their homes for their noonday-meal. 3. There have been three prosecutions under the Act—namely, section 58. In one case a tailor was charged with having two women employed after 1 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. The defence was that the women being piece-workers they were not retained illegally, as piece-workers were excepted from the operation of clause 58. The Besident Magistrate deferred his decision for a week. He then gave judgment for defendant, without costs, as he considered the Inspector should be protected. The other two cases were against laundry proprietors for breach of section 58, for employing women after 1 p.m. on Saturday. These cases were brought as a test, the defendants not being satisfied that they should be subject to the Factories Act, and wishing to have the Besident Magistrate's decision on the point as to whether laundry-work was a handicraft. One case was argued in Court by counsel on both sides, when the Besident Magistrate gave judgment in our favour, and inflicted a penalty of £1 and costs ; the other case was remanded, in consequence of defendant's illness, for fourteen days. When it came on defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined ss. and costs. There is urgent necessity for the amendment of section 58 so as to include pieceworkers without any doubt in the holidays provided in that clause, more particularly the Saturday half-holiday. During the year 174 permits have been issued to young persons under sixteen years of age to enable them to work in a factory or workroom, in accordance with sections 53 and 54. Care has been taken in every instance to get particulars of birth, certified as correct by Begistrar-General, except in cases where children were born out of the colony, when the usual statutory declaration has always been insisted upon. Acting under section 51, permission to work overtime has been granted to 2,470 persons to work 7,392 hours, as follows: —

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Dressmakers ... ... ... 454 persons worked 1,267 hours. Tailoresses ... ... ... 653 „ 1,911 „ Waterproof clothing ... ... 829 „ 2,613 „ Laundries ... ... ... 233 „ 699 „ Bootmakers ... ... ... 196 „ 588 „ Tentmakers ... ... ... 34 „ 101 „ Hatters ... ... ... 35 „ 105 Tinsmiths ... ... ... 12 „ 36 „ Ironworkers ... ... ... 24 „ 72 „ Totals ... ... 2,470 persons worked 7,392 hours. Whilst dealing with overtime questions, it would be well if section 51 were amended by removing the twenty days' limit, and leaving it to the Inspector to arrange the number of days per week that persons would be permitted to work overtime. As the twenty days' limit presses unduly on the tailoresses especially, who are principally piece-workers, and lose a great deal of time in the dull season, they think it hard they should be debarred from making up some of the time in the brisk season that they lost when work was slack, and take work home with them, and work all hours without restriction. There have been eight accidents reported in this district during the year, and they were fortunately of a slight nature, chiefly arising from thoughtlessness whilst working with machinery. There has been an increase of registered factories and workrooms during the year of fifty-three, employing 259 persons — i.e., 135 males and 124 females ; but twenty factories and workrooms, which employed 104 persons— i.e., 42 males and 62 females—last year, have failed to register for the current year, chiefly through not at present employing the required number of persons to bring them under the Factories Act. There are 252 registered factories and workrooms, including forty-three bakeries, in the district, employing 3,327 persons — i.e., 2,568 males and 759 females. I am confident in stating that the Factories Act is working satisfactorily in this district. Paid 1,127-visits of inspection to factories and workrooms. Shop and Shop-assistants Act. I have the honour to submit to you my annual report on the working Shop and Shopassistants Act in this district, and to state that it has not been as satisfactory as we would wish it to be. The stronger points against the success of the Act are, the want of compulsory closing on one day in each week at 1 p.m. for all classes of shops, and a sanitary clause. The only trades that have made any pretence of making the half-holiday a success have been the drapers and butchers ; all the others have gone about it in a half-hearted manner, from the fact that several in each trade decline to close their shops ; and those who would close say they must keep open to protect their business. Their employes get their half-holiday, but it is robbed of its benefit to them by the fact that they get it often on days that all their companions are at work, and they have no means of enjoying themselves. Then, it is a very difficult matter to find out if the assistants really get their holiday regularly, as they will not give an Inspector any information, and it is almost impossible to find out from personal knowledge. In the present Act there is no provision for a dinner-hour ; it simply provides for fifty-eight hours per week, including meal-times, as the time that women or persons under eighteen years of age shall be employed. I think it would be an advantage if you could fix a meal-hour, and limit the working-hours of women and young persons per day instead of per week. It is also very necessary that the new Act should have a sanitary clause similar to section 3 of " The Factories Act Amendment Act, 1892." There has been two convictions under section 3; both were pork-butchers. One was fined £2 and costs, the other £5 and costs, the Besident Magistrate remarking that the law was that each shop-assistant should have a half-holiday each week, and if they would not observe the law they would find it an expensive game. In conclusion I may say that I do not consider that the present Act is working satisfactorily to either employer, employe, or the department. I have, &c, E. Tregear, Esq., Chief Inspector. Jambs Shanaghan, Inspector.

PALMEBSTON nobth. Sib,— Ist April, 1894. I have the honour to forward you a report of the factories for the year ending 31st March, 1894, in the Palmerston North District. There are in all forty-three small factories registered under the Factories Act up to date, two of which were registered in the Pohangina, against fortyseven last year, but this decrease is owing to a few tailors, dressmakers, and a couple of bakers, who only employ two hands each, owing to the dullness of the times. The fees received for the current year amount to £19, against £21 lis. for 1893. I have on several occasions visited the workshops and factories, and on each occasion found them fairly clean and satisfactory. With regard to the keeping of the half-holiday, Wednesday is principally the recognised day, but a few wheelwrights, coachbuilders, and blacksmiths keep their half-holiday on Saturdays. With reference to the Shops and Shop-assistants Act, they are allowed their half-holiday, with one exception—that of a store, the manager of which was in the habit of letting the assistants go at 1 p.m. and all to return same evening at about 7 p.m. and remain until about 10 p.m. or 11 p.m. However, I have put a stop to 4—H. 6.

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that by laying an information against the manager for a breach of the Act, and I expect the case to come off on the 4th instant. The forty-three factories mentioned give employment to 316 males, forty-five females, and fifteen children, making a total of 376. The district is very quiet and dull at the present time, principally owing to there being no public works of any kind in or about Palmerston North. I have, &c, James Slatteey, Inspector of Factories. E. Tregear, Esq., Chief Inspector of Factories.

WANGANUI. Sib,— Waganui, 2nd May, 1894. I beg to report, re factories and state of trade during the last twelve months at Wanganui, that there have been only two new factories started in that time — one a carriagefactory, and a joining factory, and are doing well. The sash-and-door factory is progressing and extending its business, and employing more men than formerly. The freezing-works have increased their capital, and are fully employed at present, and will be kept open for a longer time during the year than before, as the new shareholders in Hawera and out-districts have engaged to supply sheep for freezing. The other industries are all progressing slowly and doing a fair trade, employing steadily a good number of employes. With regard to trade, there was a fair amount doing during the winter months, but it has slackened off a good deal lately; but still there has been very little distress among the workingclass belonging to the town, and, as the borough is going to spend some £1,200 in improving the streets, &c, the residents unemployed will have some work to carry them through the winter months till things improve. There is a number of the floating unemployed coming to Wanganui at times, but, as work for them is scarce in town, they go on to the country, where they may find employment, and where things will be better shortly when bushfelling contracts commence ; and, as a- good deal of bush-land has been taken up, there will soon be some contracts out and work for good men more plentiful. I have, &c, Edmond Villaes, Inspector of Factories. The Secretary, Department of Factories, Wellington.

Sib, — Police-station, Wanganui, 23rd May, 1894. In reply to your telegram of the 17th instant, re working of Factories Act in Napier during last year, I beg to inform you that no breaches of the Act were reported to me, or came under my notice, during the time I was Inspector of Factories at Napier, from Ist April, 1893, to middle of February, 1894, when I was transferred to Wanganui. Of course lam merely reporting from memory, as I have no data here to enable me to report definitely upon the subject. I am, &c, E. Tregear, Esq., Chief Inspector of Factories, J. Cullen, Sergeant. Wellington.

NELSON. Sib,— Factory Inspector's Office, 2nd May, 1894. I have the honour to report for your information that during the past twelve months the Factories Act has worked most satisfactorily in both the Nelson and Motueka Districts, no complaints having been made to me by the employes. From all that I can observe, the employers exhibit a disposition not to curtail any of the benefits conferred by the Act. Several of the workrooms have been enlarged or otherwise improved, to the comfort of the employes. It will be seen from the returns furnished that the wages received by females are very low, ranging from 2s. 6d. to 10s., not at alia sufficient wage to live on; it would be a benefit to such if the matter of a fair wage could be settled by a Board. There is the matter of young persons being paid direct by the employer; in my opinion, it would be far better if the employer paid over the wage to the parent; such action would tend to improve the authority of the parent over the young person and increase home influence, thus causing a great benefit to society at large. (Vide Deva's Political Economy, pp. 112, 113, and 459.) I am, &c, John Peatt, Inspector of Factories. E. Tregear, Esq., Chief Inspector of Factories.

BLENHEIM. Site,— Police Office, Blenheim, 31st March, 1894. I beg to forward my annual report on the industries and condition of the workers in the Blenheim Police District. The flax industry has been very slack for a considerable time some of the mills are idle, and a good many of those that are working are employing only about half the complement of hands that they formerly employed, when flax was selling at from £22 to £25 per ton. I have spoken to several employers, and they inform me that it is paying them scarcely anything after paying wages. They are keeping the mills going, expecting that the price will improve, and not wishing to discharge their old hands who have worked for them for years.

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There are no complaints about the infringement of the existing Labour Acts, and I consider the workers in this district have very little to complain of compared with the reports I see in the papers from time to time from other places. About two months ago there were eight men employed clearing drains, and in the Dashwood Pass Eailway at that time there were about as many more wanted to be taken on; their names were taken down, and on Monday last, 30th April, these men received notice that they would be taken on, and two only applied, the others said they had employment. There are very few unemployed in Blenheim. We have a few occasional swaggers looking for work. I have, &c, M. Scanlan, Inspector of Factories. E. Tregear, Esq., Chief Inspector of Factories, Wellington.

GEEYMOUTH. Sik— Greymouth, sth May, 1894. For the past year I have to report very few changes in the condition of labour from the district under my charge. Altogether 212 men have been employed on various works, the number of those dependent on their earnings averaging about four to each man. A marked feature of the year's operations has been the satisfactory extension of the co-operative principle to skilled labour. The new railwaystation and the police-barracks have been erected on the system of partnership contracts, and I must say that all classes of labour employed worked harmoniously together, and that the work performed is so thorough and substantial as to call forth praise from disinterested experts. Mr. George Cook, of the Public Works Department, made out the quantities and estimates for these buildings, and the even rate of wages earned by the men justifies the care bestowed on his calculations. To summarise the skilled and unskilled labour, I might say that 108 men were employed in removing earthwork and general navvying, and that, including platelayers, 104 were engaged in the skilled branches. Of the latter, there were thirty-eight carpenters, two bricklayers, three workers in concrete, nine painters, and one plumber. The largest number of men engaged was from- Hokitika, where 101 worked at the new railway-station, as against forty-three employed at Kumara roadside station, and sixty-eight at the Grey Police-offices and Eailway buildings. Since my last report there has been no great falling-off in the number of the unemployed, and many of the men working on the formation of the Grey-Hokitika Eailway have only had irregular work up to date. The timber trade has now reached an export of 143,000ft. per month, and, as fresh developments are going on, the industry will continue to absorb labour. During the year small contractors who were fortunate to hit on a belt of silver-pine near a road made from 10s. to 12s. per day in squaring and hewing sleepers. Wet weather, of course, reduces the average earnings, but some few sleeper-parties made very good wages, and the output from the district necessitated special steamer charters. The collapse at Brunnerton, consequent on the limited scale of operations by the Grey Valley Coal Company, and their threat to abandon the mine at the end of the year, has brought a few Brunner names on to my books. As I write, contracts are being let by the Greymouth-Point Elizabeth Eailway Company for the construction of six miles of line from Greymouth to Coal Creek ; and if the co-operative system were adopted the whole of the unengaged labour in the district would be provided for. I sincerely hope that the successful tenderers will not import men, as there is an abundance of local labour offering. Generally speaking a lamentable want of energy and enterprise on the part of young men is a feature in this district, and, if they exhibited the same courage in mining exploration as was evinced by the "old-timers," new and lucrative fields of labour would be opened up. On the West Coast there are characteristics which the Bureau has to deal with not found elsewhere. Miners are men of very independent spirit, and dislike any notion of relief being associated with public works. I apprehend that the object of the Bureau is to afford relief, and perhaps it might be better to give agents larger discretionary powers to pick parties of really needy men, without being governed by the rotation of the list of names on the Bureau books. I have, &c, W. H. Boasb, Agent. E. Tregear, Esq., Secretary, Department of Labour, Wellington.

CHEISTCHUECH. Sib, Bureau of Industries, 2nd May, 1894. In submitting my report of the year's operations now terminated, I beg to state that when I took charge of this office, on the 17th April, 1893, I found that no proper indexed and consecutive records had been kept. This was due to the fact that my predecessors could not possibly keep pace with the duties of so large a factory district, and meet the demands upon their time in dealing with the applicants for employment at this branch of the Bureau of Industries. So soon as I made the position known to the head of the department I received instructions to procure the necessary assistance. Labotje. My first duty after taking charge was to come in contact with the demands of large numbers of unemployed. Several meetings had been held in Cathedral Square during the month of March and the beginning of April. The fact that the Government had just sent sixty odd men to road-making at the Bealey and Taipo brought a large number from the "West Coast, Wellington, South Canterbury, and Otago to swell the ranks of the unemployed in this city. Fortunately, the Government had previously secured the Cheviot Estate, which provided road-making work for a large number. In addition to this a great many were forwarded to employment on the co-operative

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railway- and road-works in the Wellington and Taranaki Districts; thus, the difficulty which has afflicted this particular part of the colony year by year was temporarily relieved. During the year ten men have been sent to the improved bush-farms settlement at Chasland's, in Southland. About three of these men have sent for their wives and families to join them, and I believe are doing well, and quite contented. I have received a letter from one of the families. They express great satisfaction both with the place and the work, and say they consider those fortunate who avail themselves of the opportunity afforded them by the Government of lifting themselves out of the ranks of the unemployed into a much better and happier social condition. A few men have been sent to the State farm near Levin, in the North Island. One of the men's families has already joined him, and, I believe, is well satisfied with the change. I regret to say that the larger number who have had similar opportunities have not manifested that desire to help themselves which was anticipated by the department at its inception, and hence the repetition of the same applicants time after time for employment on the Government co-operative contracts. However, it is to be hoped that, as preference is to be given to men in future who will be prepared to take their families with them to districts where work is more plentiful, we shall have less of the unemployed difficulty each year. Work has been provided for 419 men, with 1,412 dependent upon them—322 have been sent to Government co-operative works, and 87 to private employment. It is much to be regretted that large landowners and other employers of labour have not availed themselves more frequently of getting their workmen through the Bureau. Factories. This year 369 factories have been registered in this district, employing 4,753 hands—namely, 3,705 males and 1,048 females —an increase of fifty-six factories, I found that in some of the larger factories the owners had neglected to provide separate rooms in which females and young persons could take their meals. This omission was remedied in every case when the requirements of the Act was explained. In several instances I found the sanitary arrangements in a very unsatisfactory condition, but, with the ready assistance of the city and borough authorities, this cause of complaint has been removed. ■ I have had occasion to prosecute firms for breaches of the Act; in some of the cases I believe it has been those left in charge who have been the real offenders. On the whole, the employers have afforded me every facility for inspection at all reasonable hours, and I desire to acknowledge their courtesy in this matter. I have also always found the employes willing to communicate any information that would help me to carry out my duties, with due regard to the best interest of both employers and employes. Shops and Shop-assistants Act. This Act, I believe, is being carried out as well as could be expected, but is a most difficult measure to administer. Almost all the principal establishments close on Thursday afternoon. Those who do not close, on the whole, consistently carry out the provisions of the Act with regard to their employes and their half-holiday. There are a few who have been somewhat difficult to deal with who try to evade the law. I believe the majority of shop-owners would hail a compulsory half-holiday, provided the choice of the day is left to be fixed locally. I have, &c, John Lomas, Inspector.

TIM ABU. Sir,— Timaru, 31st March, 1894. I have the honour to forward you a report of the factories and workrooms registered under " The Factories Act, 1891," for the year ending the 31st March, 1894, in the Timaru District. Tor the present year, up to the 31st March, 1894, I have registered thirty-eight factories and workrooms, giving employment to 382 males and 118 females, against forty-five factories and workrooms in the year 1893, when 358 males and 163 females were employed, showing an increase of 25 males and a decrease of 45 females. The latter I account for in the general fall-off of the dressmaking and tailoring. I might say that after making careful inquiries I find there has been a falloff of trade in the district this last twelve months, but it has been very perceptible this last three months, more so in the branches mentioned above, which is no doubt due to the low price of grain and indifferent crops. Several farmers have informed me that they cannot get advances on their crops, which no doubt is the cause of stagnation in trade. With regard to the sanitary condition of the workroom, &c, the employers have shown every desire to make any improvements pointed out to them for the comfort of their employes. Several of the owners have shifted partitions to enlarge the rooms, and ventilation has been increased where necessary. With regard to the weekly half-holiday, Thursday has been the day appointed for some considerable time past. Such being the case, I have not had the difficulty here that has been experienced in other places where there has not been any fixed day. I have, as often as my other duties would allow, visited the workrooms at different times, but have reason to believe that the holiday is strictly observed. During the year I summoned the manager of a flour-mill for working a person on the Thursday afternoon, but the case was dismissed, as the day was appointed under the Employment of Females and Others Act, which is repealed ; but the Timaru Borough Council has since called a meeting and reappointed the day under the Factories Act. There are two general complaints about the working of this Act from the employers' point of view. One is in regard to the schedule of charges. They seem to think that there should be a midway charge between the five shillings and the one pound one, of course dividing the numbers.

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They also complain in having to give a half-holiday when there has been public holidays during the week. With regard to bakehouses, every attention has been paid to the 41st clause of the Act, and the renovation regularly made. With regard to the 51st clause of the Act, where overtime is allowed, I would suggest that, if the number of hoars allowed were specified as so many hours per year —not more than three hours per day—the amendment would be more workable, as in some instances the employers only require their hands for one hour over their regular time. The Shop-assistants Act. This Act has been fairly carried out, the assistants getting their regular holidays. There have not been any prosecutions under this Act during the year; neither have I received any complaints from the assistants. I have, &c, E. Tregear, Esq., Wellington. H. Hallett, Inspector of Factories.

ASHBUBTON. Sir,— Ashburton, 2nd May, 1894. There has been neither increase nor decrease in factories here during the last twelve months. There are only two factories in the ordinary sense of the word —namely, the woollen factory and Bollitt's flour-mill. The woollen factory has not been employed full time since Christmas, as business is slack; but the flour-mill has been going as usual. Both are remarkably well conducted, and keep to the letter of the law. All the other places are only shops for work, and are fairly well conducted. Ido not think there is any glaring breach of the law, and I am sure there is no " sweating " here. Business has been very dull in all trades, excepting the building trade, which was pretty brisk for a while, but is now quite stagnant. This being essentially a wheat- and sheep-growing locality there is no employment for labour except during shearing and harvest, and much less area is put under crop this year than last year, and even the winter ploughing is curtailed. Landowners will only spend as little money as possible, and will leave the land for grass ; farmers are disheartened at the bad harvest and poor prices, and numerous farms are in the market for sale. S. Moller, Inspector of Factories. The Chief Inspector of Factories, Wellington.

DUNEDIN. Sir, — Department of Labour, Dunedin, 21st May, 1894. In reply to your telegram re annual report, I beg to state that since the Ist June, 1893, the number that has been sent through this office to be employed on public works and survey is 303, and the number drafted to private employment is 107, or equal to a total of 410, including wives and children. Last year those sent to private employment were 411, and to public works and survey 325, making a total of 736, or, in other words, 326 more than have been employed throughout this year by the Labour Department here. There is one notable feature in the above, and that is the small amount of private demand for labour in comparison with the previous year. As I pointed out formerly, this in a great measure arises from the Victorian crisis causing much distress, and, connected with a corresponding want of employment over there, inducing a large number to seek relief here, and distributing themselves over the country districts, supplying farmers and others with their labour. But I think the principal cause is the low price of grain, impoverishing the farmer to such an extent that he cannot afford to employ the same amount of labour as formerly. The men here, on the whole, have been reasonably quiet during the year. They are beginning to appreciate the fact that the Government are striving their utmost to attend to their interest in the only possible way in which it can be done at present. With regard to the Catlin's district, there has been more or less suffering amongst the :'struggling settlers, whose finances are too limited to do much in the way of improving their holdings, and who rely principally on the road-, and railway-works as the chief means of subsistence; but after the railway is complete to Vial's Hotel their trouble will be considerably lessened, as they will be able to fall back on their ground, and increase their means .of living, by getting their timber and other produce into the Dunedin market at less than one-half of the cost they are paying at present. Business, on the whole, is on the ascending line. There has been throughout the year a vast increase in the building trade, and that always appears to me to be a sure sign of improvement in trade generally. I have, &c, E. Tregear, Esq., Wm. Farnie, Secretary, Department of Labour, Wellington. Agent, Labour Department.

Factories. The continued illness of Mr. T. K. Weldon, the late Inspector of Factories, at the time when the local report was required, prevented any return from Dunedin being inserted this year.

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INVEBCABGILL. Sir, — Bureau of Industries, Invercargill, sth May, 1894. I have to report that during the year ending the 31st March, 1894, the labour market has been kept in a fair balance through the new system of co-operative contracts, which takes the place of relief-works, especially in remote or out-of-the-way localities, which cause some men to look about for employment rather than be sent there. In this district the Bureau has found work for 302 men, whose earnings have to support 770 women and children. These figures do not include persons who, when I got them work, were too indolent to profit by it, and seemed to prefer worrying the members of the House of Bepresentatives and Government generally. I have had some difficulty, in selecting men for work, to know the new arrivals from those resident in the colony, and likewise to know the single from the married men. In many instances I have had to visit their houses and see the wife and family before giving them work, and in some instances I have found that the wife and family were not in existence. In such cases the applicants did not again visit me. I have, &c, The Secretary for Labour, Wellington. J. B. Greig, Agent.

Sir, — Invercargill, 2nd May, 1894. I have the honour to forward you a report on the Factories and Shops and Shop-assistants Acts for the year ending 31st March, 1894. There are seventy factories and workrooms registered up to date for 1894, employing 839 persons. There are a few other places which I expect will soon come under the Act, and will be registered. There have been few evasions of the law .during the year; these were dealt with in Court. I have frequently visited the factories, and found some without sufficient light and ventilation. On bringing the matter before the notice of the employers, they at once very willingly complied with my request to have the necessary improvements made to suit. I find in some shops boys and girls are employed,-but less than three which in my opinion should receive the same protection as others do who are employed in similar occupations and under the Factories Act. Speaking generally, the Factories Act in the Invercargill District has been carried out by employers and employes in a most satisfactory manner. With reference to " The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1892," I beg to call your attention to section 4, which provides for women and for young persons under eighteen years of age working fifty-eight hours in any one week ; but it does not limit the employer to any number of hours in the one day ; therefore he can keep them to any hour he likes provided he does not exceed the number of hours stated-—namely, fifty-eight. All the shopkeepers strictly observe the Wednesday halfholiday except fruiterers. Clerks in large shops, &c, have informed me that they work very long hours, and receive small wages. They are very anxious to be protected. I know this to be correct, and would respectfully recommend that all clerks should be included under section 4 of " The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1892." I have, &c, E. Tregear, Esq., Wellington. Michael Greene, Inspector.

Total Number of Men employed by Railway Commissioners (Workshops and Maintenance Depots).

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Men. Apprentices. Men. Apprentices. Auckland Dhristchurch Dimaru ... Dunedin Wellington jnvercargill STapier ... tVaipukurau 80 224 4 142 82 18 19 6 19 39 27 18 2 6 Wanganui Westport Greymouth Picton ... Nelson... 51 16 20 4 4 11 3 1 1 Totals ... 670 127

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Men. Apprentices. Men. Apprentices. • ? go. 03 ml 53 a P *?~ 03 O Q CD m tin It Hi if m o & Newmaeket, At JCKLAND. £ s. d. 0 5 7 0 6 0 0 6 2 0 0 6 0 9 3 0 6 6 0 10 6 0 9 6 0 10 0 0 9 8 0 9 0 0 9 0 0 8 0 0 8 4 0 6 6 0 8 0 0 6 6 0 9 9 0 6 6 0 9 0 0 9 0 0 8 8 0 6 6 0 6 6* 0 7 0 Grey nioui £ s. d. 0 9 3 0 10 0 0 4 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 Labourers .. 12 Lifters .. ..2 Machinists .. .. 3 Improvers, Painters' .. 1 Fitters .. ..10 Improver, Fitters' .. 1 Coppersmiths .. .. 1 Brassmoulders .. .. 1 Turners .. .. 3 Blacksmiths .. .. 5 Sawyers .. .. 1 Trimmers .. .. 1 Sailmakers .. .. 1 Painters .. .. 3 Polishers .. .. 1 Enginemen .. .. 1 Watchmen .. .. 2 Boilermakers .. .. 2 Improvers, Boilermakers' 1 Pattern-makers .. .. 1 Spring-makers .. .. 1 Carpenters .. .. 9 Improvers, Carpenters' .. 1 Strikers .. .. 9 Wheel-tappers .. .. 2 £ s. d. Fitters Blacksmiths Strikers Boilermakers Carpenters Painters Labourers 2 1 1 1 5 1 9 £ s. d. 0 9 0 1 2 0 5' 0 6 0 11 4 2 6 1 0 15 0 10 9 0 2 0 13 6 2 0 10 6 1 1 2 2 Wes iTPOR IT. 0 10 6 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 9 2 0 10 0 0 7 0 0 8 6 0 7 6 0 5 5 Fitters Blacksmiths Turners Carpenters Boilermakers Holders-up Painters Enginemen Labourers 2 1 1 3 2 1 1 1 ! 4 2 1 0 8 6 0 18 0 10 5 0 i Addington (' Chri: 40 6 19 1 29 2 2 16 1 2 12 3 2 11 1 14 12 1 1 1 1 3 1 ! '1 6 ! 6 1 1 I 1 ! 71 tl (Dm 14 8 14 5 8 1 2 10 8 3 22 1 1 1 1 13 1 2 4 1 1 3 :stchuech) 0 6 0 0 6 6 0 6 3 0 7 6 0 9 1 0 7 0 0 7 3 0 9 10 0 10 6 0 8 6 0 9 8 0 7 0 0 7 3 0 6 10 0 7 0 0 9 4 0 9 5 0 10 6 0 9 0 0 10 0 0 9 0 0 7 10 * , i 0 12' 0 2 0 10 6 i 2 Labourers Lifters Strikers Storemen Fitters Improvers, Fitters' Watchmen Carpenters and Sawyers .. Patternmakers Crossing Fitters.. Boilermakers Improvers, Boilermakers' Grinders Machinists Improvers, Machinists' .. Turners Blacksmiths Spring-makers Tinsmiths Coppersmiths Furnacemen Enginemen Forgers ! Forgers' Helpers Trimmers Painters Sailmakers Brassmoulders Riveters Oliversmiths Holders-up * Piecework, £6 Is. per week. Hillside 14 0 li' 4 Napiee Fitters .. ..3 Carpenters .. .. 2 Blacksmiths .. .. 1 Boilermakers, ... .. 1 Strikers .. .. 1 Painters .. .. 1 Lifters .. ..2 Labourers .. .. 3 Sailmakers .. .. 1 Watchmen .. .. 2 Enginemen .. .. 1 Storemen .. .. 1 1. 2 0 7 0 1 ! 0 9 0 1 0 12 0 1 0 15 0 2 1 1 1 "i 1 0 13' 6 0 12 0 0 9 0 0 9 0 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 8 0 0 8 0 0 7 0 0 5 4 0 7 0 0 7 0 0 7 0 0 8 0 1 0 15' 0 i 3 0 98 3 5 1 1 1 0 7 8 0 10 9 0 7 0 0 12 0 0 7 0 Wanganui (Eas: Labourers .. ..19 Blacksmiths .. .. j 2 Improvers, Blacksmiths' .. ; 1 Spring-makers .. .. 1 Coppersmiths .. .. 1 Boilermakers .. .. j 5 Improvers, Boilermakers' j 1 Boilermakers' Helpers .. j 1 Strikers .. ..2 Fitters .. .. I 6 Turners .. .. I 2 j Carpenters .. .. 5 Lifters .. .. 4 Painters .. .. 4 Machinists .. .. 2 Sailmakers .. .. 1 Trimmers .. .. 1 Watchmen .. .. | 2 Enginemen .. .. I 1 Petone (Well Labourers .. 11 Watchmen .. .. 2 Enginemen .. .. 1 Machinists .. .. 5 Moulders .. . - 1 Fitters .. ..10 Turners .. .. 5 Blacksmiths .. .. 4 Spring-makers .. .. 1 Coppersmiths .. .. 1 Carpenters .. 10 Strikers .. ..7 Riveters .. .. 1 Holders-up .. .. 2 Boilermakers .. .. 5 Painters .. .. 2 Lifters .. ..7 Trimmers .. .. 1 Brassmoulders .. .. j .. t Town). 0 4 6 0 9 9 0 6 6 0 8 6 0 10 0 0 9 8 0 6 6 0 7 0 0 6 3 0 8 8 0 10 0 0 8 10 0 6 3 0 8 7J 0 7 3 0 7 0 0 7 0 0 7 0 0 8 0 10 50 10 7 0 10 9 0 2 0 11 6 3 0 10 4 10 9 0 2 0 7 0 i l l 2 3 1 2 0 7 2 0 9 0 0 8 8 0 7 9 t 0 7 0 ! 0 9 6 I 0 7 1 Piecework, i nedin). 0 6 6 0 6 3 0 6 3 0 9 10 0 9 8J 0 6 6 0 6 6 0 7 2 0 9 3} 0 8 0 0 9 6 0 8 6 0 10 0 0 10 6 0 8 6 0 9 0 0 9 6 0 7 0 0 8 10 0 7 0 0 7 0 0 7 2 DEP6K i 3 1 0 18' 0 0 17 0 0 15' 0 U6s. per week. .ington). 0 5 0 0 7 0 0 8 0 0 7 8J 0 10 0 0 9 1 0 9 7 0 10 0 0 10 6 0 10 0 0 8 11 0 7 0 0 8 6 0 7 3 0 9 11 0 9 0 0 5 10 0 8 0 5 0 8 10 2 0 12 0 2 0 7 0 1 0 12 0 1 0 18 0 3 0 10 8 Strikers Lifters Labourers Boilermakers i Blacksmiths Improvers, Blacksmiths'.. Watchmen Machinists Turners Enginemen Fitters Tinsmiths I Coppersmiths Spring-makers Oliver-men Carpenters Trimmers Improvers, Fitters' Painters Improvers, Painters' Grinders Boilermakers' Helpers MAINTENA1 2 3 '3 9 1 1 1 0 86 0 8 4 0 90 0 12 1 0 12 0 0 9 0 0 9 0 4 1 0 12' 9 0 9 0 i 0 5' 0 2 0 8 0 1 0 18 0 NCE 10 50 General Ab iTISAI ns' Work. Per Week. 2 7 10 1 16 0 3 9 0 Per Week. Nelson Fitters .. ..11 Blacksmiths .. .. 1 Boilermakers .. .. j 1 Painters .. .. ' 1 Pictox. Fitters .. .. .. j 1 j Carpenters .. .. 1 | Painters .. .. 1 j Cleaners .. .. I 1 1 0 10 6 0 10 0 0 8 6: 0 8 6 ! j 0 9 6 ,090 0 9 0 0 7 0 10 7 0 Carpenters Carpenters' Improvers Leading Carpenters Apprentice Carpenters Leading Fitters Fitters Painters Apprentice Painters Blacksmiths .. Strikers Engine-drivers Labourers Skilled Labourers : Plumbers Plumbers' Improvers j Signal-cleaners .. I Shop Foremen .. 20 5 2 1 4 2 12 ! 12 1 2 1 2 1 3 1 I 3 0 0 2 12 6 2 17 0 2 15 9 ii 1 0 2 14 0 2 0 6 2 2 0 2 15 6 1 16 0 2 5 0 3 3 0 3 i 10 0 0 18' 0 Invebcaegi Fitters .. .. .. j -2 Enginemen .. .. j 1 Blacksmiths .. .. | 1 Carpenters .. .. | 1 ILL. 0 9 9 0 7 6 0 10 6 0 8 6 1 0 9 0 j

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Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Ages. Ages. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female.! Male. Female. I i Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 1 4 3 1 2 4 2 38 Manufacture of Biscuits, Jam: £ s. d. £ s. d. £ a. d. 1 ,0 6 0 0 6 0 4 Jo 7 30 6 3 2 0 11 8 0 7 0 0 0 10 00 9 8 5 0 12 0 0 10 0 3 0 14 4 0 15 8 ..100 12 1 9 6 0 15 0 ! Biscuit £ s. a. 0 6 0 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 9 8 0 10 0 0 15 8 ;s, Jams £ s. d. AUCK ;, &c. £ s. d. AND (PROV: 'INCIAL 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 j DISTRICT). Printing, Publishing, Bookbin< £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d 27 2 0 5 0(0 4 0 0 7 f 22 3 0 6 8:0 6 2 0 11 { 18 3 0 8 8062 24 9 0 11 80 7 11 " I 15 15 0 13 3:0 9 110 18 ( 26 9. 0 19 8l0 16 0 13 6 1 3 01 2 21 10 ' ) 211 46 2 9 2|l 14 8 2 10 ( shing, B . £ s. d. )|0 4 0 iiO 6 2 10 6 2 10 7 1 10 9 11 0 16 0 ill 2 2 :|l 14 8 Jookbind: . £ s. d. 10 7 6 0 11 5 ing, &o. £ E. d. 15 0 0 18 0 0 15' 0 1 10 8 2 10 0 15 16 17 20 Over 20 1 Fruit and Vegetable Evapor .. 0 7 01 .. 2 ..070 2 ..070 1 ..070 1 1 17 6 0 7 0 sgetable 0 7 0 0 7 0 ;o 7 0 0 7 0 Evapor: ,ting. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Cabinetmaking, Upholsterin 3 .. 0 5 01 8 2 0 5 80 4 6 10 ..089 11 1091030 5 1 0 11 110 10 0 8 ..109 5 2 1 5 9.0 16 0 i 67 8 2 3 8J0 14 91 10 1C ng, Uphi 1 0 4 6 0 3 0 0 10 0 olstering ;, &c. "2 14 15 16 17 18 20 Over 20 Sugar-refining Works. .. 0 11 8 .. 0 14 0 ..103 ..110 ..150 ' "..' 1 15 0 .. 2 6 8 .. 3 14 4 efining Works. '0 16 0 i0 14 9. 3 6 4 .1 2 1 102 3 14 4 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Basket and Perambulator M 5 ..057 1 ..060 1 .. 0 12 0 3 1 0 11 00 10 0 2 .. 0 17 6 1 ..100 2 ..150 8 ..155 3erambul 1 10 10 lator Mi .king. 0 10 0 14 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 1 1 3 1 1 1 14 Bakeries. ..050 .. 0 10 0 .. 0 19 4 .. 0 15 0 ..150 1 1 15 0 0 12 0 .. 1 18 9| iakeries. 0 12 0 15 1 16 17 18 19 Over 201 Wood-turning. I 3 ..058 3 ..080 1 ..090 "s .. 0 12* 8 I 9 ..250 Butter and Cheese Makini d Cheesi 14 15 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Makin, 1 2 2 2 1 16 .. 0 15 0 .. 0 1G 3 .. 0 13 9 ..176 .. 2 10 0 ..250 20 I Over 20 j Monumental Mason Work [ 3 1 .. II 18 41 | 6 I .. J2 16 8| :s. 18 j Over 201 Boat and Ship Building, j 1 j .. 10 19 01 I I 8 I .. il 17 8| | | 15 17 18 19 20 Over 20 "l 1 1 3 Hat and Cap Manufacturi: li- .. 0 5 0, .. 0 15 0 1 .. 0 10 0 1 11 7 6 0 12 6 2 il 0 0 0 12 6 3 12 5 100 19 10 ig14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Sawmilling. 26 ..095 32 .. 0 11 4 27 .. 0 13 11 26 .. 0 16 0 23 .. 0 17 10 19 ..113 13 .. 1 15 0 452 .. 1 17 7 ..250 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 6 5 10 7 4 4 27 Clothing-manufacturing. 6 0 5 9.0 3 6 24 ..055 45 0 8 90 6 2 57 0 12 3 0 12 6 39 1 8 60 12 6 33 1 1 90 12 2 .. 31 1 1 80 12 0 145 2 3 20 15 6 .. 6 24 45 57 39 33 31 145 icturin 0 5 0 0 7 8 0 9 4 0 11 0 0 14 9 0 14 0 0 16 2 17 20 Over 20 Agricultural Implement Making am 2 ..076 1 ..110 12 .. 1 19 5 lent M: 2 5-0 king and Repai: ring. Er 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Ingineering, Boilermaking, and Blacks) 1 .. 0 9 01 4 ... Q 5 7 11 ..072 18 ..088 7 .. 0 H 4 23 .. 0 14 7 4 ..168 131 ..247 .. 2 15 9 Blacksmithing Work: ing, am 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 9 15 11 14 14 14 7 98 Tailoring. 2 .0 4 2i0 2 6| 14 0 6 20 5 6] 12 [0 0 40 5 4| 16 !0 10 00 10 8 23 0 12 20 13 1 15 0 16 O'O 16 1 4 1 0 O'l 0 0 104 2 0 01 1 02 1 8 2 14 12 16 23 15 4 104 2 15 9 12 6 1 5 0 10 9 16 17 18 19 Over 20 Blacksmithing. 6 ..0 8 8: .. 4 .. 0 8 111 5 .. 0 14 6! 3 .. 0 11 8] 33 .. 1 13 5'j ..300 /cksmit dug. 2 18 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Dressmaking and Milliner 3i ..030 11 ..036 32 .. 0 4 10 .. 1 49 ..'0 5 7 ..( 54 ..064 ..1 41 ..088 .. 35 .. 0 15 1 .. 117 .. 0 17 7 .. ! D: Millinei ty. 3 0 0 3 11 32 49 54 41 35 117 0 10 0 0 10 1 0 13 9 15 0 1 10 0 2 15 0 5 34 23 11 8 1 14 15 16 18 Over 20 Galvanised-iron Works. 3 .. 10 11 0 1 .. 0 13 0 4 .. 0 15 6 3 ..100 20 ..196 ised-iro: Works.

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Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Ages. Ages. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. I Male. I Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Femali AU' iklan: )— contin med. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 4 9 13 12 10 8 1 96 Oai rriage and Coacl £ s. d. £ s. d. 0 8 3 0 7 11 .. 0 7 3 0 9 0 0 11 0 0 15 0 0 14 0 2 2 4 id Coacl £ s. d. h Buildi: £ s. d. 0 10 0 ig- £ s. d, 16 17 18 Over 20 Laundry-works. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d 1 .. 0 15 0 3 .. 0 12 8 2 .. 0 13 0 9 .. 0 16 10 Tanning and Currying. .. 10 9 4 .. 0 13 10 .. 0 14 7 .. 10 5 .. 1 17 0 ..150 ..200 .. 2 7 4 .. 2 10 8 Saddle and Harness Makii 4 10 5 80 5 0 1 !0 6 9 0 10 0 .. 0 7 10 ..098 .. 089 1 0 12 5 0 12 6 .. 0 17 4 .. 1 15 0 ..150 32 0 20 18 81 9 0 Boot and Shoe Manufactu 4 0 5 80 3 0, 21 0 7 0 0 6 50 9 1 20 0 9 6 0 8 0,0 14 6 26 0 12 2 0 11 9 0 14 11 21 0 14 10 14 41 1 0 15 0 14 8 0 16 101 3 7 8 0 18 10 15 91 16 9 47 2 4 31 0 71 15 2 Chemical Manufacture mdry-works. £ s. d. £ s. d, 0 15 0 0 12 8 0 13 0 0 16 10 5 and Currying. £ 8. a. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 8 8 7 8 5 2 127 urrying. Tinsmithing, anc 0 7 4 0 7 0 0 8 0 0 11 3 0 15 5 0 19 0 13 6 2 7 4 ling, am 2 10 0| d Gasfit; 1 17 0 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 )ver 20 Plurr 7 13 12 7 11 5 3 42 nbing, r ring Wi irks. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 14 20 25 28 24 21 3 55 i [ Harnes 0 5 0 0 10 0 i 2 10 8 ;s Makir 'g0 12 6 0 8 9 17 18 19 Iver 20 2 4 1 43 Pottery-woi 13 6 1 10 0 1 10 0 1 14 ' 1 ttery-woi rks. i 1 15 0 > I I 2 5 0 i 0 18 8 Shoe Ma 0 3 0, 0 6 5: 0 8 0, 0 11 9 0 14 4 0 16 10 0 15 9: 10 7 :al Mam 0 8 0 0 8 0 0 10 0 19 0 mufactu: 15 17 18 )ver 20 3 1 1 39 Meat-fi "l 1 reezing and -pre 0 12 0 0 15 0 0 15 00 14 0 3 14 81 15 0 and -pre I I 10 14 0 11 15 0 serving Works. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 31 35 41 57 49 30 8 251 p 9 1 0 14 6 0 14 11 110 13 7 1 16 9 1 15 2 ifacture. re. Jasworkt 14 15 16 )ver 20 1 1 1 62 Gasworks 0 8 0 0 8 4 0 8 8 2 3 8 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 15 18 19 20 Iver 20 14 15 16 17 19 20 )ver 20 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 (ver 20 1 1 1 1 9 24 10 6 3 1 1 15 5 3 25 6 13 2 3 29 Ropi Sail and Tent 15 p 15 0 p io o; 1 5 0! 1 10 0 12 5 0 e and Twine Ma 0 7 7 0 8 9 0 9 8 0 11 8 0 18 0 0 18 0 2 4 1 Flax-millirj 0 15 10 0 14 8 0 18 2 0 17 4 0 17 3 0 19 0 18 0 15 1 ine M: Tent Making. .nufactu: ig0 5 8 0 16 0 1 11 0 :ing. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 4 2 1 16 11 4 3 5 2 3 2 1 2 4 2 2 2 1 4 1 16 3 ..080 2 0 17 00 8 0 2 1 0 0 0 10 0 ..100 .. 2 10 0 1 1 18 9 0 19 0|2 0 0 Tea Blending and Paekin ..056 ..080 ..090 .. 0 12 6 .. 0 14 2 ..180 ..150 .. 1 18 6 Cigarette and Tobacco Mak 6 0 5 00 5 00 15 0 9 0 8 0 0 6 2! 8 0 8 90 6 0 10 0 8 9 0 8 6| 12. 1 1 3 0 10 6 4 1 1 3 0 12 0j 110 0 .. I .. 11 2 10 111 2 6,2 9 6 Flour-milling. .. 0 12 0 .. 0 9 10' .. 0 11 0 .. |0 11 6 .. 0 16 0 .. 'jl "i 4 ..140 .. !2 4 1! Watch and Jewellery Mak ..050 .. 0 15 0 .. 0 10 0 .. 0 17 6 ..100 .. 2 4 0 .. 2 10 0 Gum Packing and Sortir .. 0 10 2 .. JO 13 3 .. 10 11 11 .. 0 10 2 .. 10 0 .. la i 7 0 19 0j ling and id Tobac 0 5 0 0 6 2! 0 6 0' 0 8 6| 0 10 6 0 12 0 ■ • I 1 2 6| 2 0 0 I Paekin ceo Mak: 10 15 0 j J •• I I i|2 9 6 «. ing. 0 10 6 0 10 0 0 9 3 0 15 9 0 12 0 15 0 12 8 >ur-milli: ing. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 2 2 3 4 2 4 23 2 5 4 5 5 12 Woollen-mi 0 11 0 0 12 00 12 0 0 13 6 0 16 0 0 18 0 0 18 6 1 0 01 3 0 1 4 01 3 0 2 10 01 5 0 .lis. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 2 6 3 3 3 4 2 47 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 1 1 2 2 1 6 JewelL ;ry Mi ring. 16 17 18 19 Iver 20 2 1 "4 3 1 1 1 1 Photographic S 0 8 9p 10 0 .. 0 10 0 0 12 6 0 14 6 ..150 2 5 01 5 0 itudios. 14 15 16 18 19 iver 20 4 1 1 Oilsi 1 1 7 kin-clothing Mai 0 7 0 0 8 0 0 14 0 lufactu: ring. 14 15 16 17 18 Over 20 3 4 8 4 2 115 'g..090 ..080 .. 0 10 4

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Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages x>er Week: Piecework. Ages. Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Appi entices. Ages. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. 'emale. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female, ATJi jklan: I— continued. r. 14 15 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 Br 1 2 1 1 3 1 2 2 1 4 3 irush an( £ s. a. 0 7 0 0 9 6 0 14 0 0 11 6 0 18 0 10 0 2 11 0 d Broom Makini £ s. a. £ s. a. ig- £ s. d. U £ s. a. 14 2 ..090 16 2 ..060 17 2 ..082 Over 20 3 .. 1 12 0 Joopering. £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. a. rella-making. 0 10 0 -.. 15 0 ing and Repairing. 0 6 0 ..150 0 10 0 .. i .. 16 6: .. 15 0: 0 8 0 0 10 0 0 14 2 Umbr 17 1 .. Il 0 0 18 .. 1 I .. ' Over 20 5 .. 2 12 0 Gun Maki: 14 1 ..0 7 6: 15 1 ..0 7 0: 17 1 .. 0 15 0 19 2 .. 2 5 Ol Chf 19 I 1 | .. 11 0 01 20 I 6 | .. 12 1 8| 15 18 20 Iver 20 Papei 3 2 2 4 ir-bag an id -box Manufac 0 8 0 .. 0 14 0 0 9 0 .. rture. 0 10 0 0 11 0 0 11 6 0 12 0 >g- . . 16 17 18 19 20 )ver 20 Aerated-w 3 2 4 1 1 19 vater am 0 10 0 0 11 0 113 10 0 1 15 0 2 0 3 d Cordial Manu: i i i iacturin: aff-cuttii pirit Ma ngmufactu: Wine ana Sj 14 I ll .. 10 10 01 Over 20] 18 | .. J2 7 4[ Shi ring. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 3 ' .'. 1 2 2 3 3 1 74 Brewin; 0' 8 0 0 8 0 0 13 6 0 11 3 0 15 8 0 18 4 1 10 0 1 19 7 ana M Ialting. irt-maki; 0 7 6 0 8 0 0 9 0 0 12 0 0 10 0 0 12 4 ng. 15 2 16 4 .. 17 2 .. 18 2 .. 19 3 .. Over 20 2 13 2 2 0 Hosi iery-mak 0 6 0 dng. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 2 1 1 2 3 7 2 95 S< 0 6 9 0 12 0 0 13 9 15 0 19 3 16 0 1 17 0 ioapworks. i 1O8O i i i i 16 1 .. 19 1 20 1 .. Over 20 .. 5 Joinery and Sa 14 1 ..080 19 2 .. 0 15 0 20 1 .. 1 16 0 ,Over20 2 ..220 0 80 ash and Door I 1 0 0 10 0 Making. Biscui it ana G Jonfectionery Mi il ANG. .NUT A ND TARANAKI. na Book I rbinaing. 16 Iver 20 | 16 17 18 19 Iver 20 II .. I 5 | .. | 2 1 2 1 6 1 it and G P 10 01 |l 19 1\ P 10 01 |l 19 1\ I 0 19 6j I 0 19 6j 1 7* 6 10 0 1 11 8 Bakeries. 'I 10 0 Jring. Printing, Publis 14 13 .. 0 7 11 15 7 ..098 16 10 .. 0 12 2 17 9 1 0 15 5 18 5 110 8 19 6 1 1 1 7| 20 4 .. 1 11 8 Over 20 39 .. 2 10 9 ming, ai I | 0 10' 0 0 8 0 I |0 9 8 0 12 0 17 6 10 0 1 11 8 3 6' 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 i J I II 10 0 Cabinetmakin 15 5 .. 0 5 11 16 5 ..098 17 2 .. 0 16 6 18 2 ..100 19 2 ..100 20 2 ..126 Over 20 23 12 4 9, lg ana 1 Upholste ering. ering. 14 15 16 17 18 19 )ver 20 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 1 Bui 0 9 0 0 15 0 0 6 0 0 10 0 0 12 0 10 0 1 15 9 Bui 0 9 0 0 15 0 0 6 0 0 10 0 0 12 0 10 0 1 15 9 tter-making. ring. 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 10 0] 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 )ver 20 1 1 3 1 2 2 4 2 5 5 7 1 8 14 24 1 1 1 2 2 5 1 14 1 0 5 0 0 8 0 0 7 6 0 10 6 0 12 6 16 8 3 5* 0 1 0 5 0 0 8 0 0 7 6 0 10 6 0 12 6 16 8 failoring 0 7 6 0 5 3 0 10 0 0 6 0 0 19 2 10 3 10 9 100 Engineering, Boilermak: 17 2 0 10 01 18 1 .. 0 15 0 19 1 .. 0 15 Ol 20 5 ..10 0; Over 20 16 .. 2 12 8\ ing, anc Blaa smithini Wor] 13 0 2 0 0 2 8 0 10 0 113 1 0 0 Carriage an 14 1 ..060 15 3 ..052 16 6 ..078 17 7 .. 0 11 4 18 6 ..100 19 4 .. 0 15 6 20 2 ..150 Over 20 39 ..296 id Coaa Build: ing. 3 5* 0 13 5 Di Iressmaki ressmaki ing and Milline: t14 15 16 17 18 19 20 )ver 20 8 8 4 7 5 3 19 0 4 2 0 4 6 0 5 2 0 5 8 0 8 7 0 8 9 1 7 5 0 7* 0 7 2 2 2 |2 0 0l Fellmongery 15 1 .. 0 12 0 16 1 .. 0 18 0 Over 20 4 .. 1 19 0 and 'ool-scou :ing. 1 10* 0 1

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Ages. Number employed. Average Avernge Wages per Week : Wages per Week: Timework. Piecework. Apprentices. Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Ages. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. I Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female, WANG. .NUI AND T. ARANAKI — continued. 1 4 4 3 17 Plumbing, Tinsmithing, and Ga £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. ..076 .. 0 10 4 .. 0 11 4 .. 1 12 6 ..249 rnithing, and Gasfitting. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Flour-milling. £ s. a. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Over20[ 3 | .. |1 10 0| | | I iur-milli] £ s. d. I I ng- £ s. d. I I £ s. d, I 15 16 17 20 Iver 20 uid -preserving Works. ..200 ..250 Watch and Jewellery Making. 16 I II .. 10 15 01 I Over 201 2 | .. |3 0 0] I I I I Jewelle I 1 sry Maki I ing. I awmillir I I ig14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 1 3 2 5 4 2 1 55 Meat-freezing and -preserving ' .. 0 15 0 .. 0 17 6 .. 0 13 9 .. 0 17 6 .. 0 19 0 .. 2 0 0 ..100 .. 1 10 0 .. 1 16 0 .. 2 5 0 ,nd -pre: Sawmilling. 15 1 .. 0 12 0 16 2 ..110 17 2 ..126 18 2 .. 0 15 0 19 1 ..140 20 1 .. 1 16 0 Over 20 84 ..219 ..280 | 2 8 0 Blacksmithing. 14 1 ..050 15 2 ..090 16 2 .. 0 14 9 17 1 .. 0 12 6 Over20 10 .. 2 11 0 :ksmithi ing. Iver 20 6 Wool-dumping. I .. |2 8 0| I I fin riTTj-/-\-»*lr-n ol-dumping. 1111 ol-dump: 'I I Iver 20 5 Gasworks. I •• |2 18 0| I j 3-asworki 'I I 3-asworks. 'Ill 'III d Tent Making. I Sail and Tent Making. d Tent ] 0 10 0 16 17 20 Iver 20 "l 1 1 1 .. 0 10 0 .-. 0 15-0 1 .. 0 15 0 1 2 8 00 14 0 0 15 0 0 14 0 Aerated-water and Cordial Manufacturing. 20 I 2 1 .. 11 10 Or I I Over20| 3 I .. Il 19 i\ I "l 16 18 Iver 20 1 2 11 1 2 11 Flax-milling. I ..120 ..176 I .. 1 12 9 ax-millir >gBrewing and Malting. 18 I 2 I .. 10 16 31 I I Over20| 12 I .. 12 9 101 | I 15 16 17 Iver 20 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 4 Sadaie ana Harness Makii .. 0 11 0 .. 0 12 6 .. 0 15 0 ..200 Harne: is Maki: 'gCoopering. 17 1 .. 0 7 6 j 19 1 .. il 10 0 Over20 3 .. |l 16 8 Farm-implement Making and Repairing. Over20| 7 | .. |1 17 5| ] | | I 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 2 6 4 3 4 1 2 6 4 3 4 1 17 Boot ana Shoe Manufactur 2 0 5 0:0 5 0 10 5 10p 6 0 1 0 7 60 7 6 1 0 10 00 10 0 2 0 12 60 15 0 1 0 15 0 0 15 0 3 ..100 .. 2 10 0 lufactui ring. Sash and Door Making. 14 3 ..084 15 1 .. 0 10 0 16 11 .. 0 11 7 17 5 .. 0 10 4 18 4 .. 0 18 9 19 1 .. 0 12 0 Over 20 49 .. 2 10 2 3 1 11 5 4 1 49 *17 2 Buttermaking, &o. I .. ]1 15 0[ ] I S'S BAY. :awk: iver 20 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 2 1 3 2 5 4 4 25 1 3 2 5 4 4 25 Bakeries. .. 0 10 0 .. 0 12 6 .. 0 10 0 ..125 .. 1 10 0 ..176.. 2 2 1 91 1 0 ;, &o. Printing, Publishing, and Bookbinding. 14 6 ..050 15 7 ..072 16 4 .. 0 11 3 17 4 .. 0 16 10 18 3 .. 0 19 2 19 2 ..189 .20 4 ..174 Over 20 51 .. 2 13 3 ..300 6 7 4 4 3 2 4 51 ;hing, a: id Booi rbinding, 3 0 0 **2 Cabinetmaking and Upholstering. 14 2 .. 0 6 6 15 3 ..060 16 5 ..082 17 3 .. 0 10 10 1 18 3 .. 0 12 0 19 6 1 0 15 3 0 12 0 20 2 ..150 Over20 27 ..281 ..300 2 3 5 3 3 6 2 27 ig and Upholste ;ring. 14 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 1 3 3 2 4 3 1 Tailoring. 1 3 3 2 4 3 1 ..060 4 0 5 00 8 91 0 0 4 0 13 4 0 10 8 9 0 14 0 0 12 9 5 0 16 8 0 13 8 2 10 0 2 2 2 6 .. 2 15 0 12 2 13 81 5 3 2 10 9 4 4 9 5 2 12 100 120 0 18 0 1 10 5 0 12 0 3 0 Dressmaking ana Milliner D: *7Engineering, Boilermaking, Blacksmithing, &c. 14 1 ..086 15 1 ..060 16 3 .. 0 13 0 17 1 .. 0 10 0 18 4 .. 0 10 9 19 3 .. 0 19 10 20 3 .. 0 18 6 Over 20 47 .. 2 7 10 Engi 1 1 3 1 4 3 3 47 making, Blacki ithing, &c. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 4 ..026.. 10 ..054 13 ..072 9 .. 0 7 10 10 ..098 13 .. 0 13 2 32 .. a 1 7 4 10 13 9 10 13 32 3 7 8 2 1

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Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. .ges. Ages. Male. Female. I Male, j Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Femali haw: :e's b. iY— continued. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 1 2 3 3 3 4 1 47 Car: triage and Coaci £ s. d.£ s. d. 0 7 0 0 5 0 0 10 8 0 10 0 0 17 4 0 18 0 1 0 0 2 7 1 id Coaci £ s. d. Buildi: s. d. ; 'gI s. d. 14 4 15 4 16 1 17 2 18 1 19 1 Over 20 26 Manufacture of Booi £ s. d.£ s. d. 1 0 8 90 5 0 ..088 1 0 10 00 10 0 .. 0 10 0 .. 0 10 0 ..100 5 2 5 01 5 6 iS and i £ s. a. Shoes. £ s. d. 2 9 7 .. 14 0 Ol 20 I II Over 201 1 | Monumental Mase I .. 10 15 01 I I .. (2 2 0| on Wor] I 1 3 4 4 1 11 Plumbin ng, Tinsmithing. 0 6 0 0 6 2 0 7 0 0 10 9 0 17 6 2 10 4 dthing, and Ge :s. 14 15 16 17 19 Iver 20 .slitting. 15 3 16 2 17 3 18 2 19 1 Over 20 65 Sawmillin .. 0 12 8 .. 0 16 9 .. 0 10 10 ..176 .. 1 16 0 ..281 igIver 20 11 I •• I Brickmaki |2 7 4| .. ickmaki: ng. 12 12 2 6 5 lutworks s. 15 1 16 1 17 2 18 1 19 3 Over 20 11 Blacksmithin .. 0 10 0 ..050 .. 0 10 0 .. 0 10 0 ..134 .. 2 11 8 rsmithi: tg, &c. 17 18 20 Iver 20 14 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 1 2 1 8 1 4 2 3 4 5 160 Gutwork 10 0 19 0 1 12 0 2 6 9 Meat-freezi 0 15 0 0 18 1 10 0 12 8 14 4 1 16 0 2 8 2 'at-freezi: ig17 I 1 I Over 201 7 | Soap and Boneau I .. 10 10 01 I I .. |2 11 2| I Bonedt ist Wori :s. AS 15 1 18 1 20 1 Over 20 9 erated-water ana Coraia .. 0 10 0 ..100 .. 15 0 .. 2 19 7 I Cordi: il Mam ifacturini .. |2 18 0| 15 17 Iver 20 1 3 20 Gasworki 0 10 0 0 19 0, 2 7 101 5-asworks. d Tent Making. 16 17 Iver 20 1 1 1 1 Sail and Tent 0 15 0| 15 0' 2 8 Ol Photographic 0 6 0 iraphic Studios. i .. b 7 6 16 2 17 1 18 9 19 4 Over 20 63 2 1 9 4 63 Fellmongering and V ..126 ..176 ..111 .. 1 10 0 .. 1 12 11 ig and 'ool-sco' iring. 14 15 16 Iver 20 '*2 "*2 ..I .. 10 7 6 2 10 0,' Over 201 I5 I 15 I Wool-dump: I .. |2 16 11| ) il-dump: 1 ing. ing. 18 , 1 19 2 20 I 4 Over 20 23 Brewing and J: ..150 ..176 ..306 ..286 1 * and !\: Ialting. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 1 I 1 I 3 2 5 4 3 25 1 1 2 2 Sac We iddle and Harm 0 7 6 0 7 0 0 7 2 0 8 6 0 15 0 10 0 13 4 2 10 4 atchmaking and p 5 01 0 12 0| 1 0 ol 3 5 0| i Harness Maki 1 2 4 23 Agri 16 1 17 3 18 1 19 3 20 5 Over 201 6 Agri 1 3 1 3 5 6 •icultural-implement Mai .. p 10 0 .. 0 8 0 .. 0 15 0 .. 0 12 2 .. 2 8 11 ..236 .ent Mai ring am Repai: ring. 14 16 19 Iver 20 :ing an JewelL iry. Over 201 3 | 3 I Flour-milli I .. )2 2 8| I mr-mill: ing. 1 1 2 3 1 3 8 Biscu "l nit and Confecti 0 10 6 0 11 0 0 8 6 0 9 10 0 17 6 1 0 40 9 0 2 14 8 NGTON. 14 15 16 17 18 19 Iver 20 orks. well: 18 19 Over 20 3 Hat ana Gap Man 2 I ..076 1 .. 4 3 1817 6 lonfecti mery fap Manufacturi 0 7 6 .ufacturi ing. *8 17 6 .. 0 15 0 0 15 C Shirt-maki: irt-making. 0 8 0 0 5 0 ng14 16 If 18 19 20 Iver 20 7 2 3 6 3 4 44 "l "l Bakeries 0 7 0 0 12 6 0 16 0 0 17 0 0 12 0 17 4 1 16 0 2 8 50 10 0 0 9 0 Bakeries 14 ..1 15 16 1 17 2 18 1 19 20 Over 20 4 1 2 1 1 ..080 2 ..050 ..080 3 0 12 6 0 7 6 6 0 14 0 0 8 3 5 ..088 11 .. 0 13 9 12 2 13 40 19 0 0 7 6 0 8 3 0 8 8 0 13 9 0 19 0 2 0 0 0 12 0 0 11 3 0 15 0 0 15 4 0 17 5 4 Hosiery-manufa -manufacturing. (0 5 0 0 6 0 0 12 0 0 10 0 0 16' 0 '.'. ,0 8 0 !0 8 0 0 6 0 1 0 10 0 15 16 17 18 19 Over 20 .. 5 ..(0 5 0 4 ..060 2 .. 0 12 0 1 .. 0 10 0 2 6 .. 0 10 0 2 2 11 Br utter and Chees 0 19 0 1 10 0 2 0 0 id Chees le Makin 16 20 Iver 20 «• 0 17 6 0 15 0

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Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Number employed. Average I Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Apprentices. Ages. Ages. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. I I Male. Female. J Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. wel: .INGTi IN— contir. ,inued. nued. Car 14 1 15 ! 16' 17, 18 19 20 Iver 20 6 5 7 5 3 7 6 124 £ s. d. 5 0 5 2 11 0 7 6 17 ! 0 7 10 12 0 12 7 10 0 17 6 14 1 1 2 11 1 10 0 118 2 10 8 tailoring. £ s. a. £ s. a. 0 4 2 0 4 9 0 8 5 0 10 4 0 12 1 0 15 9 1 1 51 15 0 1 3 7I2 7 2 . £ s. d, 0 7 6 0 8 9 0 13 0 116 0 18 4 0 17 7 15 0 14 1 "1 1 1 1 14 15 i 16 17 1 18 I 19 i 20 Over 20, 5 ■.. 6, .. ! 13 . 18 , 8 9 6 70 . 5 , 6, 13 . 18 i 8 9 6 70. Carriage and Coae £ s. d.£ s. a. -.. 0 7 6 .. '0 8 5 .. 0 11 5 .. 0 12 11 .. 0 17 7 ..183 .. 1 19 6 '..254 id Coaci £ s. d. h Buildi .£ s. a. 0 5 0 0 10 0 ing. £ s. a. • '1 1 2 0 0 2 6 3 Dressmaki 2 j 11 47 48 54 26 29 101 ing ana Millinei 0 5 0 0 4 4 0 5 4 0 6 4 .. 0 8 2 0 12 3 0 17 0 14 8 Plumbing, ' Plvu ibing, Tinsmithing, an ling, an .d Gasfit rting Wi irks. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 ■yJ_ lUIIIUlllg) . 13 28 14 10 3 1 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20, 2 12 15 6 18 9i 7 71 , 2 12 ; 15 6 18 9i 7 71, ..060 .. 0 6 10 .. 0 10 6 .. 0 10 2 .. 0 12 10 .. 0 19 3 ..177 .. ,2 10 1 2 5 0 Printing, Publis 2 0 6 2 3 0 8 7| 4 0 11 2 . 9.0 14. 4 2 0 18 3J 4 14 0; 3 1 4 10 23 2 16 0 rhing, ana Book 0 5 0, JO 7 0 0 10 1 0 11 11 0 13 0 P 13 2 0 15 8 1 6 63 5 2 :binding. 1 Tinware and Ja ..070 .. 0 15 0 ..280 and Ji panning 14 15 16 17 18 19 20, Iver 20 20 29 35 33 40 24 13 307 14 17 Over 20 3 2 4 3 2 4 Brick, Tile, and Draii .. 0 12 0 .. 0 15 0 .. 0 18 0 .. 0 18 0 .. 1 80 .. 2 3 10 14 15 16 17 18 19 Over 20 Brick, 2 1 3: 9 1 5 49 2 1 3: 9 1 5 49 ipipes IV 0 10 0 iaking. I 14 15 16 17 18' 19 Iver 20 3 4 15 13 12 3 67. Cabinetmakii ..060 ..051 ..079 .. 0 12 6 1 0 17 4 1 0 18 4 12 9 1 ng ana Upholstc 0 10 0 0 10 o 1 1 2 6 2 10 0 iring. 1 16 0 2 14 0 Manure-wo .. |2 1 4| irks. 1 Over 201 «|| •• «|l 14 15 18 20 Iver 20 Per 2 2 3 rambulator and ..060 10 8 3 .. 0 14 2 1 1 2 10 1 Wickerware Me 0 5 0 bmifacti ire. 14 15 16 17 18 19 Over 20 2 5 7 5 3 3 280 Freezing-wi .. 0 10 0 .. 0 12 6 .. 0 17 6 .'. 12 6 ..168 ..150 .. 2 13 7 irks. -<J "5 0 13 0 12 0 2 16 11 14 16 17' 19 Iver 20 1 1 1 1 4 Bli) ..050 ..070 .. 0 10 0 .. 0 17 6 ..220 nd-making. I I ig15 16 Over 20 Sausa 2 2 17 Sausage-casings and .. 0 15 3 .. 0 15 0 ..215 gs and ( Gut Factor rtories. 1 15 0 Sa ..150 ..125 ..154 .. 1 9 10 ..206 ..280 ..261 Over 201 33 I .. Gaswork .. 12 5 1| xasworks I I s. I I 15 16 17 18 19 20 iver 20 1 6 3 5 5 23 337 twmillin >g15 0 14 15 16 18 19 Over 20 1 1 1 2 2 3 1 6 8 Sail and Tent 1, 0 6 010 5 C 1 .. 0 6 C 2 0 12 00 10 6 a Tent : 10 5 0{ 0 6 0 0 10 6 0 12 9 0 14 0 1 7 9! Making. I 3 .. 0 12 S |2 1 5| Worl 1 .. 0 14 C 8 2 0 01 7 S 1 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 Inginee 1 5 19 15 16 11 4 173 iring, Boilermak ..060 ..083 .. 0 11 0 .. 0 15 6 .. 0 16 4 .. 0 19 5 ..150 .. 1 14 1 ring, am d Black: rmithinj :s. 14 I 16 I 2 I .. 1 J .. Rope and Twin ..086 .. 0 14 0; id Twine e Works. Flax-milli .. 0 12 6 .. 0 11 6 .. 0 14 10 .. 0 17 7 ax-millii 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 2 11 15 17 7 13 122, °gElectric I .. 12 15 01 .. |3 1 2| 110 1 10 0 1 15 0 1 11 4 1 11 6 2 0 1 20 I Iver 201 1 9 I Lighti ing, &e. .. 120 .. .. 1 4 11 Bla, ..030 ..086 .. 0 10 0 .. 0 10 0 .. 0 12 9 .. 0 19 0 .. 0 19 0 ..292 rksmith: ing. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Clothing, V 1 5 2 8 8 8; 5 4 3 5 7 2 2 62 29 ding, Woollen Goods, ..080 2 0 10 5 0 6 ( 8 0 12 0 0 11 1( 5 0 13 9 0 11 < 3 0 18 0 7 1 7 0 0 10 ( 2 1 15 6 0 12 ( 29 2 11 51 1 ( Goods, < l fee, Ma) nufactur [ -I ring. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 1 2 2 1 2 3 3 32 i 10 6 6 10 11 10 10 11 9 0 16 0 0 18 7 0 18 4 14 1 0 12 6 17 8 f I 10 10 0 10 12 0 1110 i 1 14 9

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Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. i Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Number employed. Apprentices. Apprentices. Ages. Ages. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. [ale. Female. Male, i Female. I Male. Female. Male. Female. WELLINGT' »N— com linued. 14 15 17 18 Iver 20 2 2 1 1 9 .. I .. I .. I *13 I Photogr £ s. d. 0 6 9 0 7 6 0 12 0 1 10 0 19 5 •aphic Studios. £ s. d.£ s. d.£ s. d. 15 16 17 18 Over 20 2 3 1 4 11 2 3 1 4 11 Watchmaking and Jewellery. £ s. d.£ s. d.£ s. d. £ s. d. .. 0 14 3 ..080 .. 0 10 0 2 0 16 0 0 11 9 .. 2 13 2 Jewell) ! s. d. iry. £ s. a. 18 3] 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 1 1 3 Water 2 I 6 I 11 i 9 4 3 2 17 irproof-cl 0 10 Ol 0 5 0 0 10 0 lothing i p 6 3 0 6 9 0 9 1 0 10 5 0 8 3 0 9 0 0 10 9 14 5 ]anufa. iture. 14 15 16 17 18 19 Over 20 1 3 3 3 1 2 24 1 3 3 3 1 2 24 Candle and Soap Making. 1 0 7 00 6 0 2 0 9 00 7 0 .. 0 12 0 2 0 18 0 0 14 9 1 0 18 0 0 12 6 3 1 0 0 0 14 2 ..244 Makin, ' 1 1 7* 6 "5 2 50 1 15 0| At 3 3 6 2 5 2 27 .Srated-water ana Coraial Manufacturin ..068 .. 0 10 0 .. 0 14 11 ..126 .. 1 4 0 ..176 .. 1 13 4 14 15 16 17 18 19 Over 20 A, 3 8 6 2 5 2 27 il Mam facturin. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 1 i 3 1 i 9 2 I ■ 2 14 i Lau 0 5 0 mdry-wc 0 10 0 0 12 0 0 15 0 0 14 11 0 18 0 110 13 3 irks. 1 "l 0 18* 0 "2 0 18* 0 1 9* 4 0 12 0 "9 14 17 19 Iver 20 1 2 "4 Port: .. I .. I 1 tmanteai 0 5 0 0 10 0 2 10* 0 u and B 0 10 0 lag Ma] ring. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 3 1 1 4 2 1 1 42 3 1 1 4 2 1 1 42 Fellmongery ana Woolscouring. ..080 .. 0 12 0, 0 10 0 .. 1 4 9j .. 1 10 0; .. 1 16 Oj .. 1 10 0 .. 2 1 2l .. 2 10 0 and foolscour 0 10 0 ring. i % and Ci 14 15 16 17 19 Iver 20 3 2 2 4 5 114 .. I 1 i I Tanning 0 16 8 0 15 0 0 17 6 18 9 1 10 5 1 12 1 0 5 0 irrying. Over 201 27 | 27 I Brewing ana Malting. I .. |3 8 1| I j I g and 2 10 0 rial ting. I -I I' I "l : looperi: g14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 3 1 3 4 8 4 6 27 Sad .. ( .. ( ddle and 0 7 0 0 7 6 0 12 6 0 13 9 0 16 7 16 3 13 3 2 13 2 Harnei |2 1 10| ss Maki: |l 5 ng14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 5 8 8 10 9 8 2 121 5 8 8 10 9 8 2 121 Coopering. .. 0 6 10 .. 0 10 0 .. ,0 12 0 .. p 15 2 .. 0 18 1 .. 0 18 8 .. |l 12 4 .. 12 6 11 .. 3 0 0 .. < .. I 3 0 0 "l : Dn "l 1 1 1 "*2 Dn rugs ana Herbal Remedies Manufacturi 4 I ..076 4 0 10 0 0 7 6 .. 0 15 0 2 1 0 0 0 10 0 ..150 1 .. 0 10 0 1 .. 0 15 0 ..226 ies Man 2 0 0i lufactur: ing. 15 16 18 Iver 20 1 1 1 1 Vhip-tho 0 8 0 0 8 0 0 18 0 2 2 0 >ng Man mfacturi 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 1 1 1 1 "2 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 7 10 19 16 7 9 2 166 Bo, 1 14 22 4 14 4 ot and I 0 7 6 0 7 10 0 9 4 0 10 7 0 15 0 0 17 6 12 6 2 8 2 pairing i 0 14 0 0 14 0 10 0 2 15 2 Shoe Me 0 5 0) 0 5 5 0 8 8! 0 10 0 0 12 8 0 11 6 anufactu 11 i;0 9 8 10 18 5 il 0 9 il 5 0 ire. 17 I Over 20 [ I 51 1 2 Monumental Mason Works. I .. II 0 01 I I I .. |2 0 0| I 5n Works. ■ 0 14 4 l 16 1 17 I Over 20 j Agri 1 1 j I 2 Agri 1 2 icultural-implement Repairing and Mai I .. i0 12 61 I I I .. 2 1 6| I I lairing and Ma] ring. *72 15 9 i2 2 10 1 19 6 15 17 19 Iver 20 1 1 1 11 Be] 1 ana Dye 0 5 0 sing W01 rks. I 5| Boat-building. I .. |1 16 0| | [ "l 2 Over 20 I 5 ig0 10 0 0 15 0 15 16 17 18 19 Over 20 1 1 "l **3 1 1 "l **3 Brush-making. 1 0 8 00 7 0 .. 0 10 0 1 .. 0 11 0 .. 0 17 0 1 .. 0 17 0 1 1 18 91 6 0 ig14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Ivex20 4 7 8 3 6 2 1 6 Te 3a Blend 0 8 9 0 8 4 0 9 8J 0 14 5 0 18 0 0 17 6 1 10 0 2 7 1 ling and Packi: «• 16 I Over 20 j Mar I 1 I ! 101 Mai i rine Repairing-yards (Union S.S. Compi I .. p 18 0, [ I I |3 0 Oj tny). 19 Iver 20 j 1 12 Flo 1 15 0 2 10 9, lur-milli: 'g15 1 Over 20 1 n 1 4 Sewing-machine Repairing. I .. 10 10 01 1 I .. |a 8 il I ,. I

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Ages. Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Ap',.c entices. Ages. Male. Female, i Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. | Female. | Male. [Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. NI ILSON AND .1ARLBOROUGH. Jam, Biscuit, and Confe £ s. d. £ s. d. 4 2 0 8 60 6 0 1 3 0 6 00 6 0 4 2 0 9 00 6 0 2 .. 0 13 3 3 .. 0 18 8 1 2 1 2 00 10 6 7 3 2 1 10 0 12 8 ,a Confectior £ s. a. £ s 0 6 0 0 6 0 0 6 0 rtionery £ s. d. 3. Makini i Brickworks. & s. d. £ s. a. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 14 I 1 I .. 10 7 01 | i I Over20| 4 I ... ,|2 8 0| I I I I 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 0 10 6 0 12 8 Freezing-works. Over20| 18 I .. |2 10 01 .. ,3 10 01 | I Gasworks. Bakeries. 0 10 0 i 10 0 0ver20| 13 | .. 12 18 8| I | | I 15 16 17 18 19 Iver 20 Bakeries 4 .. 0 7 91 3 1 0 12 4 0 10 0 6 .. 0 13 10 1 ..150 2 .. 1 19 6 17 12 3 01 10 0 Photographic Stuaios. 16 1 1 0 5 00 7 6 17 1 ..076 19 1 ..076 20 1 ..150 Over 20 3 ..100 15 18 20 Butter-mak: 1 ..080 1 .. 0 15 0 1 .. 2 10 0 ;ter-maldng. Tanning. 16 1 ..050 17 1 .. 0 15 0 18 1 .. 0 15 0 Over20 1 .. 1 13 0 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 iver 20 Dressmakii essmaking. 4 .. 0 5 10 11 .. 0 5 11 13 ..075 13 .. 0 12 2 5 .. 0 12 6 41 ..120 0 5 10 0 5 11 0 7 5 0 12 2 0 12 6 12 0 1 6 11 14 4 4 1 1 Flax-milling. 14 1 ..080 15 2 .. 0 11 0 16 4 .. 0 14 3 17 5 .. 0 16 2 18 9 .. 0 17 4 . 19 6 .. 1 0 10 20 7 .. 0 18 7 Over20 75 .. 1 1 1$ .. 1 19 9 ,x-milli: ig17 18 iver 20 Shirt-makii 4 .. 0 4 6[ 1 ..026 3 .. .. I irt-making. 0 4 6[ 0 2 6 1 19 9 Saaaie ana Harness Making. 15 1 ..050 16 1 ..050 17 1 .. 0 12 6 18 1 ..076 20 1 .. 0 15 0 Over 20 6 .. 1 16 0 ss Maki • 1 9 6 mg. 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 Tailoring 2 2 0 13 0 0 7 6, 3 4 0 12 2 0 12 6 3 .. 0 10 10 2 4 0 17 6 0 17 6 3 2 0 19 8 0 18 9 16 13 2 4 90 16 0 lailoring. 0 7 6, 0 12 6 0 17 6 0 18 9 0 16 0 "l Flour-milling. 20 I 1 | .. [0 15 0] I 1 I Over201 8 | .. |l 9 2j! | I 1 I 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 Printing, Publishing, ar 2 ..076 8 ..074 7 .. 0 11 1 8 .. 0 14 8 10 .. 0 19 0 2 1 1 3 90 12 6 3 ..150 46 2 2 17 61 15 0 Cabinetmaking and 1 ..060 4 ..066 3 ..078 2 .. 0 17 3 1 ..126 1 ..100 12 1 2 2 10 0 18 0 rhing, and Boo] linding. Sawmilling. 16 2 ..116 17 1 ..110 20 5 .. 1 13 0 Over 20 85 .. 1 15 0 ..250 0 12 6 1 15 0 Aeratea-water and Cordial Manufacture. 16 1 | .. 0 10 0 I 17 2 .. 0 15 0 Over 20 10 I ..213 .. [2 0 0 ng and "pholsti iring. 14 15 16 18 19 20 Iver 20 Wool-dumping. Over20l 4 | .. |2 0 0| | I j I 16. 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 Engineering, Boilermaking, 3 ..090 5 .. 0 13 5 3 .. 0 13 10 5 .. 0 15 9 8 ..100 38 .. |2 12 9 0 18 0 making, 3 15 0| Blacksi d thing. &c. Brewing and Malting. 16 3 .. 0 16 Oj 19 1 .. 1 10 0 20 1 ..180 Over 20 42 .. 1 10 0) Carriage and Coacl 2 ..050 2 ..076 4 ..094 4 .. 0 10 0 4 .. 0 18 1 4 ..196 16 .. 2 11 5 id Coaci Build: i ing. Bootmaking. 15 1 ..050 16 1 0 10 0 17 2 .. .. .. 0 11 0 18 1 0 11 0 Over 20 .. 1 .. .. ..100 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 Chaff-cutting. Over20l 8 | .. |1 19 41 j | | I 17 18 19 Iver 20 Plumbing, Tinsmithing, am 1 .. 0 10 0 1 ..100 1 .. 0 15 0 4 ..279 1 5 C d Gasfi: ,ting W, >rks. Sash and Door Making. 20 | 1 I .. 12 0 01 I I Over20| 22 | .. (1 18 lo| | Lime-burning. Over20l 2 I .. 12 0 01 I I I I

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Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Ages. Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Appi entices. Ages. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. [ale. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. CI IRISTCHURCI [ (CA iTERB RY PR< GVINC HAL Di [STRICT pholsteri £ s. d. 0 5 5 0 8 4 0 9 5 0 12 7J 0 18 6 1 11 2 2 2 6 f). Jam, Confectione £ s. a. -. 2 ..060 6 1 0 6 8} l 7 5 0 7 81 6 3 0 11 41 6 4 0 11 01 4 4 0 12 21 2 2 1 2 01 42 I 6 2 1 01 3ry, and £ s. d. Biscuit Makin; £ s. a. £ s. d, i Cab linetma iking, TJ ing, and £ s. d. Furniture Mar £ s. a. £ s. d. lufactt •e. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 0 5 0 0 5 5 0 7 8 0 9 6 0 6 6 0 9 6 0 13 3 .. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 12 14 9 8 5 5 51 "l 1 0 10 0 0 12 6 4 10 0 1 10 oj .1 10 o| 14 15 17 18 20 Over 20 2 2 2 1 1 10 Che 0 4 6 0 7 6 0 9 6 0 15 0 10 0 2 6 0 air-maki ing. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 I 7 ..080 5 ..098 3 .. 0 11 8 11 ..110 9 115 0 5 ..197 73 1 1 13 0 Bakeries i !. 1 1 , '0 10 0 0 12* 6 E 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Cnginee: 4 11 21 16 20 11 4 116 ring, Bi lilermaki 0 5 0 0 7 0 0 7 4 0 10 4 0 14 3 0 15 9 16 3 2 6 3 Blacks I rmithinj Work, ing, am Butter an< 1 .. 0 16 Oj 2 .. 0 12 61 1 ..15 0! 1 - ., 1-5 0 17 .. 1 18 10| ,d Cheesi Maki; 14 15 19 20 Over 20 'g16 17 18 Hat an, id Cap 1 0 4 Oj 0 8 0 0 8 0| ]aking. .. | 1 .. i .. i 1 ..i .. i 1 ..i 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Ca: rriage an 0 5 4 0 7 2 0 9 3 0 13 10 0 15 5 119 2 3 7 id Coac] Build: mg. 14 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Shi 1 .. 1 .. 3 .. i 5 .. 4 .. 5 .. , 11 ..i irt-makii 0 2 6 0 6 0 0 8 0 0 8 8 0 10 0 0 10 6 0 18 2 «• 9 6 8 10 22 7 79 0 11 0 0 11 6 Il 17 0| ring Wc I irks. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Plur 1 4 6 7 12 4 6 34 mbing, ' rinsmith 0 8 0 0 6 6 0 9 0 0 10 1J 0 13 8 0 18 0 0 17 10 2 2 0 dng, am d Gasfit' 0 12 6 15 16 17 18 19 Over 20 Hosiery 2 .. 2 .. i 2 5 .. i 1 .. | 9 .. i j, Knitti: 0 5 0 0 2 6 ing, &c. ., 0 8 0 0 13 6 0 12 0 0 16 9 0 6 0 0 9 0 0 12 7 ,. "l .. 0 13 7 Brick an 0 2 6 0 18 0 0 12 0 0 15 0 1 10 0 1 16 0 1 16 2 1 4 0| id Tile * Working 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Clothin 1 10 5 0, 2 15 0 5 0 3 29 0 10 10 8 39 0 8 5 9 41 0 13 7 11 39 0 14 5 1 11 .. 79 233 2 11 5 ig-manul 0 5 0 0 4 5 0 6 10 0 6 11 0 7 10 0 8 101 0 12 8i 0 19 3 facture. 14 15 16 17 19 23 Over 20 1 2 2 3 1 1 55 t # ., 0 12 6 0 13 3 0 12 8 0 14 4 0 14 6 0 18 11 0 18 5 14 0 11 0 17 0 0 14 6 1 17 7 1 12 6 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Free zing anc 0 14 7 0 15 8 0 17 3 0 16 7 1 0 10 12 6 16 0 2 2 6 I Preser rving W( irks. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 1 8 1 0 6 2|, 8 5 0 5 6', 16 15 0 8 9 11 15 0 11 1 8 17 o ii io;, 13 21 0 17 6 11 14 1 4 8, 106 84 2 10 9|i lailoring |0 8 61 '0 4 4 p 5 6 0 10 0 6 12 6 p 14 2 0 17 7 p 19 6 0 2 6 0 7 0 0 12 3 0 13 0 0 17 11 0 18 4 1 2 10 3 2 4 12 11 6 5 307 2 3 2 10 0 10 0 1 2 10 . , "l 2 12 6 17 6 2 2 0 17 0 1 12 0 3 0 ( 18 | Over 20 j I 4 I 13 I Sausi age-cash |1 8 9I |l 18 Ijl r ng ana l I Gut Mi ring. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Dressmaki ing and Milliner i 30 91 93 47 54 54 165 • • 0 3 4J1 0 4 2 0 6 6j 0 7 7 0 8 10 0 16 3 116 .. I I .. 31 27 32 17 8 2 1 i I Jasworks 17 18 19 Over 20 2 1 1 28 0 10 0 0 12 0 0 18 0 2 14 2| 1 18 19 Over 20 1 1 1 . 2 Pateni 0 12 6 0 12 6 0 12 6 18 9 i-fuel iking. Printing, Publis 7 ..0 5 7, 18 4 0 7 6 39 3 0 8 8 27 5 0 12 7, 25 4 0 15 2 23 11 0 19 1 8. 6'1 5 2 269 17 2 15 5 shing, ar nd Book rbinaing. 1 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 ;o 5 4 10 6 0 •0 8 0 10 6 3 .0 8 3 10 11 6 1,0 13 11 0 7 2 10 8 7 10 9 7 i ' 0 .15 0 0 .9 6 15 16 17 19, Over 20 1 1 1 1 7 Sail an< 0 5 0 0 7 6 0 13 6 10 0 2 7 0 Tent ]aking. 0 10 7 0 17 9 0 18 7 3 2* 4 \2 0 Ol

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Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Number employed. Aver; Wages pe, Timev, ige I • Week: 'ork. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Apprentices. Ages, j Ages. Male, Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. I i Male. I Female. Female. Male. I Female. I Male. Female, CHRISTCHURCH (CA TER] lURY PROVINCIAL DISTRI C AL I 51 DISTRICT)— co; Coffee an £ s. a. .. 10 7 61 .. Il 13 111 ntinued. 14 16 Iver 20 Rope and Twine Works. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d, 0 10 0 ..150 1 16 0 Flax-milling. 0 12 0 0 15 0 0 11 4 0 11 7 10 14 4 ..070 10 18 6 tl 11 0 [l 11 9 .. 1 17 6 18 I 1 I .. 1 Over 201 5 | .. i id Chicory Milli £ s. d.£ s. d. 81 £ s. d. 2 2 1 Over 201 12 | .. 12 I Ham ani .. |2 1 81 d Bacon Curing I ! I 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 2 1 5 6 9 8 7 19 14 1 15 1 16 4 17 4 18 4 19 6 20 1 Over 20 87 12 1 1 4 4 4 6 1 87 1 1 4 4 4 6 1 87 Flo .. 0 10 0 ..050 .. 0 10 10 .. 0 13 2 .. 0 19 5 .. 0 19 7 .. 1 10 0 ..264 )ur-milling. 0 7 0 1 17 6 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 15 14 22 9 9 6 3 138 3 14 19 19 15 12 9 97 Woollen-mills. 0 8 50 7 0 09707 11 .. 0 12 6 0 11 40 9 0 .. 0 13 3 0 16 4 0 10 9 .. 0 12 8 0 17 6 0 13 31 2 80 14 7 0 19 0 .. 1 6 00 14 7 1 3 9 0 15 0 .. 0 18 11 2 5 . 21 2 02 0 lljl 4 8 Flock-making. 10 8 Oj [ I I lollen-mi 0 7 0 0 7 11 0 9 0 0 10 9 0 13 3 ills. 12 8 16 0 2 Oil! 0 12 6 0 13 3 0 12 8 10 14 7 10 14 7 p 18 11 .jl 4 8 Chafi 1 3 20 1 3 20 Chaff-cutting ..076 ..126 ..192 ;, Corn-, rrushing. &o. 16 1 19 3 Over 20 20 16 Iver 20 1 5 Carpet-weaving. 1 , 1-1 -1-1 r\\ I .. ) .. II 11 01 0 15 0 12 0 >ck-maki: I I 'I i pet-weav I •■ I ing. [ I 'ing. II 11 Oi 1 »l I Wai 14 1 15 1 16 3 17 3 18 4 19 2 20 3 Over 20 15 1 1 3 3 4 2 3 15 1 1 3 3 4 2 3 15 Pera 2 3 1 Watch ana ..050 ..030 .. 0 10 0 .. 0 16 6 .. 0 18 1 .. 0 17 6 .. 1 15 0 .. 2 13 1 ambulator and .. 0 12 0 .. 0 12 4 .. 0 15 0 Jewell, iry Mai ring. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 Photographic Studios. raphic S Studios. 2 4 3 1 1 1 2 4 2 4 4 2 3 2 0 7 60 5 0 0 10 100 6 0 0 10 00 6 1 1 0 Op 10 6 10 0 0 16 30 10 2 2 5 01 5 0 0 5 0 0 6 0 0 6 1 '.0 10 0 Perambulat 15 2 16 3 17 1 18 1 19 1 20 1 Over 20 7 1 Pel 2 3 1 Wickerv 0 9 0 -are Mi jiufactu: re. 0 10 2 15 0 1 1 7 1 1 7 1 .. ..170 ..100 1 1 16 0 15 0 Laundry-works. mdrv-wo p 10 Oi |l 0 0| 2 15 Oj 17 Iver 20 >rks. 5 5 13 12 6 6 6 30 Cy ..045 .. 0 5 6 .. 0 7 11 .. 0 10 5 .. 0 12 3 .. 0 15 10 .. 0 16 3 ..212 rele-worl is. 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 8 2 3 1 55 1 13 Tai 1 .. p 10 01 1 I .. |l 0 o| ,nning and Currying Works. 0 15 7 10 0 1 12 0 1 10 0 2 5 7 .. !2 4 3 id Curry ■ing Works. |2 4 3 14 5 15 5 10 13 17 12 18 6 19 6 20 6 Over 20 30 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 1 2 5 2 3 2 22 Sad 1 "3 idlery and Harness Making. 0 7 6;0 3 0 0 7 6| 0 11 5 0 17 6 0 16 80 7 0 16 3 J2 6 9 .. 1 18 9 id Harn 10 3 0 ,ess Making. Veneti 15 1 16 1 17 1 18 2 Over 20 2 1 1 1 2 2 Venetian-blind ..080 ..080 ..080 ..150 ..250 and S] lutter iaking. 0 7 0 1 18 9 14 I 1 .. [ 15 1 16 1 Over 201 1 .. I *D,'n 1 1 1 1 Wood .. [0 5 0 .. p 7 6 .. 0 5 0 .. [2 8 0 [-turnini li &<*• 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 6 31 47 44 24 29 16 379 Boo 4 35 23 33 15 11 10 74 To ot and Shoe Manufacturing. 0 5 4043 0 5 70 5 9 0 7 30 7 5 0 9 10 0 9 70 15 00 8 0 0 13 70 10 2 0 18 8j0 18 6 1 3 20 13 111 10 0 2 5 all 1 91 15 101 15 0 'ea Blending and Packing. 0 7 0, 0 6 10 0 7 11 ..096 0 9 10 0 14 0 12 6 1 15 4 ..200 hoe Mai 0 4 3 0 5 9 0 7 5 0 9 7 0 10 2 iO 13 6 0 13 11 [l 1 9 -nufaoturing. I i ring. i '0 15 00 8 i 0 8 0 Pia 16 1 2 .. j 17 3 20 2 Over20j 7 2 3 2 7 Piano Maki .. ,0 9 0 .. 0 11 0 .. 0 15 0 ..249 ing and Repairi mg. .1 10 0 il 15 101 15 1 15 0 14 15 16 17 18 20 Iver 20 3 4 10 6 3 1 9 ling and 1 Packing. 0 9 6 'g. 14 1 .. 15 4 16 8 17 8 18 3 19 7 20 1 Over 20 85 1 4 8 8 3 7 1 85 Si ..080 ..079 .. 0 10 1 .. 0 13 0 .. 0 16 4 .. 0 19 5 ..280 ..215 iwmilli] «• , and V: 0 8 0 2 0 0 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 "4 Pickle 1 "4 1 2 2 e, Sauce, and Vinegar Works. ..080 0 11 2 ..099 .. . 0 10 0 ..090 3 0 00 13 6 0 9 9 0 10 0 0 9 0 0 13 6 Inegar Works. I i l l BlaoJi 16 1 17 5 19 3 20 3 Over 20 26 1 5 3 3 26 Blacksmithin, .. 0 10 01 .. 0 9 111 .. 0 17 6 .. 1 10 10 .. ,2 6 4 ig and |l 15 Oi llillwrigl iting. "l 2 10

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Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Ages. Ages. 1 Male, j Female. I I Male. I Female. Male. Female. Male, j Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. I Male, j Female. Male. Female CHRISTCHURi 3H (CANTERBURY PROVINCIAL DISTRICT)— continued. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 4 7 12 14 13 12 151 4 7 12 14 13 12 151 Agricultural-implem £ s. a. £ s. a. ..090 ..084 .. 0 10 11 .. 0 12 11 .. 0 17 2 ..167 ..264 1-implement Mai £ s. a. £ s. a. uent Ma . £ s. a. ring. £ s. a. I Coopering. £ s. a.£ s. a.£ s. &.£ s. , 16 1 .. 0 10 0 17 1 .. 0 12 0 18 2 .. 0 16 0 19 1 .. 1 10 0 20 2 .. 1 10 0 Over20 13 ..262 s. d.£ s. d. d. 14 15 16 17 18 Iver 20 2 1 1 1 1 6 2 1 1 1 1 6 Brush-maki ush-maki ing. a o a mg. 0 8 6 Monumental Masonry. 17 1 .. 0 10 Oj 18 1 .. 0 16 Ol Over 20 7 .. 1 16 111 .asonry. 1 .'. 0 8 0 ..060 1 .'. 0 15 0 .. 1 11 3 1 1 0 10 0 19 6 0 10 0 1 9 6 Wire-working ana Nail-making. 14 2 .. 0 5 Oj .. 0 10 01 15 1 .. 0 12 0 16 2 .. 0 10 0 .. 0 10 0 Over20 3 .. 1 7 0 I ig ana I rTail-mal" 0 10 01 ring. 0 10 0 14 | Iver 201 1 16 Soap and Candle .. 10 10 Oj .. |2 2 5| d Oandlf 3 Works. e Works I! I Joinery Work ana Sash-aoor Making 15 3 ..050 16 1 ..076 18 3 .. 0 12 6 19 1 .. 0 15 0 Over20 15 ..287 ina Sas] h-aoor 1 g-i-aoor Mi faking. , 'I , I 14 15 16 17 18 19 iver 20 1 3 1 1 1 2 16 .erated-water and Cordi ... 0 10 0 ..074 .. 0 12 0 1 0 15 00 15 0 ..100 .. 0 13 9 .. 1 17 6 na Corai ial Mam ial Manufactur, 0 15 0 Grain ana Seea Cleaning. 17 2 .. 0 13 9 18 2 .. 0 15 0 20 1 ..150 Over20 29 ..215 Seea iloaning. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 iver 20 12 4 8 17 15 19 8 179 Fellmongering ana \A .. 0 9 5 ..092 .. 0 13 11 .. 0 18 4 ..138 ..133 ..128 .. 2 10 8 .. ! and V Wool-scoi 2 7 8 Vool-scouring. Dentistry. 15 1 ..076 19 a .. 0 15 0 Over20 1 ..176 Portmanteau ana Bag Making. 16 1 ..0 8 0, 19 1 .. 0 17 6 Over20 1 ..150 Chemicals ana Drug Manufacture. 14 2 ..060 16 1 .. 0 10 0 17 1 .. 0 14 0 18 1 ..100 Over 20 8 .. 12 12 1! 2 7 8 15 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 1 1 1 1 1 87 Brewing and M .. 0 10 0 .. 0 15 0 .. 0 15 0 ..150 .. 1 10 0 ..222 .. Malting. 2 13 ilalting. Manufa, iture. Bakeries. ..080 ..080 .. 0 10 0 ..113 .. 10 0 ..113 1. west: LAND. 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 1 1 1 2 1 4 Brickworks. 17 2 .. il 4 0 j 19 1 .. 12 0 0 Over 20 8 .. 13 8 i I Gasworks. Over20j S| ., |2 10 10| | | I 15 16 17 18 19 20 )ver 20 1 **2 1 "l Tailoring .. 0 15 0 1 ..050 .. 0 11 3 1 0 15 00 15 0 1 ..100 1 .. 0 10 0 2 2 5 01 2 6 Tailoring I y. I I I I Coffee-roasting, &c. Over20| 2 | .. j2 5 0| ) | I I 0 5 0 i Sawmilling. 14 1 .. 0 10 0 15 2 .. 0 12 6 16 2 ..150 17 2 ..139 18 3 .. 1 12 0 19 4 .. 1 16 6 20 1 ..280 Over20 30 .. 2 15 9 ..300 ! 10 15 0 10 0 0 10 0 112 6 17 18 19 2 1 1 Dressmaking and 01 a 17 a 2 ..076 -1 r\ in n :ing and 0 7 6 0 10 0 0 15 0 Milliner ! Milliner *y1 .. 0 10 0 -1 a 1 k n ..300 1 .. 0 15 0 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 )ver 20 2 1 2 2 1 4 3 5 Printini Printing, Publishing, ai ..026 ..076 10 7 6 0 10 0 ..093 ..- 0 12 6 2 1 1 100 8 0 11 7 0 0 15 0 ..220 shing, ai iO 10 0 I 10 8 0 10 15 0 I ,nd Book I I I id Boo] rbinding. Brewing and Malting. Over20| 10 | .. \2 16 0| | | g and Malting. I I I I "l Bone-crushing. Over20| 1 | .. 13 12 0| | | ae-crushing. I I I I I I "2 1 Blacksmithing. 16 1 .. p 10 0 r 17 1 ..100 Over20 2 .. |3 5 0 ,cksmithing. I (

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Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Axiprentices. Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Ages. Ages. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. j Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female, dun: SDIN. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 Ji 15 17 17 14 6 6 5 56 ,xa, Bis, 2 19 7 2 4 3 6 cuits, ar £ s. a. 0 5 4| 0 7 10 0 8 71 0 11 § 0 13 2j 0 15 5 0 18 0 2 3 li nd Conft £ s. d. 0 5 0 10 5 2 10 7 0 JO 6 0, '0 8 0 0 11 4 JO 13 6 rotioner £ s. a.' j Makin £ s. a. 'g14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 17 26 25 22 21 28 17 155 Printing 2 3 3 2 4 2 13 g, Publis £ s. a. 0 0 8 0 7 8 0 8 11 0 10 4 0 12 11 0 18 0 10 7 2 10 11 shing, ana Book] £ s. d. £ s, d. . 0 6 8 0 6 1 0 7 6 0 '9 0 0 11 0 0 14 5 ad Booi £ s, d. [binding. £ s. d. rbinaing, £ s. a. 0 16* 13 3 4i 3 3 4 15 0 15 0 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 3 7 5 6 11 5 5 60 I 0 6 8 0 7 7 0 9 7 0 15 9 0 16 9 12 6 14 2 2 3 11 3akeries. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 2 6 5 7 16 8 3 49 Cabin "l 1 5 letmakin 0 6 3 0 6 2 0 6 0 0 9 0 0 11 3 0 13 4 0 18 0 2 4 6 ig and Upholste Upholste aring. rring. "l 0 15 0 0 5 0 0 15 0 10 0 "l 0 7 0 1 17 61 9 0 15 16 17 20 Iver 20 1 1 2 3 6 Bi utter an, 0 9 3 0 12 0 .0 12 . 6 13 4 2 10 4 d Chees ;e Maki: 'g14 15 18 Over 20 Ve 3 1 1 4 enetian-l ilind am 0 6 0 0 8 0 0 12 0 1 15 6 a Shutter Manu ifacturin ifacturi: 'g14 15 18 19 20 Over 20 W, 00a Tun p 5 0 0 5 0 0 15 0 |0 16 3 1 10 0 2 11 2 ning ana Carvin 1 ! j ig- «■ 14 15 16 18 19 Iver 20 1 "l 1 1 Hat and 0 6 0 0 7 6 I Cap F 0 5 0 0 5 0 ,ctories, 1 1 1 1 1 16 "l 150 0 12 6 "l 1 "2 15 0 2 0 Ol Be 0 10 0 0 10 4 0 10 0 ox-making. 0 7 0 0 7 0 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 1 2 2 9 6 12 8 37 Shi t irt-makii 0 5 0 0 6 9 0 11 0 0 9 2 0 15 0 10 8 "g14 15 16 19 Over 20 1 3 2 **2 1 1 4 1 0 13 7 J j 0 9 0 0 12 0 2 5* Ol 0 15 0 0 14 8 0 16 0 0 17 8 0 17 8 17 20 Over 20 Piano ] Manufac 0 7 6 0 15 0 1 15 0 rsturing and Rep pairing. I I 1 211 1 1 1 6 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 15 11 15 21 14 10 10 12 Hosi iery-mal 0 7 0 0 9 2 0 9 2 0 11 1 0 14 10 0 14 0 0 16 0 0 18 1 ring. Se awmilling. .. :0 6 0, 0 6 0 0 10 0 0 13 8 0 16 8 0 18 0 0 17 0 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 1 2 8 7 5 7 10 120 1 8 7 0 8 9 ,0 10 0 0 15 10 p 15 10 p 14 0 [12 7 '2 11 7 Olothin 0 5 0 0 5 5 0 8 3 0 10 10 0 15 0. 0 19 6j 1 1 10 2 5 5 ig-manul 0 2 11 0 4 8 0 6 4 0 8 5 0 9 7 JO 15 9 0 16 7 [1 9 9 facture. 120 [2 0 0, 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 3 6 7 6 6 11" 5 68 16 32 38 54 52 53 29 280 0 13 3 0 15 2 0 15 5 0 15 8 0 16 8 0 17 8 jl 0 3 14 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 1 1 3 7 9 6 55 1 1 3 Car triage ar 0 8 0 0 5 0 0 7 4 0 8 8 0 10 3 0 19 1 2 2 8 id Coaa h Buildi: 'g2 8* 0 2 10 l| 9 6 |l-10 Oj 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 2 9 19 17 16 7 7 71 1 lailoring t. Inginee: 5 7 12 19 16 20 5 180 jinee rrring, Be )ilermaki 0 0 6 0 7 3 0 8 1J 0 11 0 0 11 2 0 17 0 1 9 10 2 10 n ing, an. I Blacks lithing Worki 2 21 17 28 12 10 135 0 3 9 0 4 7 0 7 7 0 9 3 0 12 9 12 5 15 5 2 10 1 0 3 9 0 5 6 0 9 1 0 12 2 0 13 8 0 18 8 115 "l 4 12 3 i 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 7 12 19 0 15 0 0 15 0 16 1 15 0 ,1 5 4] 5 2 15 0 2 14 4, ressmaki ing and 0 6 0 0 3 6 0 4 6 0 5 10 0 5 8 0 9 5 0 11 10 1 0 11 Milliner 180 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 Di 1 39 36 54 64 43 17 157 ry. Agr. icultural 0 7 0 0 8 4 0 9 6 0 12 6 0 14 6 0 16 3 2 12 8 l-implen lent Mai 17 23 20 6 5 2 2 1 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 3 7 9 11 15 10 109 ring. 7 9 11 15 1 2 4 109

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Ages. Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Apprentices. Piecework. Male. Female. Male. Female. Ages. Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. NEDIi f— continut 'Med. ',ed. 16 18 19 20 Over 20 1 2 1 2 26 2 3 7 10 9 10 4 55 Blacksmithing. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. .. 0 12 6 .. 0 12 6 ..150 .. 0 16 0 ..242 Copper and Brass Workings ..050 ..076 .. 0 10 0 .. 0 14 7 .. 0 16 11 ..120 ..176 ..300 £ s. a. 1 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 5 11 17 14 18 S 8 185 Wo< £ s. a. 5 5 0 8 91 11 8 0 10 11 17 15 0 10 81 14 20 0 13 61 18 34 0 18 61 S 35 1 2 101 8 36 1 6 101 185 163 2 15 5 5 11 17 14 18 S 8 185 lollen-mi £ s. a. 0 10 Oj 0 10 0j 0 11 6 0 11 7 0 11 9 0 10 6 1 0 18 l| 1 5 11 ills. £ s. a. 0 15 0 . £ s. a. 0 10 6 0 12 3 0 14 0 0 18 0 0 18 5 [O 19 8 1 1 11 Il 3 8 0 17 0 P 17 Oj &C. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 1 5 Lau: 2 .. I 4 .. I 6 .. I 5 .. I 3 .. I 1 3 15 0: 5 44 1 16 8: mdry-wo 0 5 0 0 9 0 0 9 8 0 11 2 0 16 8 110 i i o! I ,2 4 0, >rks. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Plum 10 9 13 13 7 13 8 75 nbing, Tinsmithing, and Gasfit ..057 .. 0 4 10 ..078 ..091 .. 0 11 0 . .. 0 16 5 ..159 .. 2 0 5 .. 1 13 7 Gasfi rting W, irks. 1 5 11 17 6)0 18 8l 18 j 20 I Calico i-bag Mi iking. II 0 01 .. jl 5 Oj 1 j ■• 1 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 2 2 2 1 3 2 42 Tanning 2 ..076 2 .. 0 11 3 2 .. 0 10 3 1 .. 0 10 0 3 ..100 2 ..150 42 j .. 2 3 10 g and Ci urrying. 1 18 0 1 13 7 Over 201 1 I Sewing-machine Repairs 1 [2 15 010 10 0J nachine (0 10 Oj Repairs 1 l' 1 3 3 3 1 1 30 Brick, Tile, and Drain-pipe V .. 0 10 0 ..088 1 0 5 40 6 0 10 7 80 16 00 17 0 2 1 10 0 0 10 0 .. 0 18 0 .. 1 18 2 .. 2 0 0 id Drair 1 I i-pipe M ]aking. 14 15 16 18 19 20 Over 20 0 6 0 0 16 0 0 10 0 0 17 6 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 1 5 3 3 3 2 2 18 Sadeile ana 1 ..050 5 ..096 3 .. 0 10 0 3 .. 0 13 4 3 .. 0 12 6 2 .. 0 15 6 2 .. 1 11 0 18 .. 1 18 11 Harne: ss Making. 2 0 0 Over 201 9 I Manure-works. .. |117 1| I nure-woi I I rks. I I rks. I I 14 15 16 17 19 Over 20 1 8 1 2 2 35 Freezing-works. ..070 .. 0 14 2 ..140 .. 0 17 7 ..162 2 2 2 9 0 12 0 3zing-wo: 12 5 Ol 0 12 0 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 4 12 14 19 8 19 7 239 Manufacture 4 2 ,'0 5 3 12 9 0 5 9 14 13 0 8 4 19 14 0 11 1 8 4 0 12 8 19 9 0 19 0, 7 12 0 17 1!, 239' 48 2 6 11 of Boot 0 5 0 P 5 2 0 8 0 0 9 8 0 11 0 0 14 8 P 16 6 !0 18 9 is ana £ Shoes. 18 Over 201 1 j 31 I Gasworks. .. II 0 01 .. \2 12 7| 3-asworke I I 15 17 18 19 20 Over 20 1 | "l *22 Sail and Tent Making. 1 0 10 0 0 5 Oj 1 .. 0 10 0 1 .. 0 15 0 .. 0 15 0 13 .. 0 13 2 .. 18 6 .. 2 10 0 I d Tent i 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 15 0 Making, Over 201 2 Wool, Rug, an 2 1 2 11 17 61 ia Mat-ir 0 16 0, 2 1. l] naking *t forks. Chemical 1 ..050 2 10 6 9 4 2 0 8 9 2 .. 0 10 3 3 ,. 0 18 6 1 ..100 2 ..150 22 1 2 11 0 ana Ac] ia Work, 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 16 7 6 5 3 3 3 15 Rope and Twine Works .. 0 9 2 .. 0 10 4 .. 0 11 8 .. 0 12 9 .. 0 14 4 .. 0 14 8 ..120 .. 2 10 10 0 13 2 id Twine 2 10 0 3 Works. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 1 2 4 2 3 1 2 22 0 10 0 0 12 3 i0 12 0 14 15 16 17 Over 20 1 3 8 4 2 Tea Blending ar 1 ..0 7 6! 3 2,0 6 8 1 8 ..088 4 .. 0 12 6 2 .. 2 10 0 ,nd Pack ■! 10 7 6 I I ring Co: ipanies. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 5 1 5 11 5 3 9 23 Flax-milling. .. 0 12 5 ..150 .. 0 18 9 .. 0 17 6 .... 1 15 0 .. 12 4 .. 1 15 0 ..134 ..140 .. 1 13 10 .. 2 2 6 jX-milli: ng. 1 15 0 1 15 0 15 17 20 Over 20 1 4 4 4 Coffee a 1 ..070 4 ..098 4 ..144 4 j .. 2 10 0 1 4 4 4 md Spic, Mills. 2 2 6 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 2 1 3 2 5 3 67 Flc 2 .. '0 11 3 1 ..080 3 .. 0 18 4 2 .. 0 15 0 5 .. |0 18 0 8 ..2 5-0 67 12 6 0 lur-milli i ig14 15 16 18 Over 20 1 1 2 "5 Photographic Studios. .. 0 5 0. .. 0 5 0 10 7 0050 1 ..'0 7 6 9 0 19 3)0 15 7 Studios. 1 2 1 3 2 5 3 67 i 1 10 0 1

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Ages. Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Number employed. Ages. Male. Female. L_ Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male, j Femal Dt Watch and Jewellery Making. £ s. d.£ s. d.£ s. d.£ s. a. 14 1 ..050 16 4 ..063 17 2 ..089 18 3 .. 0 10 0 19 3 .. 0 12 6 20 1 ..100' Over 20 14 1 1 17 61 0 0 DUNEDI] ]— continued. iry Making. £ s. a.£ s. a 14 6 15 6 16 2 17 5 18 5 19 2 20 17 Over 20 41 Fellmongering. £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. a, ..075 I ..082 .. 0 16 0 .. 0 15 7 .. 0 19 5 ..120 .. 1 10 9 .. 1 16 0 .. 2 0 0 10 0 Lapiaary-works. 16 1 .. 0 10 0 17 ' 3 .. 0 10 8 18 1 ..170 19 1 .. 0 15 0 20 1 [ .. 1 16 0 Over20 4 | .. 2 3 0J I . iaary-wc irks. 2 0 0 Mari 17 1 18 1 19 1 20 2 Over 20 26 ine Repairing Yaras (Union S.S. Comp .. JO 12 0 .. 0 10 0 .. 0 14 0 ..180 .. 2 15 5 'aras (U: nion S.' 3. Com; my). Perambulator-making. 14 1 ..050 15 1 ..050 Over20 2 12260 15 0 nulator-r laking. 14 1 15 2 16 1 17 1 18 5 Over 20 9 Wire-works. '.. 0 5 0 ..076 .. 0 10 6 ..090 .. 0 14 0 .. 1 11 0 'ire-wor] :s. 0 15 0 Cement-making. 18 j 1 0 14 0 19 j 2 ..126 20 I 1 .. 0 14 0 Over20 15 ..217 .. 4 10 0 ient-mal: Brush, Broom, and Cork Making. 16 2 ..050 .. |0 10 0] 20 1 3 .. „ 2 0 00 15 8 Over 20 9 1113 .. 12 2 olo 18 0 iking. 18 | 1 | Over 20 j 5 | 1 5 Gutworks. II 8 01 | | .. |l io o| I I I Outworks. 0 15 8 10 18 0 14 1 19 1 Over 20 .. Portmanteau and Bag Making. .. 10 7 6| .. Il 6 0 2 | .. Io 15 0 u and Bag Mai ring. Paper and Stationery Manufacturing. 14 5 206 00 50 ..070 15 6 ..072 16 8 ..088 ..084 17 7 .. 0 10 8 .. 0 11 2 18 7 .. 0 15 0 .. 0 15 0 19 3 ..140 ..115 20 2 .. 1 10 0 ..190 Over20 48 5 2 12 11 1 2 3 0 0 1 1 iO 15 0 ituring. 0 7 0 19 2 20 1 Over 20 11 2 1 11 Joinerv and Sash-door Making. .. 0 "16 3 .. 0 15 0 .. 2 12 1 . Sash-door Mai lor Mai ring. ; and Cleaning. 18 1 20 1 Over 20 1 1 1 1 Dyeing ana Cleaning. .. 0 15 0 I ..100 .. 1 14 0 I saning. Soap and Candle Making. 14 2 ..050 | 15 4 0 11 8 16 2 ' .. 0 8 0 .. 0 12 6 17 6 .. 0 11 1J .. 0 12 6 18 1 .. 0 15 0 Over 20 37 ..230 Aerated-water and Cordial Manufacturing. 15 4 .. 0 10 9 16 1 ..076 17 3 .. 0 18 2 18 1 ..100 19 4 ..176 Over 20 17 ..200 Brewing and Malting. 14 1 ..[0 7 6 16 2 .. JO 10 0 17 1 .. 0 10 0 18 3 .. 0 14 2 19 2 ..150 Over 20 81 [ .. 266 .. 200 Fish-curing. 'acturini 15 5 16 3 17 3 18 5 19 3 20 6 Over 20 25 Over 201 1 | 5 3 3 5 3 6 25 1 Rabbit-preserving. ..140 ..140 ..140 ..147 .. 1 12 0 ..188 .. 1 14 1 Flock-manufacture. I .. :p io oi | [ :-manufacture. II [ , I it-prese: rving. ;l 14 2 16 1 17 Over 20 .. Match-manufacturing. .. jO 3 6 ..040 1 0 8 0 1 .. .. .. 0 10 0 'l I 1 i manufacturing. i ..080 .. 0 10 0 15 1 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 2 Waterproof-clothing Manufacture. 609 00 50 ..070 5 ..070 .. 0 17 0 5 ..070 .. 0 13 6 10 .. 0 13 0 .. 0 17 6 6 0 16 0 3 0 15 0 20 3 10 01 1 0 .. 0 19 6 lothing Manufacture. 0 5 0 ..070 0 7 0 .. 0 17 0 0 7 0 .. 0 13 6 0 13 0 .. 0 17 6 .. 0 16 0 .. 0 15 0 110 .. 0 19 6 15 | 1 .. |0 17 0 16 1 .. 0 17 0 18 j 1 .. Io 17 0 Note.—Owing to illness of late Inspector, all the factories in ing-off in numbers as compared with last year. mncdin were not registe] red by the 31st March. This will account ft larch. This will account fo or appai * rent fall INVERCARGILL (SO THLA ND PROVINCI ]AL DISTRICT). )• Bakeries. 14 1 ..050 16 1 .. 0 12 6 17 3 .. 0 17 4 18 3 .. 0 13 4 20 7 1 1 1 10 10 0 D?er20 11 1 1 16 91 0 0 Buttrr, Cheese, &c, Making. 18 f II .. 11.10 01 | | Over 20 14 ..2 5 2 14 2 15 2 16 2 17 1 19 1 20 1 Over 20 2 Confectionery and Biscuit Makin . ..060 .. 0 10 0 .. 0 12 0 .. 0 10 0 .. 0 15 0 .. 1 15 0 ..200 and Biscuit Makin . ., Maki:

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Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. 1 Number employed. Average Wages per Week: Timework. Average Wages per Week: Piecework. Apprentices. Apple] itices. Ages. Ages. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. 'emale. :ale. Female. Male. I Female. 1 Male. Female. Male. Female, INVE1 iCARG] [LL— co iinuet (SOU' HLANI PROVINCIAL DIST] RIOT). 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 2 1 20 20 11 20 9 59 ressmaki £ s. a. ing and £ s. d. 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 4 5 0 5 5 0 5 10 0 9 6 0 13 3 1 2 10 Milliner £ s. d. £ s. d. 1 13 4 9 2 14 15 17 19 Over 20 Plumbing, Tinsmith £ s. d. 1 ..070 1 ..070 4 .. 0 10 7 1 ..126 5 ..250 ling, ana Gasfitting Works. £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. a. Rope an 8 ..083 2 ..086 2 .. 0 13 0 2 ..189 1 .. 1 15 0 1 .. 1 10 0 14 j .. 1 13 7| id Twine a Twine Works. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 3 4 3 3 2 1 32 1 16 i 6 6 4 1 17 I 0 9 6 0 10 6 0 11 10 0 19 2 10 0 1 5 0 1 16 0 Cailoring 0 6 0 0 5 0 0 7 0 0 14 9 0 17 0 0 18 0 112 14 15 17 18 19 20 Over 20 1 1 0 15* 0 [1 7 91 Fk 2 .. • 0 10 0 10 .. 0 10 0 2 .. 0 10 0 3 .. 0 10 0 1 .. 0 14 0 5 ..108 ix-millir Ig17 18 19 iver 20 C 2 4 6 - 2- : Clothing i Manufs 0 2 6 0 3 4 0 4 0 0 15 0 2 18 0 icturing. 14 16 17 18 20 Over 20 1 1 2 j 2 0 Oi 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Photog: II 10 5 0 1 1 .. 1 .. 1 5 .. ;raphic Studios. 0 7 6 0 8 0 0 8 0 0 15 0 0 11 0 0 14 11 itudios. 14 15 16 17 18 19 iver 20 2 2 6 3 3 2 10 Hosi iery-mal 0 6 0 0 8 6 0 9 3 0 11 2 0 13 0 0 15 0 13 0 king. .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 1 1 i i .. 0 16 0 nd Bookbinding. 1 14 15 16 17 18 19 Over 20 Manufacture 1 ..076 1 .. 0 10 0 1 .. 0 10 0 1 1 0 10 0 1 1 0 12 6 1 .. 0 12 6 25 8 2 8 0 of Boots and £ rs anil Ihoes. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 ] 5 0 12 6 3 6 1 39 Printing •„ Publis] 0 6 8 0 7 5 0 8 8 0 10 6 0 19 2 12 5 1 10 0 2 9 7 ihing, ar 0 12 6 0 12 6 .. I .. I .. I 0 16 7 2 5 0 .. I .. i Saddle anc II ..076 1 .. 0 17 6 3 j ..280 d Harness Maki ing. "l 3 0 10 Ol 0 13 9] 17 18 Over 20 |8 1 8] |1 15 Ol IS 16 17 18 20 Iver 20 2 2 2 2 3 6 Cabir i i .. i .. i **2 : uetmakii 0 8 6 0 11 0 0 15 0 0 17 6 1 10 4 2 11 8 ng ana Upholst, 3ring. 16 18 Over 20 Flour 1 .. 0 15 01 1 .. 1 10 0 5 .. 2 10 0j r-milling, &c. 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 Engine 2 2 1 6 12 iering, I Boilerma 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 15 0 0 17 6 2 14 2 0 13 9| iking, ai nd Blac] rsmithi: ig, &c. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Joinery and' S* 5 ..070 6 ..074 12 .. 0 11 6 7 .. 0 15 0 3 ..108 2 .. 1 4 6 24 .. 12 8 5 ,sh and Door iking. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Ivor 20 1 2 4 6 1 1 16 Car: , rriage an 0 6 0! 0 11 0 0 11 10 0 13 10 a 12 6 0 17 6 2 4 8 id Coac] i Building. 14 15 17 18 19 20 Over 20 Ss 5 .. 0 15 8 4 .. 0 14 4 4 .. 1 1 10 4 ..181 5 ..180 1 .. 1 16 0 142 .. 2 0 1J .wmilli: 'g- # 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Iver 20 Agri, 2 5 6 7 2 4 4 36 jultural--implem 0 7 6 0 7 6 0 8 7 0 9 8 0 12 6 0 15 6 113 2 3 9 lent Ma] ring and Eepai: ring. 15 17 19 20 Over 20. Black 1 ..076 2 ..090 4 .. 0 18 7 3 .. 0 18 4 13 ..257 rsmithi: ;, &c. ,. 18 19 20 Over 20 Aerated-water am 1 .. p 15 0 2 ..150 5 .. 1 12 0 3 .. 1 10 0 1 2 5 3 Cordi; il Manu: 'acturin. 15 16 17 18 19 20 )ver20 1 3 2 2 3 1 54 Meat-fr treezing t 15 0 15 0 17 6 1 10 0 1 10 0 1 10 0 1 12 11 md -pr, serving Works. 17 18 Over 20 Fel 9 .. 0 17 6 2 ..100 10 ..200 Browinj 9 j .. 12 10 71 9 2 10 llmonge: ring. Halting. Over 20 9 and |4 10 Oj

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Total number of persons under Factories Act— 1891-92 .. .. .. 20,456 1892-93 .. .. .. 25,022 1892-93 .. .. ..25,022 1893-94 .. .. .. 25,851 Increase .. .. 4,566 Increase .. .. 829 These totals do not include employes of the Eailway Commissioners. Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, not given; printing (2,350 copies), £50 7s. 6d.

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Males. Females. Males. Females. Fruit and vegetable evaporating Sugar-refining Jams, biscuits, and confectionery manufacturing Pickles, sauce, and vinegar manufacturing Fish-curing .. Ham ana bacon curing Meat preserving ana freezing Rabbit-preserving Coffee ana chicory milling Tea blenaing ana packing Butter ana cheese manufacturing Baking Flour-milling Aerated-water ana cordial manufacturing Brewing ana malting Wine ana spirit manufacturing Chaff-cutting Grain ana seea cleaning Flax-milling Rope ana twine making Sail ana tent making Calico-bag making Umbrella-making Oilskin-clothing manufacturing Shirt-making Hosiery-knitting Tailoring Clothing-manufacturing Waterproof-clothing manufacturing .. Hat ana cap manufacturing Dressmaking Woollen-milling Flock-milling Wool-aumping Boot ana shoe manufacturing Saddle and harness making Whip-thong making Bag and portmanteau making Perambulator and wiokerware making Tanning and currying Wool, rug, and mat making Carpet-weaving Dyeing and cleaning Chemicals ana arugs manufacturing .. Manufacturing arugs ana herbal remeaies Gas-manufacturing Patent-fuel manufacturing 3 119 325 5 3 12 1,084 50 21 113 108 432 296 174 408 19 39 34 544 156 62 6 6 10 6 'ii4 10 "l4 2 2 18 1 1 35 2 1 9 181 185 983 1,412 109 23 2,434 537 Match-manufacturing Venetian-blind making Wood-turning Box-making Chair-making Cabinetmaking, upholstering, &c. Coopering Joinery and sash-door making Boatbuiiaing Sawmilling.. Carriage ana coach buiiaing Blacksmithing Agricultural-implement making Engineering, boilermaking, ana blacksmithing Plumbing, tinsmithing, and gasfitting Cycle-making Sewing-machine repairing Gunsmithing Electrical-engineering Galvanised-iron works Wire-working ana nail-making Copper ana brass works Tinware ana japan works Jewellery and watchmaking Lapidary-works .. . I Monumental-masonry Lime-burning Cement-making Pottery-works Brick-works Printing Paper and stationery making Paper-bag and -box making Photographic stuaios Piano repairing ana making .. ». Brush-making Laundries Soap and candle making and bone-dust works Manure-works Fellmongering Sausage-casings and gutworks Gum-packing Cigarette and cigar making Dentistry Marine repairing-yards (Union S.S. Co.) 3 24 45 8 18 567 205 199 14 1,747 710 232 487 1,084 534 84 6 5 10 31 27 100 9 103 11 23 2 19 50 199 1,943 86 2 7 "35 1 1 3 803 386 14 13 4 236 7 11 67 522 2 25 1,748 388 4 12 54 422 2 5 17 84 6 207 5 *638 14 55 22 44 19 227 15 128 10 3 7 2 2 13 507 56 136 32 4 42 **61 4 12 12 Totals 18,490 7,361