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1914. NEW ZEALAND.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR (REPORT OF THE).

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

CON TENTS.

REPORTS. Page Secretary, Chief Inspector of Factories, and Registrar of Industrial Unions .. .. .. 3-29 Conciliation Commissioners .. .. • • • • • • • • • • .. 41-43 REPORTS (EXTRACTS OP). Local Officers in Charge, Inspectors of Factories, &c. .. .. .. .. .. 30-37 Inspectors of Scaffolding .. .. • • • • • • • • • • .. 38-39 Officers in Charge Women's Employment Bureaux .. .. .. .. .. .. 40 SUBJECTS. Accidents in Factories (see also chart at end) .. .. .. .. .. .. 9 on Buildings and Scaffolding .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 28 Accommodation for Shearers, Flax-mill and Sawmill Workers, and Farm Labourers .. .. 24, 25, 83-85 Amendments suggested to various Acts (see Suggested Amendments.) Arbitration Court, Business dealt with and Expenditure of .. .. .. .. 18, 21, 44, 45 „ Decisions of Interest .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 15 Associations and Unions registered .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 17 Awards and Industrial Agreements, Number of .. .. .. .. .. .. 18, 19 , made and refused (with reasons for refusal) .. .. .. 44, 45 , in Force as at 31st March, 1914, in the Four Chief Industrial Districts, Rates of Wages and Hours of Labour fixed by .. .. .. 61-78 Barmaids registered .. .. • • • • • • • • • ■ • • 26 Boys and Girls in Factories, Decrease in Number of (see also p. 34, Wanganui Report, paragraph 3) .. 9 Boys for Farms .. .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 27 Boys leaving School, Occupations of .. .. .. . • .. .. .. 5 Casual Labour Problem, Town and Country .. .. .. .. .. 3-5 Causes of Unemployment .. .. .• •■ •• •• •■ •• 5 Certificates of Fitness issued to Boys and Girls to work in Factories .. .. .. 9, 80 Conciliation Councils, Business dealt with by and Expenditure of .. .. .. 18, 20-21, 41-43 Deoisions of Arbitration Court of Special Interest .. .. .. .. .. .. 15 Employment and Trade, Conditions of .. .. .. .. .. .. 8 Employment Bureaux (Men's) — Number of Persons assisted during Year .. .. .. .. .. .. 6 (a.) In Occupations .. .. . • ■ • • ■ • ■ ■ ■ •. 82 (b.) In Districts .. .. .. • • • • • • • ■ .. 83 Employment Bureaux (Women's) .. .. .. •■ •• •• .. 40 Number of Persons assisted .. .. • • • ■ • • • • .. 28, 83 Employment on Farms .. .. •• ■• •• •• •• •• 5 Enforcements of Awards, Industrial Agreements, &o. .. .. .. .. .. 18, 20 Exhibit of Depanment at Auckland Exhibition .. .. .. .. .. .. 29 Expenditure of Department during the Year .. .. .. .. .. .. 86 Factories Act Factories, Total Number of, in New Zealand, 1894-1914 .. .. .. .. .. 7 Increases, &c.fin .. .. .. •• •• •• •• •• 7 1913-14, in Towns, Districts, and Trades • • .. .. .. .. .. 46-59 •* ~ and Districts .. .. .. .. .. .. 80, 81 Summary in Trades .. .. .. • • • ■ • • .. 59 Number of .. .. .. . • • • • • .. 80, 81 (in four chief cities of New Zealand) .. .. .. 8, 80 Factories, Total Number of Persons engaged in, during Year, in Trades and SexesAuckland City and Suburbs .. .. •• •• •• •• •• 46 Wellington ' •• •• •• •• •• •• ..47 Christchurch „ • • • • • • • • • • • • .. 48 Dunedin „ •• •• •• •• •• •• ..50 Northern Industrial District .. .. • • • • • • • • • • 51 Taranaki „ • ■ • • ■ • • • • • ■ .. 52 Wellington „ • • • • ■ • • • • • • • • • 53 Marlborough . ■ • • • • • • • • • • • . • 54 Nelson » •• •• •• •• •■ •• ..54 Westland » •• •• •• •• •• •• ..55 Canterbury » • • • • • • • • • • • • .. 56 Otago District .. .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 56 Southland District .. • • • • • • • • ■ ■ • ■ • • 57 Summary (in Trades) .. .. • • • • • • • • • • ■ • 59 Factory Workers, Total Number of, in New Zealand, 1894-1914 .. .. .. .. 7 Increases, &c, of (see also chart at end .. .. .. .. .. 7 1913-14, in Towns, Districts, and Trades .. .. .. .. .. 46-59 , Summary in Trades .. .. • • • • • • •. 59

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Page Fares of Persons assisted to Employment, Expenditure and Refunds of .. .. .. .. 6 Farms, Employment on .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 5 Flax-mill Workers' Accommodation .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 24, 85 Hotel Workers : Weekly Whole Holiday .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 10, 11 Hours of Labour fixed by the various Awards and Industrial Agreements in Force on 31st March, 1914, in the Four Chief Industrial Districts .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 61-78 Industrial Agreements, Number of .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 18, 44 Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act .. .. .. .. .. .. 11-21 , , Amendment Aot, 1913 .. .. .. .. .. 16 Bill, 1918 (No. 2) .. .. .. .. .. 17 Industrial Unions and Associations registered .. .. .. .. . ■ .. 17 Insurance, Unemployment .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 4 Labour Disputes Investigation Act, 1913 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..16,17 Labour Problem, Casual, Town and Country .. .. .. .. .. .. 3-5 Labour Bureaux (New Zealand), Extension of .. .. .. .. .. .. 6 Labour Bureaux (Bee Employment Bureaux). Labour Legislation (Recent) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. -10, 16, 17, 23 Lockout, Alleged (sheepowner) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 14, 33 Membership of Industrial Unions .. .. .. .. .. .. ..17,18 , „ shown in Trade Groups .. .. .. .. .. 18 Occupations of Boys leaving School .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 5 Overtime (in Factories) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 8, 79 Penalties for Breaches of Awards, &c, collected and outstanding .. .. .. .. 20 Persons assisted by New Zealand Labour Bureaux .. .. .. .. .. 6, 82, 83 Persons engaged in various Industries in Factories (see also chart at end) .. .. .. .. 46-59 Prices of Commodities Statistics .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 28 Prosecutions for Offences under various Aots — Factories .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 8 Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration .. .. .. .. .. .. 19, 20 Scaffolding Inspection .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 23 Servants' Registry-offices .. .. .. .. .. . ■ .. .. 26 Shearers'and Agricultural Labourers' Accommodation .. .. .. .. .. 25 Shops and Offices .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 Publications, Departmental .. .. .. .. ■. .. .. .. 28 Kates of Wages and Hours of Labour fixed by the various Awards and Industrial Agreements in Force on 31st March, 1914, in the Four Chief Industrial Distriots .. .. .. .. .. 61-78 Registration of Industrial Unions and Associations of Unions (see also Decisions of Arbitration Court, p. 15) 17 Saturday Half-holiday in Shops .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 10, 30 Sawmill Workers' Accommodation .. .. .. .. .. .. ..24,85 Scaffolding Inspection Act .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 23,38,39 Scale of Fees under Servants' Registry Offices Act .. .. .. .. .. ..25,26 Secret Ballot on Proposal to strike or lockout .. .. .. .. .. .. 17 " Sedgwick" Boys, Earnings and Expenses of .. .. .. .. .. .. 27 Servants' Registry offices, Number of, in Principal Towns of New Zealand.. .. .. .. 25 Shearers' Accommodation .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 24, 83 Shearers' and Agricultural Labourers' Accommodation Act .. .. .. .. 24, 83-85 Shops and Offices Act .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 „ Amendment Act, 1913 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 Shops, Number of, registered in various Towns in New Zealand .. .. .. .. .. 80, 81 Staff Changes .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 29 Strike of Shipwrights, Waterside Workers, and Others, Report on .. .. .. .. 11-14 Strikes (other workers) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 14 Suggested Amendments to various ActsFactories .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 9 Scaffolding Inspection .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 24, 39 Servants' Registry-offices, (see also Palmerston North and Masterton reports, p. 85) .. .. 26 Shops and Offices (see also Palmerston North report, p. 34).. .. .. .. .. 11 Wages Protection and Contractor's Liens .. .. .. .. .. .. 25 Trade and Employment, Conditions of .. .. .. .. .. .. 3 Unemployment and Unemployment Insurance .. .. .. " .. .. .. 4, 5 Unemployment, Causes of .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 5 Unions and Associations registered (see also Decisions of Arbitration Court, p. 15) .. .. .. 17 Wages Protection and Contractors' Liens Act .. .. .. .. .. .. 25 Wages fixed by various Awards and Industrial Agreements in Foroe on 31st March, 1914, in the Four Chief Industrial Districts .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 61-78 Wages paid to Persons engaged in certain Groups of Industries, 1912-13 .. .. .. .. 96 Wages, Arrears of, recovered for Workers .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 21 Waterside Workers (casual labour problem) .. .. .. .. .. ..3,4 , Strike, Report on .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 11-14 Weekly Whole Holiday for Hotel Workers .. .. .. .. .. .. 10, 11 Women's Employment Branches (see Employment Bureaux). Workers' Compensation Aot, Cases under .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 22 Amendment Act, 1913 .. .. .. .. .. .. 23 Workers' Dwellings Act .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 26 . in Country Districts .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 5 CHARTS AND DIAGRAMS SHOWING Wages and Hours of various Building Trades in Wellington, N.Z., compared with certain Large Cities in Great Britain .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Facing p. 86 Proportion of Main Items to Average Total Weekly Expenditure, based on Expenditure of Sixty-nine Workers' Families in New Zealand .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 87 Food-prices by Index Numbers, New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and Germany, 1900-1912 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 88 Number of Factories registered in New Zealand .. .. .. .. .. .. 89 Average Duration of Employment in Weeks .. .. .. .. .. .. go Number of Employees (all ages) at work in each Month (April, 1910, to March, 1911) .. .. .. 91 Average Rents of 4-, 5-, and 6-roomed Houses in the Four Chief Centres of New Zealand .. .. 92 (1.) Persons employed in the Principal Industries, 1895-1914 .. .. .. ~ At end. (2.) Total Wages Paid in Important Industries, 1912-13 .. .. .. .. ... (3.) Annual Increase of Workers (male and female) in Factories, 1896-1914 .. .. (4.) Accidents in factories, 1903-1914 .. .. .. .. .. ... APPENDICES. Return showing Number of Members in each Industrial Union registered to 31st December, 1913 .. H.-Ha. Report on the Operation of the Workers' Dwellings Aot for the Year ending 31st March, 1914 .. H.-118,

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Ihe SeorEtaky, Department of Labour, to the Right Hon. the Minister of Labour. Sir, — Department of Labour, Wellington, 24th June, 1914. I have the honour to present herewith the twenty-third annual report of this Department, for the information of His Excellency the Governor and to be laid before Parliament in compliance with the Labour Department and Labour Day Act, 1908, and the Factories Act, 1908. The report covers the late financial year —viz., from Ist April, 1913, to the 31st March, 1914. I have, &c, F. W. Rowley, The Right Hon. the Minister of Labour. Secretary of Labour.

Conditions of Trade and Employment. The year just closed has been an abnormal one from an industrial standpoint. Two main factors upset the equilibrium of trade and employment—the unsettled weather during spring and summer, and the strike of large bodies of men. mostly transport workers and miners, during the months from October. 1913, to January, 1914. 'The strike held up the shipping in the main ports for a time, and to a considerable extent adversely affected workers in practically all trades and callings in the larger towns, whilst the unseasonably wit weather experienced greatly retarded agricultural and pastoral work. (The strike is more extensively referred to later in this report, page 11.) The autumn and winter of 1913 proved to be .normal in regard to for the workers. Beyond the usual difficulty with unskilled casual labour and a slackness in the leather and engineering trades, the winter passed off fairly well. The leather trades (especially tanning and boot-manufacturing) have been slack; the latter trade has had an unusually bad year, and some of the representative men in the trade allege that it was one of the worst periods experienced for many years past. Towards the latter end of the year, however, it is pleasing to say that employment in the boot trade was more plentiful, and the outlook for 1914 is certainly brighter. Artisans, in the building trade especially, lost very little time other than was due to weatherconditions and the strike, and, generally speaking, it may be said that this trade experienced a fair year of employment. Employment in the clothing trades was only fair. These trades have generally given steady employment to their hands for some years past, and in the factories it has been a general complaint that sufficient workers, especially girls, could not l>e secured. Manufacturers and others have this year asserted that, as a direct result of the strike, in October, 1913 - January, 1914, trade fell off considerably; short time was worked in most establishments during the period mentioned, and the Christmas season trade was not as buoyant as usual. Despite the drawbacks indicated, a splendid recovery was made in most industries during the late summer and autumn. The primary industries —agriculture, dairying, and meat-freezing —have experienced an exceptionally busy season. There was the usual insistent demand for farm workers from October up to the end of March. Owing to an increased number of suitable hands arriving from overseas the Department was enabled to deal fairly promptly with applications from employers, and a large number of engagements satisfactory to both parties was made. In view of the great importance of farming to the trade of the Dominion it is a somewhat unsatisfactory feature of the demand for farm labour that the employment is not of a more regular nature. Very great advantage would result to all parties if more continuous employment could be ensured. This question is touched upon on page .">, and also in the separate report under the Workers' Dwellings Act, which will be attached to this report as Appendix B. Casual Labour Problem. Following the settlement of the strike on the waterfront, a good deal of public attention has been centred upon the problem of how to deal best with the large surplusage of labour continually offering at the wharves. It is hoped that as a result of a conference of delegates of the various Harbour Boards in January last, convened and presided over by yourself, some means may be found by which the employment of watersiders—at all events those employed by

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Harbour Boards—will be placed upon a more satisfactory footing to all concerned; no doubt, too, some of the shipping companies, in conjunction with representatives of the waterside workers, will move in a similar direction as regards the stevedores and others employed by them. The London and Liverpool Dock schemes recently begun for the purpose of establishing more regularity of waterside employment there, and also the institution of the labour exchanges in Great Britain generally, are being watched in order that advantage may be taken of the experience thus gained. The subject of casual employment, not only on the wharves but in all occupations of an intermittent nature, is one that may rightly engage the attention of such a Department as this, and it is hoped that the Department may be enabled before long to render some assistance in the matter. Every occupation which is of an intermittent character obviously causes great loss to the worker, employer, and the general public, inasmuch as the worker receives, on the average, small earnings throughout the year, although at a comparatively high rate per hour or day; while if continuity of employment (not necessarily of one kind) were established, the result would be greater earnings for the worker at a more nearly normal rate, and consequently lower cost to the employer and general public. It will be well therefore to consider whether by means of the Department's bureaux something cannot be done to enable those workers whose employment is intermittent to secure other employment during their present periods of idleness. Unemployment and Unemployment Insurance. In this connection it may not be out of place to state that the advisability of introducing a system of unemployment insurance has been considered to some extent by the Department, and the opinion formed is that such a scheme would not lie practicable in a young country like New Zealand. The following are briefly the reasons for the conclusion arrived at : — New Zealand is not yet a sufficiently settled country to make the introduction of unemployment insurance practicable. In a country like Germany or England the population is large and fairly stable; it is not likely to be increased to any extent by immigration; trade has already been firmly established and the fluctuations of industry that take place are mainly the inevitable fluctuations that are likely to happen periodically. Then there is the fact that in these old countries work is highly specialized, and there is generally therefore a definite line drawn between the different trades. Under the above circumstances it is no doubt possible to make actuarial calculations as to the extent to which unemployment is likely to exist in the immediately future years. In New Zealand, on the other hand, exactly the opposite is the case. There is as 3-et a small and scattered population liable to huge influxes of workers in different trades; there is a lot of new country to open up; new industries to establish; further developments of industries already established to take place as they increase in volume, and so on. Again, work in New Zealand is not highly specialized; a good deal of overlapping takes place amongst the workers, so that an unemployed worker in one trade can, if he is energetic enough, generally " hustle round " and get something else to do. Under such circumstances how would it be possible to make any reliable calculation as to the extent of unemployment likely to take place? Take, for example, the building trade in New Zealand : ascertain the approximate number of vforkers engaged, make calculations as to what has l>een the average duration of their employment, and insure them accordingly; in the first year of insurance the building trade might suddenly become slack from various causes. It must be remembered, too. that any unemployment-insurance scheme would attract the bad risks —the good men would have to help to pay for the less competent workers —and it would tend to encourage idleness and fraud. Even in those countries of Europe where unemployment insurance is established stress is laid upon the great difficulty of eliminating those causes of unemployment which are not due to bona fi-le ttade fluctuations, which for the reasons above mentioned would make the introduction of insurance in New Zealand most difficult. Then, the "unemployed" difficulty relate* mostly to casual labour, while the systems adopted in Europe benefit chiefly the organized workers in skilled trades. It is considered that, instead of attempting to provide for insurance against unemployment, the attention and money which it might be proposed to allocate to such a scheme would be better devoted to an endeavour to minimize unemployment; and in this conclusion support is to be found in some of the reports upon the unemployment-insurance schemes in Europe. For example, at Strasburg it is stated that the main object of the insurance scheme was more to provide means for preventing unemployment than to pay workers during idleness. In one of the German statistical reports upon the subject it is stated that the struggle against unemployment must be waged not by insurance but by preventive measures; and steps in this direction

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seem to be suggested by one provision in the British Act, reducing in certain cases the contributions of the employers who give their workers regular employment; this provision is to the effect that instead of the employer and worker each contributing 2Jd. per week (or 10s. lOd. each per year) the employer may pay the sum of 15s. at the beginning of the year, deducting the worker's contribution of per week from his wages, with the net result, if he continues to employ the worker throughout the year, that the employer's contribution is only 4s. 2d. The chief causes of unemployment may, I think, be brieflj clai itied thus:— (1.) That sufficient steps are not taken to see that hoys, and perhaps also girls, upon leaving the primary schools are put in the way of becoming competent at some definite occupations. They are allowed to drift wherever they or their parents please, and, as they can earn better money at unskilled work, there is great inducement to their parents, especially those who are poor, to put them to such work in preference to having them taught useful trades. In his explanation of the Bill introduced in England Mr. Lloyd George stated that one of the causes of suffering due to unemployment is that legions of boys receive no other training than that of messenger or porter, that as the boys grow up they are replaced by younger boys at the com-mencing-wage, and they are therefore faced with destitution and deterioration. We frequently find in New Zealand that boys of sixteen or seventeen years of age arc able to earn almost the same wages as adults at such places as brickworks, flax-mills, &c., while if apprenticed to skilled trades they would frequently receive only a sum of ."is. or Bs. per week to start. It might be mentioned here that in Strasburg, if the parents cannot afford to apprentice their children, the wages are subsidized from the insurance fund in order to enable them to do so. (2.) That in intermittent trades those workers who are perhaps competent enough always lose a certain amount of time owing to the ordinary fluctuations of their employment, such as farm hands, builders, and slaughtermen. (3.) Then there are those workers who have found that the occupations they have chosen are unsuitable for them, or who through various causes over which they have no control find that they are unable to continue at their trades: this may he caused by lack of proper training, or by the introduction of new machinery or appliances, or through accident or sickness. Regarding the first of these causes, a good deal is done in Germany ami Switzerland in the direction of training boys and girls in suitable occupations. Reports upon the systems in vogue there have been perused, and advantage might be taken of the experience gained in these countries. Occupations of Boys upon leaving School. Steps might therefore be first taken to get into touch with the boys in the principal centres upon their leaving the primary schools, in order to ascertain whether they are taking up such occupations as are likely to afford them suitable and regular employment; and where it is found that such is not the case the Department should be able, by means of its knowledge of the requirements of employers and of trade generally, to guide many of the boys into the right avenues of employment.* In this connection it might be pointed out that it is the boys that are likely to drift into unskilled occupations to whom particular attention should be given. In support of the systems in vogue in Germany and Switzerland it may be stated that in England quite a number of employers in a large yjay of business make it compulsory for their boy and girl employees to attend continuation classes, and some of the employers even establish their own schools for the purpose. Other Remedies. Regarding those workers who find themselves inefficient at their work, it is interesting to note that in the British Act provision is made by which an insurance officer may, if he is satisfied that the failure of a worker to obtain or retain employment at his calling is due to lack of skill or knowledge, authorize his free attendance at technical instruction provided by the State. Without some such assistance these workers would drift into the ranks of unskilled labour. It has already been decided by the Government to assist farm workers in the country districts to supplement their present intermittent employment upon farms by providing them with workers' dwellings upon allotments of sor 10 acres of land suitable for close cultivation. There is no doubt that an extension of this system where possible, even to smaller allotments in the suburbs of the principal towns, would be most useful in reducing the evils of casual employment, and would also add somewhat to the primary productions of the country. In q.uite a number of cases applicants for workers' dwellings in the towns express a desire for sections of about an acre in order that they may grow their own vegetables, keep poultry, and the like.

* Tt is estimated that in the four chief centres the number of boys leaving the schools is about five thousand per annum.

Such desires are deserving of encouragement, as the products of even an acre of land would often save a worker from the hardships of unemployment.* In any event, however, greater use could, with benefit to both employers and workers, be made of the existing bureaux which are carried on by the Department (without charge to either party), in its fifteen principal and 170 sub-agencies throughout New Zealand. The impression still obtains that the bureaux exist merely for the employment of unskilled labourers and artisans, such as carpenters, bricklayers, Arc. There is no ground for this impression, as practical assistance is frequently rendered to the unemployed clerk and to men trained in highly skilled trades. Frequently these latter workers find themselves in a much more serious and critical condition than labourers. Persons assisted by the Men's Bureaus : Statistical. Since the establishment of the Department in LB9l the following have received practical assistance :—

The above figures show that over a hundred thousand men have been direotly assisted (of whom many were assisted several times in a year); this represents an average of nearly five thousand per annum. These persons, together with their dependents, number considerably over a quarter of a million. The total number of men assisted during the past year shows a decrease of 2(Ki over 1912-13.t (For further particulars of the persona assisted by the Department's bureaux, shown in tiades, &p., see page 82.) The following is a statement as to expenditure and refunds for fares of persons assisted to employment during the last five years : —

It will be seen that of the total amount repayable by the workers the very high percentage of 96 per cent, was refunded.

* For further remarks on workers' dwellings see p. 26. t For number assisted by Women's Bureaux see pp. 28 and 40. j These amounts represent not the particular fares issued to workers during the year, but the fares for which accounts were rendered and paid by the Department during that period. § Rebate of 25 per cent, formerly allowed by Railway Department, paid by this Department as from the Ist July 1912. J

Yoar. Total. M irried. Single. Dependants. Private Work. Government Work. 1891-92 1892-93 T893-94 1894-95 1895-96 1896-97 1897-98 1898-99 1899-1900 ... 1900-1 1901-2 1902-3 1903-4 1904-5 1905-6 1906-7 1907-8 1908-9 1909-10 1910-11 1911-12 1912-13 1913-14 Totals ... 2,593 ... 3,874 ... 3,341 ... 3,030 ... 2,871 ... 1,718 ... 2,035 ... 2,115 ... 2,147 ... 3,124 ... 1,830 ... 3,704 ... 2,860 ... 3,130 ... 6,712 7,393 ... 6,305 ... 10,391 ... 8,506 7,102 ... 5,735 ... 5,848 5,645 ... 102,009 1,054 1,808 1,836 2,007 1,880 1,084 1,163 1,178 1,115 1,326 713 1,492 777 953 2,027 1,427 1,440 2,538 2,987 2,181 1,407 1,639 1,497 1,539 2,066 1,505 1,023 991 634 872 937 1,032 1,798 1,117 2,212 2,083 2,177 4,685 5,966 4,865 7,853 5,519 4,921 4,328 4,209 4,148 4,729 7,802 7,942 8,883 8,424 4,719 4,928 4,759 4,471 5,432 2,747 5,934 3,085 3,425 7,351 4,187 4,408 7,510 10,164 8,454 4,233 5,122 4,295 1,730 2,518 1,019 894 708 652 544 638 486 519 396 580 1,216 1,960 1,929 2,718 2,977 4,190 5,059 4,251 3,450 3,705 3,505 863 1,356 2,322 2,136 2,163 1,066 1,491 1,477 1,661 2,605 1,434 3,124 1,644 1,170 4,783 4,675 3,328 6,201 3,447 2,851 2,285 2,143 2,140 35,529 66,480 133,004 45,644 56,365

Year. Expenditure for Fares.J Amount repayable by Workers. J Amount repaid. 1909-10 1910-11 1911-12 1912-13 1913-14 £ 2,492 2,496 2,060 2,267 1,991 £ 2,492 2,496 2,060 1,921§ 1,515§ £ 2,151 2,316 1,992 1,842 1,779 Totals .. 11,306 10,484 10,080 = 96 per cent.

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FACTORIES ACT. Statistical. The totals quoted below show that the number of factories registered continues to grow, there being an increase of ninety-four factories on the previous year, and in thirteen years the number has doubled. The total number of factory workers is also given (showing a small increase over the last year). The latter figures should, however, be regarded as only approximate. It is explained that the figures published from year to year mainly comprise, in column 2, the factoi'ies in existence at registration-time (April). Similarly, in column 4, the factory workers mentioned are mainly those employed at that time. To these have been added the few new factories which opened up during the succeeding eleven months, together with the workers employed therein, but no allowance has been made for any factories (or the workers employed therein) that may have been closed down during the same period. Although the figures are shown as being for each year April-March, it may be said therefore that they substantially relate to the first month of the year only —viz., April.

Tables showing further particulars of the factories and of the workers employed therein during the year 1913-14, divided into districts and trades, arc given on page 46. It should perhaps be further pointed out, first, that the total numbers of persons shown as engaged in the several trades do not indicate the actual number which the trades are capable of employing, as many trades may be unusually slack or busy during the month of April; and, second, that the total wages shown for each trade represents the wages paid to the persons employed throughout the year in question, not merely to those engaged in April. Several trades show substantial increases in the number of persons employed as compared with the previous returns. In the meat-slaughtering and allied trades 4,345 hands were employed, as against 3,934—an increase of 411. Other increases are — 1013. 1914. Increase. Fruit-preserving .. .. .. 351 520 169 Cycle and motor engineering .. .. .. 1,488 1,646 158 Flax-milling .. .. .. .. .. 1,792 2.011 219 Printing, &c. .. .. .. .. .. 4,136 4,287 151 Other trades have remained almost stationary or show a slight falling-off. This is largely accountable to the fact that suitable hands could not be obtained. These are — 1913. 1914. Increase. Ready-made clothing, shirtmaking, and tailoring .. 9.204 9,287 83 Decrease. Dressmaking .. .. .. .. ..6,648 6,517 131 Cabinetmaking .. .. .. .. ..2,746 2,744 2 Woollen-milling.. .. .. .. .. 1,843 1,812 31

Year. (1) Fabtories. (2.) Increase. (3.) Factory Workers. 14) Increase. (5.) April to March. 1894-95 1895-96 1896-97 1897-98 1898-99 ,1899-1900 ... 1900-1 1901-2 1902-3 1903-4 1904-5 1905-6 1906-7 1907-8 1908-9 1909-10 4,109 4,647 5,177 5,601 6,286 6,438 6,744 7,203 7,675 8,373 9,123 9,881 10,788 11,586 12,040 538 530 424 685 152 306 459 472 698 750 758 907 798 454 29,879 32,387 36,918 39,672 45,305 48,938 53,460 55,395 59,047 63,968 67,713 70,403 75,310 78,625 78,848 2,508 4,531 2,754 5,633 3,633 4,522 1,935 3,652 4,921 3,745 2,690 4,907 - 3,315 223 1910-11 12,302 12,768 12,847 13,375 13,469 262 466 79 428 94 77,806 78,790 ■IDecrease. 1,042 Increase. 984 # 1911-12 1912-13 1913-14 86,598 87,517 7,808 919 * Not a« Pertained.

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At certain periods there has been an acute shortage of skilled labour in the clothing trades (especially dressmaking), and there appears to be an insistent demand in almost all establishments for juvenile labour. The following table shows the number of factories in the four chief cities of the Dominion. classified according to the number of hands engaged at date of annual registration —viz., April, 1913 :—

For more reliable statistics of persons employed in factories and the wages paid to them reference should be made to the last two years' reports —1912 (appendix) and 1913, page 92 —where, owing to the unsatisfactory nature of the annual statistics above referred to and as hitherto published, more comprehensive tables are published covering the persons employed in the various trades, their duration of employment, and the wages paid to them throughout the whole year. This was done concurrently with the 1911 census, and it is proposed to continue the series with the 1916 census. Prosecutions. It is satisfactory to report that, as compared with the previous year, there has been a reduction in the number of prosecutions which it was found necessary to take under this Act during the year under review, and that the offences were mostly of a minor nature. Sixty-four cases were taken before the Courts, as against ninety-six taken during 1913. Convictions were obtained in sixty-three, and one case was dismissed. The following is a summary of the various offences : — Failing to keep wages and overtime book ... ... ... ... 16 Failing to pay wages at not longer than fortnightly intervals ... ... 11 Employing persons under sixteen years of age in factories without certificates of fitness ... ... ... ... ... ... 8 Failing to register factories ... ... ... ... ... 8 Failing to report accidents within forty-eight hours of occurrence ... 7 Emphrying females and boys overtime without permits . . ... ... 3 Failing to grant statutory whole and half holiday to females and boys ... 4 Miscellaneous offences ... ... ... ... ... ... 7 Total ... ... ... ... ... ... 64 The dismissed case was taken against an occupier for making a wilfully false entry, in his application for renewal of registration, regarding the number of employees. The Court held that it was not proved to its satisfaction that the entry was wilfully false. Overtime. The total number of hours of overtime worked by women and by boys under sixteen years of asje was 274,888, a decrease of 84,898 hours compared with the returns of 1912-13. The dressmaking, tailoring, clothing, printing, biscuit, confectionery, and jam-making trades and laundering, in point of extra hours worked, have continued to be the busiest, although tailoring, clothing, and dressmaking all show a considerable reduction in the number of hours of overtime worked as compared with last year. The details in trades are given on page 79 of the report. No records were obtained by the Department in respect to the time lost, through slackness or intermittency of work, by employees during ordinary working-hours, and the figures quoted above do not necessarily indicate that full ordinary time has been worked in all cases. In fact, in some of the trades which worked overtime —viz., tailoring and clothing—a good deal of slackness was experienced during a portion of the year owing to the strikes, and consequently workers did not average full time over the whole year; the overtime worked in those trades may be taken as some compensation for the ordinary time lost. (The tables for the year 1910-11, published in last year's report, page 94, give some information as to the duration of employment in the respective trades during that year. As already stated, it is proposed to collect and publish similar tables for the year 1915-16 concurrently with the taking of the next census.)

Factories employing Town. 3 30 Hands 31 to and under. 50. 30 Handi 61 to 101 to 151 to 201 to 301 to 401 to Over i Total 100. 150. 200. 300. 400. 500. 500. Factories. a, ind undei luckland Wellington !hristchurch . . )unedin 1,514 1,070 1,222 1,069 49 11) 32 23 44 14 21 21 100 !) 2 3 3 ] 1 5 5 1 10 3 3 27 11 8 - 1 1 2 1 2 2 1,622 1,110 1,290 1,131 Totals 4,875 123 4 1 I 4 5,153

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Certificates of Fitness issied to Boys and Girls to work in Factories. The number of certificates issued to boys and girls of under sixteen years of age to wurk in factories continues to decrease from year to year, especially in regard to boys. This information is interesting in that it shows that, notwithstanding the demand, the supply of boys and girls for factories is still on the decrease. Certificates were issued during the year to !».'!7 boys and 1,251 girls. A return giving details in towns, and showing standards of education passed, is given in this report, page Ml.

Accidents in Factories.

Although the number of all accidents reported during the year per thousand workers (1261) is higher this year than previously reported, the proportions of serious and fatal accidents are not so large. Probably the higher total is due to the stricter adherence by factory-occupiers to the requirements of the Ad (that all accidents shall be reported), and to the closer supervision exercised by Inspectors; many of the minor accidents might otherwise have escaped notice. The figures show that about !)."> per cent, of recorded accidents were not so serious as to affect a worker's earning-power. Of the eight fatal accidents the circumstances were as follow : An engineer, whilst preparing road-metal with the aid of heated tar, was killed by the explosion of the accumulated gas in one of the tanks; while electing machinery a foreman boilermaker was instantly killed by the falling of a fly-wheel; a freezing-works labourer contracted a severe rupture whilst lifting a heavy bag of fat, and died as a result of same; a dairy factory employee became entangled in a revolving shaft and was killed instantly; an engineer at cement-works, while fixing an iron support to a chute, slipped and fell on his head ; an engine-driver in a flax-mill was caught in a running belt ; a carpenter helping with pile-driving was killed by the falling of the "monkey.'' the chain of which broke; a sawmill hand engaged in working a steam hauler was killed by a Diece of flying timber which he had been using as a lever. In the case of each accident careful inquiries are made by the Department's Inspectors in order to ascertain whether due care has been exercised by the persons responsible, and where it is found that precautionary measures against future accidents are practicable steps are taken accordingly. As already mentioned under " Prosecutions," seven prosecutions were instituted for failure to report accidents within forty-eight hours. The table hereunder shows the accidents in each industrial district:— Northern Industrial District ... ... ... ... 378 Taranaki Industrial District ... ... ... ... 15 Wellington Industrial District ... ... .. ... ... 243 Nelson Industrial District ... ... ... ... ... ... 6 Westland Industrial District ... ... ... ... 16 Canterbury Industrial District ... . . ... ... ... 258 Otago and Southland Industrial District ... ... ... - ... 188 A chart illustrating the accidents in factories during the years 1903 to 1914 inclusive is included at the end of the report. Suooested Amendments. From amongst a number of suggestions for amendment of the Act the following are commended for early consideration : — (1.) For the heating of workrooms on the lines of the clause inserted in the Shops and Offices Act last session. (2.) Making it an offence for any person to take belting off machinery while the latter is in motion. '3.) That in the absence of any contract to the contrary, the Act shall be deemed to provide for a minimum notice of termination of employment of one week. Such a clause would obviate many difficulties that arise where no agreement of any kind has been entered into at the time of engagement.

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Slight. Moderate. Serious. Fatal. Total. 1910-11 1911-12 1912-13 1913-14 , i 638 792 837 879 I I 145 167 84 165 77 50 32 52 t I I ! 12 11 8 8 872 1,020 961 1,104 _l_

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SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT. For the reasons given in last year's report—viz., the difficulty in obtaining useful data — no statistics showing the number of assistants employed in shops are now published. This Act continues to work fairly smoothly. The provision of the amending Act of last year to the effect that suitable heating-appliances shall be provided to the satisfaction of the Inspector will no doubt be very much appreciated during the coming winter by the assistants concerned. Steps are already being taken to see that adequate attention is given to the matter. The sitting-accommodation in shops for female assistants as is now more particularly provided for in the same Act is also receiving attention, and officers of the Department have received special instructions to see that this provision of the Act is observed. Prosecutions. The following statement shows the number and nature of the prosecutions under the Act during the year : — Employing assistants overtime without permission ... ... ... 50 Failing to close in terms of requisitions by which the hours are fixed by a majority of shopkeepers concerned ... ... ... ... 48 Failing to grant weekly half-holiday to assistants ... ... ... 47 Failing to close on statutory half-holiday ... ... ... ... 45 Failing to keep wages and time book ... ... ... ... 36 Employing assistants more than the prescribed number of hours ... 9 Failing to pay overtime rates to assistants ... ... ... ... 2 Failing to keep holiday-book in hotels and restaurants ... ... 13 Failing to sign the holiday-book (by hotel employees) ... ... ... 2 Total ... ... ... ... ... ... 252 Altogether 252 cases were taken, as compared with 217 the previous year. Ten cases were dismissed; the reasons were as follow: Offences considered excusable; conflicting evidence; relationship of employer and worker not proved; evidence given that a driver who was delivering goods after the prescribed hour was doing so by contract and was therefore not an assistant; Magistrate took into consideration the fact that at the time of the offence the shop was very busy. Shops and Offices Amendment Act, 1913. A consolidating and amending Bill was introduced before Parliament, and a great deal of evidence was taken in the Labour Bills Committee upon the same. Owing to shortness of time it was found necessary to hold over the consolidating Bill and to proceed with those amendments deemed most urgent. The following are the chief provisions of the Bill as passed : — Section 3 was the outcome of a poll of the electors of the combined districts of Auckland and Christchurch, taken under section 17 of the principal Act, under which the day of the statutory half-holiday may be decided upon by a poll of the electors. In April, 1913, polls at the two cities mentioned were taken, which resulted in the day of the half-holiday being changed from Wednesday to Saturday; the change of day took effect as from the following Ist of June. In Auckland especially some unexpected difficulties arose, disclosing an anomaly in the Act. Under section 18 (b) of the principal Act it had been provided that in the event of Saturday being appointed as the closing-day, any butcher, hairdresser, tobacconist, or photographer might select some other day of the week, but this section did not restrict the privilege to those "exclusively" carrying on the trades indicated, with the result that a number of shopkeepers engaged in those trades but also selling other goods were able to gain an advantage over other shopkeepers who were compelled to close on Saturday afternoon. Section 3 of the amendment of 1913 inserts the word "exclusively," and at the same time has extended the provision to porkbutchers (as well as butchers). It was also as a result of the "change of the day to Saturday in Auckland that section 2 of the amendment, adding the Eden Terrace Road District to the several boroughs composing the combined district, was inserted, the road district being adjacent to the combined district, and the day for same having hitherto been Wednesday. Section 5 provides that heating-appliances to the satisfaction of the Inspector shall be provided. Upon the advice of the Health Department, the Department has fixed 60 degrees (Fahrenheit) as a general standard for the purpose of this section. The most important section of the amendment is section 8, which makes certain provision by which, under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, a whole holiday of twentyfour hours per week shall be granted by the Court of Arbitration to hotel and restaurant assistants when an award affecting these workers is being made. Ihe provision does not, however, apply to small establishments where less than five persons are ordinarily employed, nor to any

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hotel or restaurant or to any locality where the Court is satisfied that such whole holiday would not be reasonably practicable.* Section 11, also affecting hotel and restaurant assistants, reduces the maximum weekly hours of females and of boys under sixteen in such establishments from fifty-eight to fifty-six. Considerable difficulty is experienced by Inspectors in detecting whether assistants are employed beyond the time fixed for ceasing work, owing to the fact that in allowing the employment of each assistant till a late hour (9 o'clock) on one night a week, the Act has not in any way indicated how that night should be fixed for each week; the result is that unless an Inspector is able to ascertain and prove that an assistant has been employed till such late hour on at least two nights of the week (the first lawful and the other unlawful) he cannot succeed in disclosing a breach. Many breaches no doubt escape detection on this account, and it is desirable, in the interests of those shopkeepers who observe the law as well as of the assistants, that the late night be fixed in some way. Suggested Amendment to Act. An amendment of the Act that has frequently been suggested is that provision should be made similar to that contained in the Factories Act regarding the age at which boys and girls may commence work —viz., that no boy or girl under sixteen years of age may be employed without a certificate of fitness for the work proposed, and in any event no child under thirteen years of age shall be employed. At present there is no restriction in the Act. INDUSTRIAL CONCILIATION AM) ARBITRATION ACT. Strikes. Although most of the circumstances of the series of strikes of waterside workers and others which occurred during the year are generally known, it is well, for the purpose of future reference, to place the facts upon record. The following is an official report obtained by officers of the Department: — Wellington Waterside Workers' Strike and other Strikes arising therefrom. These strikes commenced with the cessation of work by the Wellington shipwrights on the 18th October, 1913, and reached a climax with the calling of a general strike by the New Zealand Federation of Labour on the 10th November following. The strikes were apparently the outcome of a dispute between the Wellington Shipwrights' Union and the Union Steamship Company. This union was, at the time the dispute commenced, registered under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, but had no award or industrial agreement; the members of the union were therefore not bound by the strike provisions of the Act. The members were working under a longstanding verbal agreement; the company's repairing-yard was situated in Wellington City; under this agreement, when work was performed at the Patent Slip (a repairing-yard for steamers, &c, situated some three miles from the city), travelling-time had been allowed either by half an hour's wages or by free conveyance. On the 3rd March, 1913, the Union Steamship Company removed its headquarters for repairing-work from the city to its new premises adjoining the Patent Slip, which had been in course of erection for some time. The company then stopped payment of the customary allowance for travelling-time, holding that the new premises had become the company's place of business for shipwrighting-work. The union demanded that this allowance should be continued. Negotiations followed, but broke down owing to the union refusing to agree to the terms of compromise offered by the company : these were —permanent employment at £3 7s. per week, instead of the hourly rate of Is. 6d. and travelling-time. Ihe union held that the hourly rate plus travelling-time allowance would more than equal the weekly rate offered by the company. Following upon the failure to arrive at a settlement (viz., in June, 1913) the shipwrights cancelled their registration under the Act and joined the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union, which was affiliated with the New Zealand Federation of Labour, a body comprising a number of unions (chiefly waterside workers and miners) not registered under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. The Waterside Workers' Union then made claims on behalf of the shipwrights, but the company refused to negotiate with it, on the ground that the existing agreement between the company and the Waterside Workers' Union, made through the Federation of Labour, did not cover shipwrighting. Further negotiations took place between the Waterside Workers' Union and the company, but proved futile. The shipwrights thereupon ceased work (Saturday, 18th October).

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At 8 a.m. on the 22nd idem the Waterside Workers' Union held a "stop-work" meeting to consider what action should be taken. When the meeting was over the men went to resume the work on which they had been employed on the previous day, but found that other members of the union had been engaged in their places. Another meeting was then held, and it was decided to stop work until the men who had lost their places were reinstated. The several employers of the men refused —viz., the Union Steamship Company, the Wellington Harbour Board, and other shipping companies—holding that in stopping work the men had committed a breach of the Waterside Workers' agreement, a clause of which provided that in the event of any dispute arising between the parties bound by the agreement or out of any matter connected with the agreement no cessation of work should take place, but that the matter should be referred to a committee consisting of representatives of the employers and of the workers for decision. At this stage the Waterside Workers 1 Union handed over the control of the strike to the New Zealand Federation of Labour. Some attempts were then made by business men to load and unload vessels by means of their permanent employees, but these were forcibly prevented by the waterside winkers, and, although negotiations were continued for some time with a view to the settlement of the strike, all attempts to peaceably end the dispute were unsuccessful. A new union of waterside workers was then formed and registered under the Act, and on the 6th November work was recommenced by its members under the protection of a force of special as well as ordinary police. In the meantime the waterside workers at the other principal ports had ceased work in sympathy with those at Wellington, having been called upon by the Federation of Labour to do so. Immediately after the recommencement of work on the Wellington wharves, as above mentioned, the Federation of Labour called upon all unions of workers, including those registered under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, to join in the strike. This call, however, met with little response anywhere but in Auckland. The Wellington drivers (registered union) joined in the strike, but their places were mostly taken by other workers, who formed a newDrivers' Union and registered the same under the Act. The only other large bodies of workers in Wellington who took part in the strike were the builders' labourers (also registered) and the seamen (not registered); the latter left their ships after giving twenty-four hours' notice, and for a short time the coastal and intercolonial steamer services were almost suspended, but by means of volunteer crews services were maintained on the most important lines of communication. Although (except in one instance) the seamen employed in the overseas cargo traffic took no part in the strike, this traffic was suspended in consequence of the same, and was not resumed until after the recommencement of work on the wharves by the members of the new Waterside Workers' Union. The inconvenience caused by the strike in Wellington gradually lessened, and many of the strikers drifted back to their former employment. Within a month from the commencement of work the volume of trade in the city had nearly resumed its former proportions, but the strike was not finally declared " off " until the 20th December. On the cessation of the strike nearly all those who had taken part in it joined the unions which during the strike had been registered under the Act. In Auckland the response to the call for a general strike was more marked, as many as 5,916 workers in various trades having ceased work. With the exception of the waterside workers all the unions w«re registered under the Act. As in Wellington, there was a complete stoppage of cargo traffic for some days. Ihe coastal steamer services were almost entirely suspended owing to the action of seamen in leaving their ships after giving twenty-four hours' notice, and great inconvenience was thereby caused to residents of outlying districts. New unions of waterside workers and seamen were formed, and work upon the wharves was resumed under the protection of special constables and ordinary police. Many of the workers concerned then returned to work after a few days of idleness, and by the 23rd November practically all the strikes in the city had ceased; the original bodies of waterside workers and seamen remained on strike until the Wellington strike was declared off on the 20th December. At Christchurch and Dunedin also some inconvenience was caused by the cessation of work at the adjacent ports, where the waterside workers struck in common with those at Wellington and elsewhere (these unions were not registered). Work was shortly resumed in much the same manner as at Wellington —viz., by the formation of new unions, and with the aid of police. The only workers in Christchurch City who took part in the strike were the drivers (registered); a new Drivers' Union was formed and work was thus resumed. Work was for a time suspended at the smaller ports of New- Plymouth, Nelson, Westport, Picton, and Oamaru, owing to sympathetic strikes of (unregistered) waterside workers at those places, but at Gisborne, Wanganui, Napier, Timaru, and Bluff, where the unions of waterside workers were registered under this Act, no strike took place, and the effects of the disturbance were only indirectly felt. 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The early part of the strike was marked by scenes of disorder at the four principal ports, and at Wellington several conflicts took place between the strikers and the police, in the course of which two civilians were wounded by revolver-shots, and several of the special police by the throwing of missiles. 'Ihe coal-mining industry was almost entirely suspended throughout the Dominion during the strike period, the only mine of any importance which was not closed being that at Kaitangata, where the union was registered under the Act. At the other principal mines the Miners' Unions had some time previously cancelled legist rat ion and affiliated with the Federation of Labour; these miners struck in sympathy with the waterside workers. A coal famine was threatened, and in Auckland the tramway service was for a time suspended owing to shortage of coal, but the famine was averted by the importation of large shipments of foreign coal. When the struggle was given up in December the Miners' Unions decided to return to work, but the mine-owners insisted on their registration under the Act before reopening the mines. In consequence the coal-mining industry was not in full swing until about the middle of January. The total number of miners who took part in the strike was approximately three thousand. The effect of the coal-miners' strikes was particularly felt on the west coast of the South Island, where trade generally was almost entirely stopped for some weeks, and where there was at one time a scarcity of food-supplies owing to the suspension of steamer services. A feature in connection with the strike was the part taken by the waterside workers and seamen in New South Wales, who at one period of the strike decided to boycott all New-Zealand-owncd ships. A number of unions that did not actually join in the strike assisted the strikers b} r contributing to their funds. The strikers also received considerable financial assistance from unions in Australia. The following statement shows particulars in regard to each body of workers that struck: —

Trade. Number of „ ,,,, ., Strikers. Duration of Strike. 150 3 weeks. . 150 3 „ .. 800 3 ., .. Approximate Loss in Wages to Workers. £ 900 1,575 3,750 Auckland brewers and aerated-water employers Auckland bricklayers Auckland carpenters Auckland coal-miners Tluntly .. .. . . Hikurangi, &<•. Auckland drivers Auckland furniture-workers Auckland hotel employees Auckland labourers Auckland painters Auckland seamen Auckland timber-workers Auckland waterside workers New Plymouth waterside workers Wellington builders' labourers .. Wellington drivers ., . . Wellington seamen .. * Wellington shipwrights, Wellington waterside workers Picton waterside workers Nelson seamen Nelson waterside workers Nelson coal-miners (Puponga and North Cape) Stockton coal-miners Denniston coal-mine is Granity coal-miners Seddonville coal-miners Westport waterside workers Paparoa coal-miners Brunner coal-miners Blackball coal-miners Runanga coal-miners Greymouth waterside workers Ohristchurch drivers Lyttelton waterside workers Oamaru waterside workers Dunedin waterside workers Nightcaps coal-miners . 474 12 „ .. 210 8 „ .. 500 3 „ .. 280 2 ,, 2 days . . 850 3 ., 2 „ .. i 1,000 3 „ 2 ., 200 2 „ .. 400 6 „ .. 376 11 days .. 1,000 6 weeks.. .. I 76 7 ,, 4 days . 310 2 „ .. .. 500 2 .... 1,000 6 .... 30 11 „ .. 1,500 9 „ .. 50 2 „ .. 40 6 „ .. .. 50 8 „ .. 94 9 „ .. 185 9 „ .. 540 9 „ .. 588 9 „ .. 80 11 „ .. 76 7 „ 1 days .. 73 11 „ 2 „ .. 83 9 „ .. 354 13 „ 3 days .. 347 11 „ 4 „ .. 200 6 „ 5 „ .. 60 4 „ .. 450 9 „ .. 75 6 „ .. 500 7 , 80 8 „ 2 days .. 13,731 19.600 5,500 3,750 1,680 2.000 7.250 900 4.000 2.707 15.000 152 1,600 2,500 12,000 1.200 33,000 65 300 800 3.002 6,350 15,300 16,500 4,000 2.000 2,750 2,000 15,000 15,000 2,750 576 20,250 280 7,875 2,740 236,602 Totals ..

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The above figures cannot be relied on as being more than approximate; in addition to the workers included in this list, however, there was a large number indirectly affected by the strike. It has not yet been possible to arrive at any estimate of the loss caused to employers, but inquiries are being continued, and it is expected that the figures will be available for the next annual report of the Department. Other Strikes. Other strikes (prior to those previously dealt with but which occurred during the year) are as follow :— Coal-miners, Blackball (18th August to 12th September, 1913). —In this case the men struck owing to the refusal of a demand for the abolition of the shift between midnight and 8 a.m. The dispute was settled at a conference between the union delegates and the employers, by which it was arranged that not more than six pairs of men should be employed on this shift, and that an increase on the ordinary rates of payment should be made for places worked in three shifts. The loss in wages to the workers concerned is estimated at .£5,000. The strike was not illegal, as there was no award or industrial agreement in force affecting these workers. Coal-miners, Puponga (7th April to 28th May, 1913). —litis strike took place in consequence of the discharging of two truckers and the using of a pony instead for the purpose of hauling trucks. The miners asked for the reinstatement of the two truckers, and as this demand was not complied with they ceased work. In the course of the strike a disturbance took place, during which a hut occupied by a deputy was burnt down. The men returned to work under the old agreement, the employers agreeing to discharge the deputy whose hut had been burnt down. Ihe loss to the workers is estimated at .£1,600, and the loss to the employers at £700. As there was no award or industrial agreement in force affecting the strikers their action was not illegal. Cement-workers, Warkworth (15th September to Ist October, 1913). —The employees of the Warkworth Portland Cement Works, numbering about 140, struck owing to the refusal of a demand for an increase of Is. a day in their wages. The strike was eventually settled by negotiations between the United Federation of Labour, on behalf of the men, and the employers. A compromise was arranged, the men agreeing to accept an increase of 6d. per day. The loss in wages to the workers concerned is estimated at £750. The strike was not illegal, as the workers were not bound by any award or industrial agreement. Coal-miners, Stockton (Westport), (6th October to 20th October, 1913). —This dispute arose owing to the opening of a new mine, which necessitated some of the workers leaving their homes ten minutes earlier than before. Shortly after this arrangement commenced these men decided to leave their homes at the same time as before the new mine was opened, with the result that they arrived at their work ten minutes late. The management declined to allow them to start work, and all hands in the mine then struck. Eventually the miners decided to resumf work under the existing conditions, the employers refusing to make any concession. This strike was not illegal, there being no award or industrial agreement in force affecting these workers. The loss to the workers concerned is estimated at £2,100. Coal-miners, Huntly (20th October. 1913, to 6th January, 1914). —This strike arose from the dismissal of certain men who it was alleged were " victimized " on account of their opposition to the formation of the union which had recently been registered under the Act. There were prospects of an early settlement of the trouble, when the Wellington waterside workers' strike took place, and the miners'decided to remain on strike until that was settled. Eventually a new union was registered,'* and most of the strikers joined it and resumed work under a new agreement. 'Ihere were also several minor disputes, which were of a trivial nature, and in which it was not necessary for the Department to take any action, viz. :— Rope-factory hands, Auckland (two days). Storemen, Vacuum Oil Company, Auckland : In this case the workers were employed casually, and on their ceasing work the remainder of the cargo which they had been handling was sent to Wellington. Firemen, s.s. "Te Anau," Lyttelton : In this case the men, who refused to accept the wages offered by the employers for a special trip, were paid off, and the proposed trip was abandoned. Waterside workers, Wellington (re s.s. " Devon " —one day). Coal-miners, Denniston (two days). Lockout. There was one alleged lockout during the year, in which case a sheepowner had dismissed a number of shearers because they had refused to shear certain sheep which they considered to be "wet." In legal proceedings instituted by the Department, the Court held that the wetness was not due to rain, but to perspiration, and dismissed the case.

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Decisions of Arbitration Court of Special Interest. The following decisions of the Court of Arbitration given during the course of the year are of special interest:— A provision contained in a recommendation of the Conciliation Council, prohibiting a worker who is employed full time from working for another employer, was struck out by the Court when making the Auckland Coachworkers' award, the Court holding that there is no jurisdiction to insert such a provision. (Book of Awards, Vol. xiv, p. 611.) A condition of "preference of employment" for the members of a Journalists' Union— viz., that the union must maintain an independent existence and not join any association of trades-unions —was made by the Court in the Christchurch Newspaper Reporters and Proofreaders' award. (Book of Awards, Vol. xiv, p. 432.) In -an appeal against a decision of the Registrar, who had refused registration of the Auckland Pork-butchers' Union, the Court held that some of the rules of the existing Butchers' Union were objectionable, in that they provided that fines of an unlimited amount might be inflicted on members for breaches of the rules. It was further held that any union, having similar rules to those in question, which applied to the Court for an award to include " preference " would run a serious risk of having that concession refused. (Book of Awards, Vol. xiv, p. 767; Labour Journal, November, 1913.) In consequence of this decision the Department has found it necessary to allow less latitude to unions in the framing of their rules than formerly. A case of considerable importance to unions was decided in the Supreme Court when the secretary of the Wellington Typographical Union, as plaintiff, brought a friendly action against the union to determine the question as to whether a union registered under the Act may vote part of its funds for the aid of the families of men who were on strike and whose occupation was not that of typographers. It was held that it is not lawful for a union registered in respect of one industry to apply any of its funds for the purpose of assisting workers in any other industry; and although it was not in this case necessary to answer the question, a serious doubt was expressed by one of the Judges as to whether, in view of the title and the scope or purpose of the Act. it is lawful for a union registered under the Act to aid anj strike. (January J.abour Journal, 1914.) In view of the amount of interest taken in the question as to whether it should be permissible to use the funds of unions for political purposes, the following brief review of the English Trade-union Act, passed last year, is quoted. By this Act the funds of a trade-union may be applied to political objects only if the majority of members approve of the object by a secret ballot; but payments for such objects must in all cases be made out of a separate fund maintained for that purpose, and any member formally notifying his unwillingness to contribute to the political fund shall be exempted, and contribution to the fund is not to be made a condition of membership of the union. Cases occasionally continue to arise when the provisions of awards are evaded. An example occurred during the year under the Auckland Performing Musicians' award, where it was found that members of an orchestra employed in a theatre had returned a large proportion of their wages to the proprietors in return for a certain number of seats in the theatre : this was held by the Court to be simply a device for defeating the provisions of the award. Particulars of judgments, under the heading " Applications for Awards in which no Award was made " will be founcl on page 45 of this report. The following classes of Arbitration Court awards made during the year are also noteworthy : — In many of the awards the clauses relating to apprentices provide that all time lost by an apprentice in any year, either through his own default or through sickness, shall be made up by him before entering upon his next year of apprenticeship; any overtime worked by the apprentice is, however, generally to be credited to him as so much time served. It is usually also provided that any time lost by an apprentice through his own default shall, in addition to being made up by him as above mentioned, also be deducted from his wages, and in some cases the same provision is made regarding time lost through sickness. There appears to be a growing tendency to setting up certain standards of efficiency which the workers must attain to entitle them to be classed as competent at their respective trades. It seems desirable that such should be the case in the interests of the general public, the employers, and the workers. An example is that "a fully competent plumber is one able to carry out and complete all plumbing-work required in an ordinary residence," &c. Provision is sometimes made in awards for annual holidays upon completion of twelve months' service. Examples during the year are—district marine engineers, from fourteen to twenty-one

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days; the Otago and Southland cheese-factory managers, a month's holiday; Christchurch newspaper reporters, two weeks' holiday : Wellington Fire Brigade, two weeks' holiday; and Invercargill tramways, from eighi to twelve days' holiday (on full pay). The institution of annual holidays upon completion of twelve months' service should be an incentive to regularity of employment. A departure from the usual preference clauses of awards was made in the Otago-Southland Metal-workers' Assistants' award, wherein it is provided that it shall be sufficient compliance with the preference olause in the Boilermakers and Iron-ship Builders' award if the machinists engaged as workmen under such award are members of the Metal-workers' Assistants' Union. A somewhat curious position was disclosed when the Invercargill and Oamaru Performing Musicians' award was made. It appears that a union, registered in Dunedin, included in its membership a number of workers in [nvercargill, and upon its application an award was made covering Invercargill. Prior to the making of this award a separate union of other musicians was formed in Invercargill and registered, and the members of this union had entered into an " industrial agreement " with their particular employers (in Invercargill). The result is that there is an award and an industrial agreement both in force in one town affecting different sets of employers and workers and fixing different rates of wages. In a memorandum to the award the Court stated that there seemed to be a desire amongst the workers belonging to the Invercargill union to have their rates regulated by an industrial agreement, and the Court held that there is no valid reason for not giving effect to that desire. It would appear that these latter workers are engaged for only a portion of their time in the performance of music, while those coming under the award were mostly engaged the whole of their time. New Legislation. During the last session of Parliament the following measures were introduced : — The In<1 us! nal Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1918. This measure rectified an error in the 1911 amendment to the Act as disclosed by a judgment (.f the Court of Arbitration. The amendment, though small, was an important one in that it affirmed the principle already laid down in the older Act respecting recommendations of the Conciliation Boards —viz., that a recommendation of a Conciliation Board or Council set up for the hearing of a dispute should not have the wide scope of an award, for the reason that. although none of the parlies to the dispute may have disagreed with the recommendation, the parties do not necessarily comprise the whole of the employers and workers engaged in the industry in the district, and might in fact consist of only a few of them. Such a recommendation therefore becomes binding on the parties concerned in the same manner as an " industrial agreement " of the parties thereto. If in lieu thereof any party to the dispute desires that an award lie made lie can refei it in the ordinary way to the Arbitration Court for the purpose. The Labour Disputes Investigation Act, 1913. This Act is an important one inasmuch as it provides machinery for the investigation of all industrial disputes not coming within the scope of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. The latter Act, first passed in 1891. had enabled workers in almost any calling to invoke its aid in the settlement of disputes with the employers, and until some seven years ago the Act had proved sufficient to ensure industrial peace. Dissatisfaction amongst the workers in certain occupations caused them to withdraw from the protection of the Act, with the result that, as is well enough known, quite a number of strikes, some of considerable magnitude, have taken place. Although frequently spoken of as a compulsory arbitration system, the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act had never imposed compulsion upon the workers, and when a number of large unions withdrew from its scope it was deemed necessary by the Government to consider whether some additional machinery should not be provided by which the disputes in which these unions are concerned would be investigated. This inquiry resulted in the passing of the Labour Disputes Investigation Act, which was first introduced as Part VI of a consolidated Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Bill. Owing in pressure of time the latter measure was held over, and Part VI was passed as a separate Acr under the above-mentioned title. This Act differs from the Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act thus— (1.) It applies to all trades (not only to public utilities): (2.) It provides for more elasticity in the constitution of tribunals for the investigation of disputes (although Canada is a vast country it provides for only one class of Board, comprising one representative of each side with an independent chairman) :

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(3.) It fixes a limit of fourteen days for the investigation of disputes (while in Canada no limit of time is fixed) : (4.) Provision is also made for a secret ballot of the workers after the investigation of the dispute affected before a strike- ma\ take place. This Act did not come into force until after the expiration of the year covered by this report —viz., on the Ist April, 1914—but until the date of writing no dispute coming under its provisions has arisen. The Industrial Concilia!inn ami Arbitration BUI. 191.', (No. .!). This measure was introduced to consolidate the existing Acts and its several amendments to date, and to effect certain other machinery amendments. Owing to pressure of time it was found necessary to introduce I'art VI. referred to in the preceding paragraph, as a separate measure and to postpone consideration of the remainder of the Pill. Reoistration of Industrial Unions and Associations. The work in connection with the registration of industrial unions, Ac. was particularly heavy during the year, ninety new unions of workers and employers being registered, as against forty-six during the previous year. Tin- membership of the unions so registered totalled 3,082, The increase was entirely in the number of workers' unions, as out of this number there were only fourteen employers' unions registered, with 189 members, as against twenty-one such unions during the previous year. The following table gives particulars as to the registration of associations and unions:—

Only one workers' union and one association of workers' unions voluntary cancelled registration. Eight workers' unions and nine employers' unions and two associations of workers' unions were cancelled as being defunct. Twenty complete and thirty-four partial amendments of rules were registered during the year. The usual annual return (to 31st December, 1913) of the unions registered under the Act, with their membership at that date, is published separately in Parliamentary Paper H.-11a, as required by the Act. For convenience of reference this parliamentary paper will be bound with this report as " Appendix A." The following table shows the number of unions and members thereof (both employers and workers) from the 31st December. 1905, to the -'Slst December, 1913, inclusive: —

It will be seen from the above table that there have been large increases in the membership and number of both employers' and workers' unions during the year. Unions of employers show an increase of eleven, with a membership increase of 290, while,the number of workers' unions is increased by fifty, and the total membership of same is increased by 10,922. With regard to the latter figures it must be remembered, however, that during the strike of 1913 many new unions were registered, and some hundreds of men who belonged to the original unions, and whose names appeared on the certified lists of same, subsequently joined the now unions,

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. -„:_.■ Associations Unions of Associates Unions ()f ()| Workers. jZ°™ Employers. Empjoyers , I'nions. Total number registered .. . . .. Number registered before the waterside workers' strike Number registered during the waterside workers' strike Number registered after the waterside workers' strike ■ i 76 4 14 1 31 2 10 1 19 1 2 26 1 2

•ecember, 1905 .. 1906 .. 1907 .. 1908 .. 1909 .. 1910 .. 1911 .. 1912.. 1913.. • •f Unions of Employers. Unions of Workers. Number of Number of Number of Number of Unions. Members. Unions. Members. 113 3,276 261 29,869 109 3,337 274 34,978 121 3,630 310 45,614 122 3,918 325 49,347 120 3,702 308 54,519 118 4,262 308 57,091 118 4,251 307 55,629 123 • 4,410 322 60,622 134 4,700 372 71,544 113 109 121 122 120 118 118 123 134

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their names thus appearing on the roll of each. To this fact some of the large increase shown above is due. The following table shows the number of members of workers' unions, as shown in the returns, classilied into their respective groups of trades: —

Business dealt with by Conciliation Councils, Arbitration Court, etc. The business dealt with by the Councils of Conciliation, Court of Arbitration, &c., under the Act during the year ending 31st March, 1914, is summarized in the following table:— Industrial agreements ... ... ... ... ... ... 42 Recommendations of Councils of Conciliation (for particulars see reports of Conciliation Commissioners, page 11) ... ... .. 166 Awards of the Arbitration Court ... ... ... ... ... !).'! Applications for awards refused (see page 45) ... ... ,'| Enforcements of awards (conducted by Department) in Arbitration Court.. 8 Interpretation of awards ... ... ... .. ... ... 20 Other decisions (amending awards, adding parties, eve.) ... ... 18 Appeals from decisions of Stipendiary Magistrates in enforcement cases ... 5 Appeal from Registrar's decision to refuse registration of union ... 1 (The Arbitration Court also dealt with sixty-four cases under the Workers' Compensation Act (see page 22). Magistrates' Courts — Enforcements of awards. &C. (conducted by Department) ... ... +2") Enforcements of awards (conducted by unions) .. ... ... 4 Enforcements of sections 5 and (i. Amendment Act (re strikes and lockouts)'... ... ... ... ... ... ... 7 Permits to undyr-rate workers granted by Inspectors of Factories and secretaries of unions ... ... ... ... ... ... LOS Work performed by Arbitration Court, Conciliation Boards, and Conciliation Councils (also Industrial Agreements made) during the Tears 1905-11,.

Work performed by Arbitration Court, Conciliation Boards, and Conciliation Councils (also Industrial Agreements made) during the Years 1906-14.

Trades. Trades. Numbers. 1912. 1913. Decrease. Increase. Agriculture Building and woodworking Clothing Iron and metal Shipwrighting Light, heat, and power producing Food Mining Printing Transport .. . . ... Leather, tanning, &c. Stone, clay, and allied trades Miscellaneous \musements * 4,680 5,207 10,893 11,268 4,119 4,524 3,192 2,542 170 176 120 308 7,525 8,076 2,822 3,788 1,568 1,681 13,260 21,766 . j 2,434 2,236 484 435 9,355 8,813 724 650 198 49 542 527 375 405 6 188 551 966 113 8,506 Totals 60,622 71,544 60,622 71,544 1,439 1,439 i 12,361 12,361 Total increase 10,922 * Performing musicians, stage employees, biograph operators. &o.

Sear. Industrial Agreemen 1 s. j Recommendations of Boards and Counoils. Award- of Court of Arbitration. 1905-6 1906-7 1907-8 1908-9 1909. 10 .. 1910 II .. 1911-12 .. 1912 13 ..' 1913-14 .. 6 4 10 12 14 17 26 31 12 7 12 15 9 102* 87 119 118 L66 52 59 98 88 88 71 80 94 93 Totals L£2 636 726 l<12 636 726 726 * Since the passing of the amending Act o Conciliation Board.-. most of fcheee recommend* if it >f 1908, providing for the constitution of Conciliation Councils in lieu of itions were, with slight alteration, made into awards, f I!) tioii 908 n- ■ s. providing f were, with si for iligl • the constitution of Conci ht alteration, made into av ili,ii wai iliiin Councils in lieu i rds,

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The awards and agreements actually in force as at the 31st March last totalled 4 45. and the following table shows the number operating in each industrial district: Northern (Auckland and Poverty Bay) ... .. J07 ■Wellington (including Bawke's Bay) ... ... ... Ill Canterbury ... ... ... ... 91 Otago and Southland ... ... ... ... ... 88 Taranaki ' ... ... ... ... ... 12 Marlborough ... ... ... ... .. 7 Nelson ... ... ... ... ... 9 Westland ... ... ... ... ... ... j 7 Other business dealt with is as follows : — Enforcements ok Awards, Industrial Agreements, etc. Cases taken by the Department for enforcement of awards, &c., total 433—viz., eight in the Arbitration Court and 425 in the Magistrates' Court. Of the total number 401 were successful Fines, £650 14s. It should be explained in regard to the cases dismissed that many of them were debatable or technical, and were therefore mostly test cases.

Cases taken by the Department (shown in Districts) for Enforcement of Awards, and of Miscellaneous Provisions of the Act.

In four eases defendants appealed to the Court of Arbitration, all of which appeals were dismissed. Four eases were also taken by unions (in Magistrates' Court). Total cases taken by Successful. . l"nsuccessful. Total. Unions ... ... ... ... ... 1 3 4 Grand totals ... ... ... ... 402 35 437* Fines— £ s. .1. Departmental cases ... ... ... ... ... 650 14 0 Union cases ... ... ... ... ... ... 0 5 0 Most of the eases taken under miscellaneous provisions of the Act were for failure to keep a wages and overtime liook, including three against employers for making wilfully false entries in the book. In one* instance a fine of £50 was imposed, as it was proved that defendant had, for a period, successfully misled the Inspector by the wilful falsification of his entries. (Defendant was also fined £10 for failing to pay award rate of wages.) Three were dismissed— (1) as there was some doubt in the evidence as to the keeping of the wages-book ; (2) (where an employer was proceeded against for dismissing a worker because, it was alleged, he was president of a workers' union) the evidence showed that the worker had not been legally appointed president of the union; and (3) (where an employee had been dismissed allegedly because he had acted as an assessor on a Council of Conciliation) the Magistrate held that defendant had other reasons than that alleged for dispensing with the services of the worker concerned.

* This total includes»strike and lockout cases as follow :— (v.) Six strike cases were against dredgemen in the gold-mining industry. Fines: two at £5, two at £3, one at 10s., one case dismissed. (These strikes took place during the preceding year. (6.) One case was against a sheepowner who had allegedly locked out shearers because they had refused to shear sheep which they considered to be " wet." The Magistrate convicted defendant and imposed a fine of £25. Defendant appealed to the Arbitration Court, which upheld the appoal (on the ground that the wetness was not due to rain but to perspiration).

District. Successful. Unsuccessful. Total. Northern Taranaki Wellington Marlborough Nelson Westland Canterbury Otago and Southland 182 10 108 1 7 1 52 40 12 12 194 10 120 I 7 1 52 48 8 Total cases taken by Department 401 32 433

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The following is an analysis showing the nature of the cases taken against employers and workers during the year ending 31st March, 1914 : — t. t . t r\a Number of Cases Nature ot Offence. . , taken. Failing to pay award rate (minimum wage) ... •■ ... ... 102 Accepting less than award rate (minimum wage) ... ... ... 35 Failing to pay overtime rates ... ... ... ... 19 Accepting less than overtime rates ... ... ... ... ... It) Failing to give preference to unionists ... ... ... ... 13 Failing to indenture apprentices ... ... ... .. ... 7 Employing more apprentices than allowed by award in proportion to journeymen ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 7 Failing to pay wages at weekly or fortnightly intervals ... ... 10 Deducting from wages and failing to pay wages in full ... ... 16 Taking part in a strike ... ... ... ... ... ... 6 Creating a lockout ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Failing to keep wages and overtime book ... ... ... ... 52 Failing to exhibit copies of awards ... ... ... ... ... 5 For miscellaneous breaches of awards (by employers) ... ... ... 113 For miscellaneous breaches of awards (by workers) ... ... ... 37 Grand total ... ... ... ... ... ... 437* Total number of cases against employers ... ... ... ... 349 Total number of cases against employees ... ... ... ... 88 Inspectors of Awards and Clerks of Courts have during the year collected penalties amounting to £423 lis. from employers, and £50 19s. 6d. from workers. The total number of cases from inception of Act in 1894 to 31st March, 1914. in which penalties were inflicted is—Employers, 2,941 ; workers,f 898.

It should be explained that of the amount outstanding a considerable sum is owing byemployers and workers who were only recently fined; steps are being taken in the usual way to collect the amounts due. Councils op Conciliation. The work of the Conciliation Commissioners and of Conciliation Councils is summarized in the following table : —

Compared with last year the above results show that thirty-eight more oases were fully settled during the present period. Since their establishment in January, 1909, the Councils have dealt with 592 cases, and of this total 404 have been fully settled, whilst the number referred

* Four of these cases were taken by the unions concerned. f Other than slaughtermen fined for striking in 1907. Regarding those fines—viz., £1,330 —tho sum of £295, or 22 per cent, of the whole amount, is still outstanding. No further payments in respect to these fine 3 have been made since last report.

Employers. Worke Workers. ere. 'otal amount of penalties 'otal amount paid 'otal amount outstanding £ s. d. Percentage. 7,255 19 6 6,740 11 8 93 515 7 10 7 £ s. d. 989 13 0 804 15 1 184 17 11 Percentage. 81J

Industrial District. Number Number partially Number in which no . j2 settled (and referred Settlement was made, ,., ', to Arbitration Court and whole Dispute e e iforFinalSettlement). was referred to Court. Total. •/ lorthern and Taranaki (Commissioner Harle Giles) Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland (Commissioner Hally) ianterbury and Otago and Southland (Commissioner Triggs) :;i 8 6 45 45 10 2 57 Sβ 10 18 64 Grand totals 112 28 26 166

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to the Court — i.e., in which no agreement has been effected by the Commissioners and their assessors —totals eighty-one. Cases partially settled — i.e., leaving but a few clauses over to the Court —total 107. The reports of the Commissioners appear in this report (see page 41). Expenditure) of Court and Councils, The following table shows the expenditure of (a) Councils of Conciliation, and (b) Court of Arbitration for the years 1910-11, 1911-12, 1912-13, 1913-14:—

This table includes the salaries of the Conciliation Commissioners (£1,500) and of the members of the Court (£2,800). It will be noted that the expenditure for the Conciliation Councils shows a decrease of £380 4s. 7d. compared with last year's figures, while the Arbitration Court expenditure also shows a slight decrease (£35 12s. Id.). The expenditure was no doubt affected by the fact that for nearly two months of the financial year, whilst the strikes of workmen were in progress, the machinery of the Act was not utilized to the same extent as usual. The expenses of assessors of the Councils during 1913-14 for fees and travelling-expenses are as follow :—

Comparing the totals with last year's expenditure (£2,083 155.) there has been a decrease of £310 Is. 2d. ARREARS OF WAGES, ETC., RECOVERED FOR WORKERS UNDER VARIOUS ACTS. The following table shows the amounts collected by the Department's Inspectors on behalf of workers during the year : —

Grand total, £1,894 15s. 9d. The above amounts represent the collections made, on behalf of workers, of wages, <fee, in dispute, due by employers, and where it has been found that the facts warrant a settlement without recourse to legal proceedings.

1010-11. £ s. d. 2,897 6 2 3,897 13 5 1911-12. 1912-Kf. £ a. d. £ s. (1. 3,612 6 6 3,957 5 7 3,312 7 11 4,214 13 11 |'.h:m4. £ S. d. 3,577 1 0 4,179 1 10 Jouncils Arbitration Court Totals 6,794 19 7 6,924 14 r> i 8,171 19 6 7,756 i 2 10

Industrial District. Fees. Travellingexpenses. Total. forthern and Taranaki Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland ianterbuiy and Otago and Southland £ s. d. £ s. (1. 487 4 0 74 7 6 468 6 0 147 16 3 490 7 0 105 13 1 £ s. 561 11 616 2 596 0 d. 6 3 I Totals 1,445 17 0 327 16 10 1,773 13 10

Industrial District. Under the Industrial Conciliation and Aibitration Act. Under the Factories Act. Under the Shops and Offices Act. Northern Taranaki Wellington Westland Canterbury Otago and Southland .. £ s. d. 558 <) 1 25 10 10 414 11 1 £ s. d. 3 16 5 £ s. d. 20 10 9 6 5 0 57 1 5 356 1 10 226 0 3 22 16 7 58 16 8 77 0 6 23 16 5 18 9 8 25 9 3 Totals 1,580 13 1 1,186 6 7 127 6 ]

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WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT. During the .year sixty-four actions for the recovery of compensation were taken to Conn. In twenty-eight of these eases written judgments were delivered, and the following is a summary of same. In four cases the relatives of workers who had been killed by accident were awarded compensation amounting to .£575 (assessed by the Court according to the degree of dependancy of the relatives); in ten cases compensation was awarded to workers who had been injured in the. course of their employment; and fourteen cases were dismissed. The following decisions are of special interest: — ( I.) In a case where compensation was claimed for injury to an eye the Court awarded the full amount of compensation provided in the schedule to the Act for loss of use of one eye —viz., 30 per cent.* of the compensation as f?ir total incapacity —although the eye was not completely lost, but was merely rendered useless for the purpose of earning a living. In making this decision the Judge remarked that the general rule to be applied in construing the Act is that the injury for which compensation is given is not mutilation or disfigurement or loss of physical power, but loss or diminution of capacity to earn wages; in the case of the injuries specified in the Second Schedule to the Act, however, the Legislature has provided that certain compensation shall be payable for the loss of the joints or members of the body specified, whether the earningcapacity of the worker be diminished or not. By the 1911 amendment of the Act it was further provided that the expression " loss of " shall, for the purposes of the sohedule, be deemed to mean " permanent loss of the use of." In this case the Court ruled that " permanent loss of the use of the eye meant " for the purpose of earning a living," although the accident had not rendered the eye wholly useless for general purposes. (Grace v. The Auckland Gas Company: Vol. xii of Decisions under the Act, p. 10). (2.) An ironworker claimed compensation for an accident by which lie lost the sight of the left eye. Some years previously he had lost the use of his right eye, and it was contended on his behalf that he was now entitled to compensation as for total permanent incapacity in accordance with section 5 of the Act. The Court held that compensation must lie assessed not under the ordinary provisions of the xVct (section 5), but under the Second Schedule, which fixes compensation for the total loss of the sight of one eye at 30 per cent, of the amount payable in the ease of total incapacity. At the time of this judgment the schedule fixed 100 per cent, for the loss of both eyes (or of the use of both of them) but only 30 per cent, tor the loss of one eye. The schedule did not, however, meet the cases (a) where the two eyes are lost in separate accidents, in which case only GO per cent, would be payable (not Km per cent.)t; and (b) where the worker having previously lost one eye (as in this case) afterwards loses the second eve. It has been claimed that the percentage payable for the loss of an eye might reasonably be 30 per cent, where the other eye is left uninjured, and 70 per cent, where the worker has hail only one eye and has lost same. The fixing of varying percentages for the loss of an eye would, however, lead to other difficulties, and the schedule to the Act was therefore amended, as already stated, by fixing 50 per cent, for each eye. The judgment in this case seems to indicate, too, that, but for the Second Schedule to the Act, whose intention is to afford workers improved claims for compensation, the worker would probably have received full, or nearly full, compensation (100 per cent.) under the ordinary provisions of the Act (section 5) on the ground of total incapacity had the amount of compensation been within the discretion of the Court. (Hales v. Seagar Bros. : Vol. xii, p. 42.), (3.) A worker had met with a series of accidents but only the last of them caused immediate incapacity, and for this accident compensation was duly paid, the plaintiff signing a receipt in full release of his claim. One of the prior minor accidents subsequently developed serious consequences, and the worker proceeded for further compensation. It was contended on behalf of the defendant that the want of a formal notice and the release executed by the plaintiff were a bar to the plaintiff's claim. The Court held that the defence had not been prejudiced by the want of a formal notice, and that the release had been obtained tinder the stress of the claimant's poverty; also that the bargain was unconscionable and could not be relied on in a Court of equity. Compensation was awarded. (Murton v. Auckland Harbour Board: Vol. xii, p. 23.) (4.) In another case a widow claimed compensation on account of the death of her husband, although the deceased had not contributed to her support for about twenty years. The claim was made under a special provision contained in section 4 of the amending Act of 1911, which states that in the case of a widow the dependancy shall be conclusively presumed to have existed.

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and. further, that it shall be deemed to have been total unless it is proved to have been partial only. 'Ihe Court held, therefore, that some compensation must in either event be awarded, but as the dependancy was merely nominal a nominal sum of £5 was awarded as compensation. (Public Trustee v. McMahon and another: Vol. xii, pp. 37, 10.) Workers' Compensation Amendment Aot, 1913. This measure effects a number of minor alterations upon the principal Act. The chief of them are as follow :— Section 2: The sum oi £2(1. allowed in the ease of the death of a worker under section 4 of the principal Act for medical or surgical attendance ami for funeral expenses, is increased by the amendment to £50. Section 4 provides for a more liberal compensation In the case of young persons who meet with accidents than is prescribed by section i) of the principal Act. The intention of sec tion !l was that when a young person meets with an accident his compensation should be based not merely upon tin 1 rate of his earnings as a young person, but upon the wages that he would be likely to receive as an adult. Section 4 of the amendment extends this provision to those workers over twenty-one years of age who. by reason of being apprentices or improvers, are also in living low rates of wages. In order to obviate delay as much as possible section 7 makes provision, when the parties to an action for compensation so agree, that the claim may be settled by a Magistrate instead of awaiting a sitting of the Court of Arbitration. As already explained on page 22, section 11 increases the rate of compensation for the loss of an eye from 30 per cent, to 50 per cent, of the compensation for total incapacity. SCAFFOLDING INSPECTION ACT. During the year 1,488 notices of intention to erect scaffolds were received; all of the structures were inspected, many on several occasions. Extracts from the reports of (he Inspectors appointed under the Act appear on page 38 of this report. They show thai under the constant supervision of the Inspectors the requirements of the Act have been well observed, and with few exceptions the scaffolds used by workmen are constructed of sound materials and are erected in a workmanlike manner. Owing no doubt to the vigilance of the Inspectors, the tendency to use defective gear is happily docreasing, and appears to be generally confined to employers performing small jobs on buildings lasting for a few days only. In this connection it is pleasing to record that, although nearly live hundred scaffolds were erected during the year in the City of Christchurch, not one accident was recorded as being suffered by any of the workmen employed thereon. Accidents. The accidents reported under the Act total seventy-seven (last year 118), and the following classifies them according to their severity: Slight, 51; moderate, 17: serious, (i ; fatal, 3: total, 77. The circumstances in which the three fatal accidents occurred were as follow: A carpenter fell 20ft. through a will hole; a labourer fill of- a Ladder from a height of 12ft.; a worker employed upon concrete-foundation work was killed by a wall which gave way and fell in. Prosecutions. There were twenty-four prosecutions taken before the Court under this Act, for the following offences : — Failing to notify Inspector of intention to erect scaffolding over 16 ft. in height ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 20 Permitting use of ladder which did not extend at least 5 ft. beyond the level to which such ladder was intended to afford access ... ... I Failing to report accidents ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 Total ... ... ... ... ... ... 24 Of the twenty-four eases, two were dismissed —the first as it was not proved that defendants had control of the work (the employees having lieen "borrowed " for the job), and the second as the defendant had only lately taken over the contract; in this case the Magistrate warned defendant to be more careful in future regarding his obligations under the Act,

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Suggested Amendment to Act. It has been urged that the benefits of this Act should be extended to cover not merely the erection of scaffolding, but all work performed by workers in the building trade. Many men are engaged in the erection, alteration, and demolition of buildings where no scaffolding is being used, and are nevertheless working in places of danger. The suggestion is commended to your careful consideration. THE SHEARERS' AND AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS' ACCOMMODATION ACT, 1908. Shearers' Accommodation. By means of the inspections made from time to time by the Department's Inspectors, a gradual improvement is being effected throughout the whole of the Dominion in the accommodation provided for shearers. The total number of stations inspected throughout the Dominion was 292. Of these, JB9 were found to provide satisfactory accommodation, forty-three required minor alterations to be made, thirty-four required extensive alterations, and twentysix had no proper accommodation. In the instances where defects were found notices were served on the occupiers to ensure compliance with the Act. In consequence of the number of complaints received a special inspection was made of the accommodation provided for shearers in the Wellington, Hawke's Bay, and Gisborne districts, an expert officer being detailed for the purpose. Details showing the inspections made and condition of the accommodation provided in the several districts of the Dominion are given on page 33. The Department has experienced some difficulty in effecting compliance with the requirements of the Act in regard to sleeping-accommodation where Europeans and Maoris are employed, owing to the fact that the latter usually prefer to sleep upon the floor, and have on occasions taken away the bunks erected for the convenience of shearers. The year following the employment of Maoris Europeans will sometimes be more largely employed, and complaints have then been made as to the lack of bunks or bedsteads; in such cases it has been necessary to call upon the occupiers to replace the bunks. . In several instances it has been found necessary to extend the time specified in the " requisitions " (for improvements to be made) until the following season, on account of lack of facilities for getting the material on to the ground. Flax-mill and Sawmill Workers' Accommodation. Following upon the passing of the Shearers' and Agricultural Labourers' Accommodation Amendment Act, 1912, and the gazetting of the regulations thereunder in June, 1913, a considerable amount of attention has been given to an inspection of the accommodation provided at flax-mills and sawmills, and an Inspector from Wellington has devoted his attention to the flax-mills in the Manawatu district. A comprehensive report as to the inspections made in the various districts of the Dominion is published on page 85. In regard to ambulance outfits, it was found that a large number of the millowners had not made any provision. Steps were then taken by the Department by which suitable outfits have been made up in accordance with the requirements of the regulations and approved by the District Health Officer, and these outfits have been supplied to millers at wholesale rates. It is pleasing to state that most of the employers called upon to do so have readily complied with the requisitions served upon them for the improvement of the accommodation provided for their workers. In a few instances where there were special circumstances warranting such concession, such as where flax was nearly cut out, or where the lease of cutting-rights had nearly expired, it has been necessary to give permission for the use of temporary accommodation. At a number of the mills where notices were served for improvements to be effected it has been found necessary to allow an extension of time within which to comply. It is a pleasure to report that a number of employers of flax-mill workers had prior to the receipt of requisitions under the Act already taken steps to provide improved accommodation for their workers, and some of these employers state that the extra expenditure incurred in that behalf has been more than compensated for by the fact that they have been enabled to secure a better class of workers. Photographic examples of some of the accommodation now provided accompany the report. In one case the men's quarters are provided in three bungalows, each containing six bedrooms and a large sitting-room, the latter furnished with fire-

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Living-accommodation provided for Flax-mill Workers, Manawatu District (Whitanui Flax-milling Company).

Typical Bedroom, provided for Flax-mill Workers.

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Exhibit of Department of Labour, Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition, 1913-14.— Chart Section (see page 29).

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SHEARERS' AND AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS' ACCOMMODATION ACT.

Dining-room provided for Flax-mill Workers, Manawatu District (Whitanui Flax-mill ing Company).

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places, chairs, tables, cupboards, and ruberoid covering for the floor. Each bedroom contains two wire bedsteads with kapoc mattresses, pillows, bed-linen, wardrobe, &c. One room is set aside as. a hospital. The walls and ceilings are papered, linoleum covers the floor, and there is also provided a table, chairs, dressing-table, and wardrobe. Medical and first-aid appliances are kept in a cabinet. The sanitary arrangements are modern, comprising a lavatory at the rear of each building, in which are washbasins, urinal, and closet. Water is laid on, and the waste water is conducted to a large septic tank, whence the effluent drains through earthenware pipes to the Manawatu River. A fourth building is used as a dining-room and kitchen, fitted tip with the latest appliances for dealing with the culinary requirements of the large number of workers. The dining-room is well furnished with chairs, tables, table-linen, &c.; the walls are panelled and stained. This accommodation is quite equal to that at many hotels. Accommodation for Farm Labourers. Inspections have also been made in any cases where complaints had lieen lodged regarding the accommodation provided for these workers, and where the accommodation has been found to be unsatisfactory the usual steps have been taken —viz., by requisition on the owners —to have improvements effected. Legal Proceedings (Flax-mills and Sawmills). Three applications were made to the Court by the Inspectors for orders requiring accommodation to be provided in accordance with the Act. One against a flax-miller was dismissed. In this case, although the mill was situated about five miles from a township, evidence was given to the Court that several of the employees preferred to live in town, and that the other employees were satisfied with the accommodation provided at the mill. The Court therefore held that the accommodation provided was sufficient under the circumstances to meet the requirements of the Act, and made no order. THE WAGES PROTECTION AND CONTRACTORS' LIENS ACT. No important breaches of this Act have come under notice during the year. As the Act comprises a consolidation (effected in 1908) of several smaller Acts—viz., Truck 1891, Contractors' and Workmen's Lien, 1892, Workmen's Wages, 1893, Threshing-machine Owners' Lien, 1895, Wages Attachment, 1895, and Wages Protection, 1899—more or less related to one another and in some respects overlapping one another, a revision of the same is under preparation by the Crown Law Officers. SERVANTS' REGISTRY OFFICES ACT. The following list shows the number of licensed registry offices in each of the principal towns of the Dominion :— Auckland .. .. .. 23 Masterton .. .. .. 3 Wellington .. •. .. .. 12 Nelson .. .. .. Nil Christchurch ..16 Greymouth .. .. ..1 Dunedin . ."* ..13 Timaru .. .. ..3 Gisborne .. .. ..3 Oamaru .. .. ..3 Napier .. .. 1 Invercargill .. .. .. 7 New Plymouth .... 1 — Wanganui .. .. 3 Total .. .. 97 Palmerston North .. .. 8 During the year the scale of fees payable by employers and servants to registry-office keepers for engagements made under the Act was again revised. The scale gazetted in March, 1913, had effected certain reductions in the fees chargeable to servants, as it had been ascertained that while the servants had in general practice been, charged by the registry-office keepers the full fees prescribed in the existing scale for servants, the employers had been charged considerably less than half of those fixed for employers, amounting to only about two-thirds of those paid by servants. After the gazetting of the March, 1913. scale complaints were, however, made by registry-office keepers that it was impossible for several reasons to collect the full fees from employers (owing to competition, to the fact that employers could obtain servants more cheaply by advertisement, and so on). A new scale was then gazetted (on the 30th January, 1914) slightly

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raising the fees chargeable to servants in the higher grades. The following is the scale of fees now in force : — ,-, „ , Fees payable by tor every engagement actually made,— Servant, Employer. Single engagements — s. d. b. d. Where weekly rate of wages does not exceed ss. (and board and lodging) 10 2 0 Where weekly rate of wages exceeds ss. but does not exceed 10s. (and board and lodging) .. .. .. .. .. ..10 20 Where weekly rate of wages exceeds 10s. but does not exceed 15s. (and board and lodging) .. .. .. .. .. ..20 40 Where weekly rate of wages exceeds 15s. but does not exceed £1 (and board and lodging) .. .. .. .. .. ..26 50 Where weekly rate of wages exceeds £1 hut does not exceed £2 (and board and lodging) .. .. .. .. .. ..30 60 Where weekly rate of wages exceeds £2 (and board and lodging) .. 3 6 7 0 Married couples — Where weekly rate of wages does not exceed £1 (and board and lodging) 3 0 6 0 Where weekly rate of wages exceeds £1 but does not exceed £2 (and board and lodging) .. .. .. .. .. ..36 70 Where weekly rate of wages exceeds £2 (and board and lodging) ..40 80 In the case of country engagements, meaning thereby those which are for places situate more than three miles from the license-holder's office, the following additional fees shall be payable : — Single engagements— Where the weekly rate does not exceed 10s. (and board and lodging) 0 6 10 Where the weekly rate of wages exceeds 10s. (and board and lodging) 10 2 0 Married couples— In every case .. .. .. .. .. ..16 30 Prosecutions. There were three prosecutions under the Act during the year —viz., one for failing to keep a book of engagements, and two for charging more than the prescribed fees. Suggested Amendments to Act. This Act has been in operation unaltered by amendment since it was passed in 1895, and experience has shown that in the interests of all parties a revision of the same is desirable. Complaints are, for example, made to the Department that servants have been engaged through registry-office keepers for employment even at a distance when no such work exists. In some instances this has, it is suggested, been caused through advertisements for workers not having been withdrawn when the positions mentioned have been filled; in other cases, after engagements are completed, disputes sometimes arise as to the precise nature of the engagements. It is suggested that it would aid the parties concerned in the settlement of such disputes if it were made compulsory for the registry-office keepers, before engaging servants, to set out the particulars of the positions in writing on a prescribed form, the forms to be signed by the workers on the one hand and by the registry-office keepers and, where possible, the employers on the other; and further, if some provision were made under which action could be taken for failure by any party to comply with the agreement thus entered into by him. LICENSING AMENDMENT ACT, 1910, AND BARMAIDS REGISTRATION ACT, 1912. By the latter Act the time within which applications for the registration of barmaids could be received was extended by one year (to Ist June, 1913). 316 additional applications for registration were received ; in each case the usual careful inquiries were made to ascertain whether the applicant had been employed as a barmaid for the period required by the Licensing Amendment Act (three months during the year ending 21st November, 1910). Of these applicants, 197 were registered and 119 were refused registration. The total number of applications for registration under both Acts was 1,518, and the total number of barmaids registered was 1,269. WORKERS' DWELLINGS. This subject is fully dealt with, as required by the Workers' Dwellings Act, in a separate statement for presentation to Parliament. In order that this report upon the operations of the Department may be complete, the Workers' Dwellings Report will be attached hereto as an appendix (B).

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THE "SEDGWICK BOYS." At the close of last year only twenty-nine of the fifty boys brought to New Zealand by Mr. T. E. Sedgwick, of London, were under the control of the Department, ten having attained their majority, one having died, and the remaining ten having "cleared out." In terms of the agreement made between Mr. Sedgwick, the Department, and the boys the whole of the boys became free of the Department's control at the end of January last. Steps were taken to balance the lads' accounts and to pay over to them the amounts placed to their credit; at the close of the year (31st March) the accounts had either been closed or were in progress of settlement. In one instance settlement has been delayed on account of misbehaviour of the boy and of a feeling of distrust on the part of the Department that the earnings of the boy (some £30-odd) might lie wasted. The earnings banked on behalf of the lads during the three years' term totalled £2,462. r lhe following list shows the amounts handed over to the boys at the age of twenty-one years or at the termination of the agreements :— Earnings hanked to Credit of Boys. 2 boys .. .. .. .. .. Over £100 each. 5 „ . . .. .. .. . . Between £80 and £100 each. 13 „ .. .. .. .. .. £60 „ £80 9 „ „ £40 „ £60 „ 21 „ .. .. .. .. .. ~ £40 „ under „ The actual earnings were a great deal larger, as, in addition to paying all expenses of transit from London to New Zealand, the majority of the boys also paid for necessary clothing, annual holiday, travelling-expenses between one job and another, Christmas presents and monetary gifts to relatives in England, &o. The boys also received, on an average, 2s. 6d. per week pocketmoney during the term served. Of the twenty-two boys who, being under eighteen years of age on arrival in New Zealand, served the full three years the total amount actually earned was £2,448 10s. 3d. (average, £111 6s.*). This includes clothing paid for by employers (average, £8 per year) and pocketmoney (£6 10s. per year). The following is a typical statement of the earnings and expenses of one of the boys :— Credits. r. B . d. a .-. d. Wages paid into Savings-bank .. .. .. 65 14 0 Interest .. .. .. .. .. ..260 Cash payment of pocket-money (average 2s. 6d. per week) 19 10 0 Clothing supplied by employer (approximately) .. .. 24 0 0 11l 10 0 Debits. Fare to New Zealand (includes railway fares to position in New Zealand) .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Christmas-box to parents in England, 1911 .. .. 2 0 6 Horse and trappings .. .. .. 14 0 0 Holiday (two weeks) .. .. .. ..500 Watch .. .. .. .. .. .. 0 15 0 Transfer expenses to new position .. .. .. 19 6 Christmas box to parents, 1912 .. .. .. 309 Sundries .. .. .. .. .. .. 010 6 36 16 3 Credit balance .. .. .. .. .. £74 13 9 In last year's report the forty-nine boys were classified into three groups : (a) Thirty-five who made good progress and gave the Department no trouble; (b) five whose conduct had not been entirely satisfactory, but who, is was expected, would improve; and (c) nine whose conduct was so unsatisfactory that it was unlikely they would prove successful. The twenty-nine boys who were in the Department's care during the past year were almost all in the first group; one of the boys showed a tendency to change his employment rather frequently, and finally took service as a driver in a town without first having obtained the Department's consent; he has, however, since returned to farm employment. During a visit to the Dominion in December last Mr. Sedgwick made a close study of the experiment from the files of the Department and by means of personal visits to several of the farmers and boys concerned. Before leaving New Zealand Mr. Sedgwdck expressed his appreciation of the work done by the Department.

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The training which the lads have received will fit them for practically any rural employment, and they should therefore in future years become most useful members of the Dominion's community. WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT BRANCHES. The number of domestic servants and women workers (generally) assisted to employment by these branches totals 2,163, as against 2,072 assisted during the previous year. The total persons assisted in each of the centres are as follow : — Married. *<£• aud Total. Widows. Wellington ~ .. .. .. ..251 517 768 Auckland .. .. .. .. ..63 595 658 Christchurch .. .. .. .. ..72 252 324 Dunedin .. .. .. 40 215 255 Masterton .. .. .. .. ..4 II 15 Nelson .. .. .. .. ..63 80 143 Totals .. .. .. ..493 1,670 2,163 Of the total assisted (2,163), 268 came from Groat Britain, 33 from the Commonwealth, and the remainder from within the Dominion itself. Extracts from the reports of the officers in charge of these branches are quoted on page 40 of this report. It will be noted that the demand for " generals "is growing more insistent each year; that wages are higher, with an increasing tendency (ranging from £1 to £1 ss. per week); and that servants are even more scarce than during last year. On the other hand, workers engaged in particular branches of housework — such as house-and-parlour-maids, waitresses, housekeepers, and cooks—have not been in short supply, and the demand for dayworkers does not appear to absorb all the labour offering; the majority of the latter are generally in poor circumstances, and assist by their earnings in the upkeep of homes where there are frequently delicate husbands and children to maintain. Arrangements are now in progress with a view- to the selection of workers for the hoppicking season in January of each year being undertaken by the Women's Branches at Nelson and Wellington. The following table shows the total number of workers assisted since the establishment of the branches in 1908 :— 1908 (ten months) ... ... ... ... 2,542 1909-10 ... ... ... ... ... 2.655 1910-11' ... ... ... ... ... 2,211 1911-12 ... ... ... ... ... 2,215 1912-13 ... ... ... ... ... 2,072 1913-14 ... ... ... ... 2,163 Total ... ... ... ... 13,891 DEPARTMENTAL PUBLICATIONS. The awards and decisions of the Arbitration Court under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, together with industrial agreements, have been published in the usual way throughout the year. The volume for the year 1913 (Vol. xiv), which is now nearly ready for distribution, is accompanied by a complete appendix of all accepted recommendations, industrial agreements, awards, interpretations, and important enforcements reported in Vols, i to xiv. A digest of the decisions and interpretations made during the year also accompanies the volume. A consolidated digest of all the decisions from the inception of the Act to date will be compiled this year and published with Vol. xv. The decisions given under the Workers' Compensation Act during the year are also being published, and the usual digest of same will be bound with the volume (Vol. xii); a consolidation of all the digests will also be prepared this year for publication with Vol. xiii next year. The publication of the monthly Journal of the Department has been continued (VoJ. xxi). The information furnished from time to time as to the state of trade and labour conditions throughout the Dominion appears to be very widely read and appreciated. PRICE STATISTICS. Consequent upon arrangements made with the Government Statistician, information will shortly be regularly published in the monthly Journal of the Department showing the average prices of the various commodities in the chief and several of the secondary towns of the Dominion.

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Exhibit of Department of Labour, Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition, 1913-14.-Workers' Dwellings Section.

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Model Shearers' Accommodation. Model Workers' Dwellings. Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition, 1 913—1 4. —Department's Court (Front View).

Exhibit of Department of Labour, Auckland Industrial and Minim; Exhibition, 1913-14. Photographs of Typical New Zealand Workrooms.

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These tables will be compiled by the Government Statistician from information collected, from representative traders, by officers of the Department. A good deal of information relating to prices during the years 1891 to 191-'! has also been collected from the four chief centres of the Dominion (by an officer of the Department on behalf of the Government Statistician). The tables and graphs to be published will show the movements from time to time of prices of rents, groceries, meat, milk, bread, fruit, agricultural produce, coal, light, timber, and other staple commodities in general use by the community. EXHIBIT OF DEPARTMENT AT THE AUCKLAND EXHIBITION. (December, 1913, to April, 1914.) A small exhibit was made by the Department at the above Exhibition. The exhibit consisted of two models and a number of photographs of workers' dwellings; graphs and diagrams relating to strikes (in New Zealand) from 1896 to 1913; cost of living (three charts); wages and hours of labour in Wellington building trades, 1912 (compared with certain British cities); changes in the level of food-prices (United Kingdom, United Stales of America, Canada, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand); membership of industrial unions in New Zealand; number of persons sent to employment; rents in four chief cities of New Zealand; factory employees, proportion of each sex employed, 1896 to 1913; increase in number of factories from year to year, and the number of employees engaged therein; average duration of employment and average weekly earnings of employees (male and female) in the chief industries in New Zealand (this chart showed all the fluctuations of employment from month to month during the year dealt with). Several of these graphs and charts are reproduced in this report. Photographs of the interior of several typical New Zealand factories were also displayed. STAFF CHANCES. On the 31st December last Mr. John Lomas, Secretary of Labour, &c, retired from the service on superannuation following upon three months' leave of absence, and 1 was appointed to the offices vacated by that gentleman- —namely, Secretary of Labour. Registrar of Industrial Unions, and Superintendent of Workers' Dwellings—continuing also in the position of Chief Inspector of Factories, to which 1 had been appointed in October. For nearly twenty-three years —in fact, during the whole period of the Department's history —Mr. Lomas had been connected with the Department, and it is recognized that in his several capacities he rendered valuable service to the Dominion. Joining as a clerk in November, 1891, some three months after the Department's institution, Mr. Lomas was some fifteen months later appointed to the position of Inspector of Factories (Officer in Charge) at Christchurch, where he was stationed until April, 1905. He was then transferred to a similar position in Dunedin. Two years later, in February, 1907, he was appointed Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, and on the death of Mr. James Mackay in the following September he was appointed Chief Inspector of Factories, Deputy Registrar of Industrial Unions, and Chief Advisory Officer under the Workers' Dwellings Act. On the retirement of Mr. Edward Tregear, in February, 1911, Mr. Lomas was appointed to the positions of Secretary of Labour. &c, which he held until his retirement. Upon my appointment as Chief Inspector of Factories, Mr. W. H. Hagger, formerly Officer in Charge at the Christchurch office, was appointed Deputy Chief Inspector, and on .my appointment as Secretary of Labour and Registrar of Industrial Unions, Mr. J. W. Collins was appointed Chief Clerk and Deputy Registrar of Industrial Unions. It is with regret that I have to record the deaths of two valued officers —Messrs. D. Carmody, Officer in Charge of the Christchurch office, and W. Hood, late Inspector of factories at the Auckland office. Mr. Carmody had proved himself a very capable and tactful officer, and his demise shortly following well-earned promotion was very much regretted. Mr. Hood, who had left the service of the Department during the year owing to failing health, had always been a \er\ zealous and painstaking officer, and his loss to the Department was also very much regretted.

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EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORTS OF INSPECTORS OF FACTORIES AND AWARDS AND AGENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR.

Auckland. The Officer in Charge (Mr. W. Newton) reports : — General. —The year covered by this report has been an exceedingly eventful one. The strike of waterside workers in Wellington resulted in a number of sympathetic strikes in Auckland of about seven thousand men in various trades. These strikes lasted about two months. The building and allied trades have been \tjix steady, and tradesmen have been kept fairly well employed in all branches except painting. A number of large business premises have been erected, but the number of residences built has not perhaps been as great as in some previous years. In the clothing trades business has again been very good, although there has not been such an insistent cry about the dearth of female labour as was the ease in former years. 'I he reason given is that more importation is taking place, especially in respect to shirts ami men's readymade suits. Factories Act. —The provisions of this Act have been very well observed. The drainage system which is now nearing completion will undoubtedly improve the sanitary conditions of the workrooms in factories. The ventilation in workrooms is also receiving constant attention from Inspectors. A number of new factory premises have been erected, which are greatly in advance of those previously occupied as regards light, ventilation, air-space, &C. There were very few occasions where it was found necessary to prosecute, only six eases being taken during the year. Shops and Offices Act. —Every attention has been paid to see that the provisions of the Act have been observed, particularly in connection with the rates of wages paid, ventilation, sanitary and seating accommodation. These have been fairly well observed. The provisions of the Act relating to the keeping of time and waves hooks have, on the whole, been satisfactory, although it has been found necessary to prosecute, a number of occupiers for failure in this respect. The change of the statutory closing-day from Wednesday to Saturday in June, 1913, by a poll of the electors disorganized matters for a time, and some shopkeepers suffered loss of trade thereby, but the complaints on that account are now reduced to a minimum. Great difficulty is experienced in carrying out the law relating to the closing of shops by " requisition " of the majority of the shopkeepers engaged in the respective trades. I refer to those shops which stock as a side line a commodity which if carried as a principal stock would necessitate closing in accordance with the " requisition." For instance, one requisition provides that tobacconists must close at the hour specified therein, but other traders, such as grocers, who sell tobacco as a side line may remain open, although they may not sell tobacco after the hour fixed by the requisition. There are numerous complaints that sales are being effected after hours, but it is impossible to obtain a conviction except where a sale is proved, which is difficult. Opinions are fairly unanimous amongst tradesmen who employ labour that it would be better if all shops were compelled to close not later than (i p.m. on four evenings of the week. Some firms have recently decided to close at 5.30 p.m. on four evenings during winter months and 12.30 p.m. on the statutory closing-day. The Shops and Offices Amendment Act, 1913, reducing the hours of boys and women employed in hotels from fifty-eight to fifty-six, is now generally well observed It has been found necessary to take a total of seventy-nine eases for breaches of the provisions of this Act. A majority of these were in connection with employing assistants after hours. I nil ust rial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. —The provisions of the Act and the awards and industrial agreements made under same continue to be generally well observed, most of the offences discovered being due to inadvertence. During the year 420 complaints were inquired into in respect to breaches of awards or industrial agreements. The largest number under any one award was in respect to hotel workers. Servants' Registry Offices Act. —There are now twenty-three licensed registry-offices in Auckland, an increase of nine on the previous year. The new scale of fees chargeable to servants ami employers which came into force on the 2nd March, 1914, proved much more workable than the previous one. and the Act is now working smoothly. Men's Employment Branch. —Employment has. on the whole, been good throughout the \ear. Work has for the most part been fairly plentiful, and at no period of the year can it be said that acute unemployment existed. At various periods it has been impossible to supply sufficient men to fill applications for farm workers, milkers, &c. Altogether 858 persons were sent to work. Wellington. The Acting Inspector in Charge (Mr. R. T. Bailey) reports: — General. —The conditions of trade and employment have been fairly satisfactory. The building trades have maintained a steady progress throughout the year. In the woodworking trades,

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cabinetmaking has maintained a normal position, but there has been a decided tendency for trade to fluctuate. Sash and door factories and local sawmills have been active. The engineering trade appears to have lieen slack. The cycle and motor trades have reported good business. The tailoring trade has, on the whole, hail a satisfactory year, but the permits for overtime were not exhausted, as has been the: case hitherto, and there has not been the demand for female labour as in previous years. The woollen-mills and dressmaking ami millinery workrooms have had a good year. The boot industry has not been so buoyant, and at times the factories were very slack. The output of the meat-freezing industry and allied trades in and around Wellington has been very satisfactory. Factories Act. —Little trouble is now caused in the administration of this Act. 'I here are several premises which year by year are becoming totally inadequate and unsuitable for the purposes for which they are used, ami the question of refusing to renew the registration of same under the Act will have to be carefully considered. The number of accidents reported during 'he year was I 12. none of which proved fatal. and the majority of the injuries were of a minor nature. Shops anil Offices Act. The administration of this Act has necessitated many eases being brought before the Court. The principal eases were for failing to close under the various requisitions (from the majority of the shopkeepers in the respective trades fixing closing-hours), and in every instance judgment was given in the Department's favour. In my opinion provision for dining-room accommodation for shop assistants should be made similar to that for factory workers. The total overtime worked during the year was 10,986 hours, by 1.479 women and boys. Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. —The administration of this Act and of the awards and industrial agreements made thereunder has this year been very difficult, due no doubt to the strike of waterside workers, drivers, and others. The total number of complaints received during the year was 355, out of which forty-four prosecutions arose. Sixty-nine were on inquiry found to be unsubstantiated, while the remainder were settled by the payment of arrears of wages. Workers' Compensation Art. The 1913 amendment to the Act repealing section 10 of the 1910 Act has removed a certain amount of responsibility from the Inspectors, in that their approval of the settlement oi claims I'm- compensatior !■• not now necessary. Nevertheless Borne insurance companies have intimated thai they are prepared to accept the advice of the Department's officers, and thus obviate the necessity of additional expense to the workers in obtaining independent advice. ChRISTCHUHCH. The Acting Officer in Charge (Mr. A. Donald.) reports : — General. —Considering the recent industrial upheaval which took place in November and Decemlxu- last, the year under review has been good from a trade standpoint, and since the strike ended business has "gone ahead" at a remarkable pace, and compares favourably with the corresponding period in former years. The building trade has, for the greater part of the year, been very good in all its branches. The engineering trade cannot be said to have experienced a good year. The clothing and millinery trades, not being seriously affected by the strike. have been exceptionally busy throughout the year. Labour in these particular trades has at times been very scarce. Factories Act. —The administration of this Act has. on the whole, not been very difficult. as the requirements have l>een very well observed by employers. The sanitary conditions and provisions against fire have been particularly satisfactory, and there is a growing tendency to more completely observe the law in these directions. During the year it was found necessary to take proceedings under this Act in seven cases only, which number shows a substantial decrease on previous years. The number of accidents in factories shows a considerable increase on last year, but. as in previous years, a veryflarge majority of these were slight; almost the whole of the accidents wore caused by the carelessness or overconlidence of the workers, and not through the want of guards and other protection. Shops ami Offices Act. —There is a general endeavour on the part of shopkeepers to observe the law, and it was found necessary to take action against shopkeepers in only thirty eases. Judgment was given for the Department in every instance. Iml ust rial Conciliation anil Arbitration Act. —During the year tin number of complaints under this Act and under the current awards and industrial agreements (amounting to 320) showed no diminution, but as a large majority of them were trivial and unintentional it was found necessary to take action in only twenty-nine cases against employers and four eases against employers. Workers' Compensation Act. —Although tin; Inspectors of the Department have by the coming into force of the Workers' Compensation Amendment Act id' 1913 been relieved of the responsibility of approving the proposed settlements of claims for compensation, workers still avail themselves of the opportunity of seeking advice from the Department. Servants' Registry Offices Act. —During the year care has been taken to see that the provisions of this Act have been properly carried out. Shearers' ami Agricultural labourers' Accommodation Art. 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Men's Employment Branch. —ln this branch a busy year has been experienced. Last winter, which was predicted to be a serious one for the unemployed, was successfully negotiated owing to the Department's having a standing order for men to be employed on the public works at Cass and Otira, and later on for men at Lake Coleridge. Dunedin. The Officer in Charge (Mr. L. D. Browett) reports: — General. —The building trade, which is usually a good criterion of the condition of trade generally, has not been so busy as during the previous year, and at various periods numbers of carpenters have been reported as idle. The iron trades were, as a whole, quiet; there were, however, occasional busy periods. Woollen-milling has been very busy throughout the year, and apparently not seriously affected by the strike of waterside workers and others. Clothingmanufacturing has been satisfactory, though not as brisk as during the foregoing year, when orders for military uniforms were being executed. Boot and shoe manufacturing has been quieter than during the previous year, and employment in some factories less constant. Trade has, however, considerably improved lately, and is now fairly brisk. Factories Act. —This Act has been well observed. There have, of course, been some irregulariiies. but most of them were capable of adjustment without recourse to the Court. Six prosecutions were undertaken, in all of which convictions and penalties were obtained. Compared with the previous years there is a slight decrease in the number of registered factories, and also a decrease of about two hundred in the number of females employed; the latter decrease is probably due to a temporary slackness at the time of the registration in some of the industries in which females are principally employed. Less overtime was worked than during the preceding year. This decrease may to some extent be attributed to the strike, as in previous years overtime has been general in the clothing and other trades from October to December. The number of accidents reported and inquired into was 163, one of which resulted fatally (due to a fall from a ladder). Shops and Offices Act. —This Act has worked well, and there has been comparatively little friction in its administration. Thirty-five breaches of the Act were, however, discovered; fifteen prosecutions were taken, out of which one charge was dismissed. The greatest difficulty that Inspectors have to contend with in administering this Act is in regard to the hours worked by carters. Being shop-assistants within the meaning of the Act they are not allowed to work more than one night per week after 6 p.m., but as the employer has the right to say which night shall be the late night it means that the Inspector must see the carter being employed after hours on at least two of the six nights of the week before he can interfere. Carters are difficult to detect, and after having been warned once the difficulty of detecting them again in the same week is greater. This trouble would be removed if the Act provided that the late night for all assistants should be the night on which the shop is kept open late for trade. Industrial Conciliation ami Arbitration Art. —The number of alleged breaches of awards and industrial agreements reported to this office during the year was 319—a decrease on last year's returns. Thorough investigation was made into each complaint received, besides which inquiries were made by Inspectors in the ordinary course of inspection at a large number of places of which no complaint had been received. In all some 151 breaches were found to have existed. Applications for enforcements were made in thirty-three cases, in twenty-six of which penalties and costs were imposed. Five charges were dismissed: in one the Department was nonsuited, and one was withdrawn. Servants' Registry Offices Act. —There are thirteen licensed registry-offices in this district. These ofliees all appear to be in good hands, as they give little cause for complaint. Shearers' and Agricultural Labourers' Accommodation Act. —There are very few sheepstations in the immediately surrounding district, but on account of complaints received Inspectors from this office"visited seven stations in various parts of the Otago Central District. These stations are separated by very long distances, and in some instances were difficult of access. With two exceptions the complaints mentioned were groundless. In the other two, notices were served on the occupiers to provide accommodation in accordance with the provisions of the Act. Men's Em ploy me nt Branch. —The great majority of those making application for employment and obtaining it through this office were unskilled labourers, although a fair number of men were engaged for farm-work. 0 IS BORNE. The Inspector (Mr. W. H. Westbrooke) reports: — General. —The year has lieen one of prosperity, and the wage-earner generally has received constant employment, in some instances at a higher rate of pay than during last year. The recent strike, which had such disastrous effects on trade in other centres of the Dominion, was only indirectly felt in Gisborne. All trades have been exceedingly active during the year, more especially the building trade, and at present there appear no signs of decreasing activity. Factories Act. —The factories have been well conducted, and it has been necessary to take only one case to Court. There were ninety accidents reported during the year. All of these, with one exception, were slight. The practice of using a running shaft as a hoist is a fruitful source of accidents and one difficult of detection. I think the practice should be made illegal under the Act.

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Shops and Offices Act. —The shops are well conducted. A careful inspection of shops selling food was recently made in company with the borough Sanitary Inspector, and in a number of eases improvements were effected. It was found necessary to take action against only one occupier for a breach of the Act. Three "requisitions" signed by a majority of the shopkeepers concerned in the respective trades have been gazetted fixing the closing-hours of shops in the trades. 1 am of the opinion that the Act needs amending on the lines of the 1913 Bill, so that if the shopkeepers in any particular line of business decide to close their shops at a certain hour the specified g Is shall not be sold by any other shopkeeper after that hour. Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. —lhe working of the Act in connection with the various awards and agreements operating in the district has been attended with very little friction. The great demand for labour has had the effect of keeping the standard wage in most cases above the minimum fixed by the Court, consequently no charge of having paid less than the minimum wage has occurred this year. Over fifty alleged breaches of awards have been investigated. Many of these related to the various preference clauses. Three such cases were taken to Court. Shearers' and Agricultural Labourers' Accommodation Act. —I visited eleven sheep static* s during the year. At eight of these I found that improvements which had been required by last year's notices had been'carried out, and in three cases I left notices requiring either improvements or new accommodation. A special inspection of shearers' accommodation at those stations in the far-outlying districts was made by another Inspector, district. Servants Registry Offices Act. —There are now only three servants' registry-offices in this Men's Employment Branch. —During the year 446 persons have made application for work, and of this number 164 have been found employment, principally at labouring-work. During the year there has been no hardship felt through lack of employment. Although occasionally men have called at the office •' second time, work was undoubtedly available in the country. Napier. The Inspector (Mr. J. Jackson) reports: — General. —This district has experienced a prosperous year. The seasons have been good for sheep-farming, dairying, and the fruitgrowing industries, while the frozen-meat trade is rapidly expanding. The building and allied trades, too. have hern very active. Factories Act. —Visits of inspection have been made to all factories. The various laws have been well observed by occupiers, it havin<_' been necessary to take only one case before t hi' Court. Forty-five accidents in factories were reported during the year, but only three of these were serious. Shops and Offices Act. —All shops and licensed hotels have been inspected, and the administration of the Act has been fairly free from friction, there having been but one prosecution. A number of minor breaches were discovered. Verbal warning followed by a written communication is generally sufficient to ensure compliance with the Act. Indus'rial Conciliation ami Arbitration Act. —The administration of the Act, the awards of the Court, and industrial agreements has been carried out with a minimum amount of friction. Whilst the rest of the Dominion was last November involved in strikes Hawke's Bay remained undisturbed. One important case, under the lockout provisions of the Act, was taken against a sheep-farmer for discharging shearers who had refused to shear "wet" sheep. The Magistrate inflicted a penalty of £25. The defendant appealed to the Court of Arbitration, and though the appeal was allowed on the ground that sheep "wet" by perspiration were not "wet sheep " wjthin the meaning of clause 13 of the award no costs were given against the Department. In another case arisinjr out of the foregoing dispute the same sheep-farmer was required to pay back wages to shearers amounting to .£26 13s. 4d. Shearers' and Agricultural Labourers' Accommodation Act. —As a result of a complete inspection of the shearing-sheds it was found that all sheep-farmers who had previously been notified to provide adequate accommodation had complied with the notices served on them. Men's Employment Branch. —Work for unskilled labour has been fairly plentiful throughout the year, and seventy-eight applicants were assisted to employment. New Plymouth. The Inspector (Mr. W. Slaughter) reports : — General. —The year just closed may be considered as generally satisfactory. The dairying industry is in a prosperous state, and good prices for butter and cheese have been maintained. The manufacture of cheese is increasing, while a number of factories have installed machinery for the extraction of casein. The meat freezing and preserving industry has had a very busy season, and owing to the increased quantity of stock coming forward the works at Waitara are to be increased to double their present capacity. It is expected that the new portion will be ready for occupation by the opening of the next season. The petroleum industry is considered to have made satisfactory progress during the year. and has given employment to about 120 men. A large refinery has been erected and some 277,000 <rallons of crude oil have been treated.

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Factories Act. —Very little difficulty has been experienced in the administration of the Act; employers and workers alike show a commendable desire to comply with the same. There have been but three prosecutions under the Act, conviction being recorded in each case. The number of accidents reported was fifteen—none of a very serious nature. Shops and Offices Act. —The administration of this Act calls for no special comment. Its various provisions are generally well observed. During the year ten informations were laid for breaches of the Act. Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. —The work in connection with the administration of this Act and the awards made thereunder has increased considerably. Thirty-five complaints of breaches were received. Twenty-three of these were found on inquiry to be either unfounded or of such a nature that the Department was able to adjust matters without taking action. Ten cases were taken before the Court, and a penalty was inflicted in each case. Men's Employ/in nt Branch. —The work in this branch of the Department shows a considerable increase over the previous year. A large number of youths could have been placed at the commencement of the milking season had they been available, but although wages ranging from 15s. to £1 10s. per week and found were offering, the majority of applicants preferred to stay in the town. Wanganui. The Inspector (Mr. H. Moston) reports : — General. —The year under review has been prosperous from both the workers' and the employers' point of view. The effects of the industrial troubles during the latter part of 1913 were not so apparent here as in other parts of the Dominion. The dairying industry (despite the check received early in the season owing to the strike) has on the whole had one of the most successful seasons experienced for some years. The meatfreezing industry, although retarded somewhat by the late and protracted shearing, has been very satisfactory throughout the season. The quantities of stock treated up to the end of March show an increase in all classes as compared with last season. The building trades have been very busy throughout the year. AH classes of skilled men in these trades have been well employed. T have again to call attention to the difficulty which exists in getting apprentices for the skilled trades. In every trade ("with the exception of the motor-engineering trade) there is a dearth of apprentices. If a high standard of efficiency is to be maintained in our trades it would appear that some inducement will have to be offered to boys to take up the trades. Factories Art. —Little or no difficulty has been experienced in the administration of this Act. it having been found necessary to prosecute only three employers for breaches. Tn each case a conviction was recorded and a penalty imposed. Thirty accidents were reported during the year: the most serious occurred in the case of an employee who fell down the well-hole of a lift a distance of 30 ft.. fracturing his leg in two places and sustaining severe internal injuries. Shops and Offices Act. —All the shops in this district have been visited, and the Act generally has been well observed. Five employers were prosecuted for breaches of this Act; in all cases convictions were recorded. Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. —lo7 complaints of breaches of awards were received and investigated. In fourteen cases applications were made for penalties for breaches of the awards. One case was withdrawn, and convictions were obtained in the others. Men's Employment Branch. —Throughout the year there has been very little difficulty in finding employment for those calling at the office in search of it Skilled men in all trades were invariably readily placed. Palmerston North. The Inspector (Mr. W. J. Culver) reports : — General. —A dislocation of business was threatened as a result of the strikes, but happily Palmerston North suffered little or nothing by the disputes. The busiest outside trade was the building trade, while of the factory trades the most active were those of tailoring, dressmaking, and printing. Owing to the low prices ruling for fibre, the exceptionally- wet season, and a scarcity of green leaf the flax-mills in the district have not been working to their full capacity. Factories Act. —All the factories within the Borough of Palmerston North have been visited during the year, and all were found to be in a satisfactory condition as regards sanitary and other requirements. Forty accidents occurred, none of which was of a serious character. The Department's assistance in the settlement of claims for compensation was invited in eight cases, and claims amounting to £383 9s. Bd. were settled as approved. Shops and Offices Act. —Both shops and hotels have been very satisfactorily conducted, in that there has been no complaint as to non-compliance with the requirements of the Act. Seatingaccommodation for female assistants is now provided in all shops where they are employed, and has been availed of by employees generally. I would again draw attention to the anomaly existing between the Factories Act and the Shops and Offices Act in regard to the employment of young persons under sixteen rears of age. Under the Factories Act no such young person may work in a factory except under a special permit issued by the Inspector, who, except in exceptional circumstances, must he satisfied that the applicant has passed the Fourth Standard, and is not less than fourteen years of age. 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Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. —For breaches of awards thirty-seven cases were taken, and in each case a penalty was imposed. Servants' Registry Offices Act. —There are eight servants' registry-offices, and generally the businesses are well conducted. On several occasions, however, men have been sent to employment only to find the vacancies filled. Often these men, being a long way from home, have not troubled to ask for a refund of the fee paid by them, or where they did claim the refund they were told by the registry-office keeper that he was " simply an agent of the employer " and the only recourse for redress was to the employer direct. Masterton. The Inspector (Mr. J. C. Yorke) reports: — Central. —The season for meat freezing, preserving, canning, <tc, has again proved to be a record one, the quantity of stock which came forward having rendered enlarged premises necessary. The building trade has been fairly prosperous throughout the year, although the strike gave it a decided check, causing a shortage of work for carpenters and joiners for two or three months. The sawmilling industry has been fairly active, although every year that passes makes it necessary to seek the raw material farther away from the centre of population. There is a large number of butter and other boxes made here, for which a great quantity of white-pine is hauled in from a distance of about twenty miles. During the past season shearing was interfered with to an unusual extent, mostly by very bad weather. Dairying is one of the most important industries in the Wairarapa district, and the past year has been an ideal one from the dairyman's point of view. The output of butter and cheese has been a record one, and the prices obtained have been high. For the retail trades the past year, it is generally reported, has been one of prosperity. Factories Act. —This Act continues to work smoothly, and it has not been found necessary to take any prosecutions under it during the past twelve months. Ten accidents were reported, and, although several of them were of a serious nature, none proved fatal. Shops and Offices Act. —Two prosecutions were taken under this Act. Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. —The necessary inspections and investigations in connection with this Act and the different awards in force have been carried on continuously. Five cases for enforcement of awards were taken in the Magistrates' Court; conviction was obtained in each case. Servants' Registry Offices Act. —There are three licensed registry-offices in this district. Several complaints were received from workers with regard to the keepers of these offices failing to withdraw advertisements from the daily papers when the situations offered were filled, thus causing expense and loss of time to those seeking places. Men's Employment Branch. —There has not been serious cause for complaint during the past year on account of slackness of work. Nelson. The Inspector (Mr. S. Tysou) reports :— General. —Labour-conditions have continued satisfactory. Notwithstanding the strike of waterside workers which took place in November last, trade and business throughout the district have been fairly good, and show a marked improvement on last year. There was no dearth of employment during tltfe year. Fruit-preserving, one of the most important industries in the district, continues to expand. Several new factories have been erected during the year, whilst factories which were in existence have extended their operations and increased their plants. The great difficulty of obtaining suitable labour seriously affects this industry. The local freezing-works has had a very prosperous season. A considerable number of buildings has been erected in both the city and country districts, and "all classes of building tradesmen have been well employed. Factories Visits of inspection were paid to the factories throughout the district. Generally speaking, workrooms and sanitary conveniences have been much improved, and are now very satisfactory. There are still, however, a few old buildings which in the course of time will have to be condemned to give place to new and better structures. Six accidents were reported, but none was of a very serious nature. Inquiry was made into the cause of accident in all cases. Shops and Offices Act. —Visits of inspection have been paid to all shops in the district. A considerable improvement has taken place with regard to sitting-accommodation provided for female assistants In some of the larger establishments provision is also being made for installing heating appliances during the winter months. Five cases were taken under this Act, and convictions were obtained in four instances. Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. —The work entailed under this Act has considerably increased during the year. As a rule, employers and employees have made themselves conversant with the provisions contained in the awards affecting them. During the year forty complaints re breaches of awards were received; proceedings were taken against seven persons. Shearers' and Agricultural Labourers' Accommodation Act. —Visits of inspection were paid to nine out of a total of twelve sheds during the year, and the general conditions were found to be satisfactory. Visits of inspection were also paid to all sawmills and flax-mills throughout the district. In many instances the accommodation provided for workers was inadequate, and

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notices were sent out requesting employers to provide proper accommodation. On revisiting the mills it was found that the required alterations had been made. In the majority of cases the accommodation provided is now satisfactory. Mill's Employment Branch. — During the year there has been a fair demand for all classes of labour, and at times difficulty has been experienced in finding hands for farm-work and country sawmills. Greymouth. The Inspector (Mr. 11. .1. Torbit) reports:— General. —The period just ended may be regarded industrially as one of steady progress. In common with other portions of the Dominion the recent strike was severely felt here for a time. The sawmilling industry has had a busy year, and there is every indication that the volume of trade in this direction is likely to increase. Unfortunately, the recent, strike brought the industry to a complete standstill tor some considerable time. The same remarks apply equally to coal-mining; but with a settlement oi labour troubles, and the recent readjusting of industrial agreements ami awards, the future is full of promise. Steady progress continues to be made in both alluvial and quartz gold-mining, and a large demand exists for competent labour in both branches. Factories Act. — The provisions of this Act continue to be well observed throughout the district. The inspection of all factories has been complete, and the conditions under which workers an employed have been thoroughly investigated. With regard to sawmills ami other factories where machinery is used, there is -till room for improvement in the matter of guards and other safety appliances, but on the whole the managers of these places are usually willing to adopt any reasonable suggestion for the better protection of their employees. The number of accidents reported was sixteen, mostly of a minor nature. None was fatal. Due inquiry was made into each case. There were five cases taken before the Court for breaches of the Aci. In each instance a conviction was obtained. Other irregularities were mostly of a trivial nature, ami a warning letter sufficed. Shops anil Offices Act. —The provisions of this Act are now so w 7 ell understood that little difficulty is found in the administration of it. Eleven prosecutions for various offences under this Act were taken, and convictions were obtained in ten instances. Iml ust rial Conciliation ami Arbitration Act. —This Act may be regarded as having worked smoothly throughout this district during the period now ended. Eleven apparent breaches were investigated. In one instance it was considered necessary to prosecute. Other complaints received during the year were on investigation found to be groundless. Shearers' ami Agricultural Labourers' Accommodation Act. —By the provisions of the amending Act of 1912 sawmills and Sax-mills were brought within the scope of the Act. Visits have been paid to fourteen mills, the accommodation at which i* situated a mile or more from the nearest accommodation-house. In no instance was it found that the accommodation provided was in strict accordance with the new regulations, hut nevertheless I found that in the majority of cases the housing was of a comfortable nature. Requisitions have been duly served on the proprietors, and these Save been attended to, in the majority of instances with satisfactory results. TIMARU. The Inspector (Mr. C. U. Lightfoot) reports:— General. —This year has not been altogether free from industrial trouble, a strike of watersiders having occurred here. The building trades have shown a slight falling-off. The farming industry has experienced another fairly prosperous year. Factories Act. —During the year every factory on the register has been visited, and I have found them well equipped and conducted, and generally the occupiers appear to be observing the conditions of the Act very well indeed. Nine informations were laid in the Magistrates' Court under this Act, and a conviction was obtained in each instance. Ninety-seven accident's were reported, most of which were of a trivial nature. Shops and Offices Act. —The provisions of this Act are generally well observed. There were ten informations laid in the Stipendiary Magistrates' Court, and a conviction was obtained in each instance. Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. —All complaints of alleged breaches of awards were investigated, but many were found to be of a trivial nature or without foundation. Twentycases for enforcement of awards were filed in the Stipendiary Magistrates' Court, one of which was withdrawn. In four cases breaches were recorded without penalty, and in fifteen instances penalties were imposed. Servants' Registry Offices Act. —There are three offices registered under this Act. and they are well conducted. 0 AMARU. The Inspector (Mr. A. E. Waite) reports: — General. —A very successful year would appear to have been experienced on every hand, and business people are unanimous in describing the period as most satisfactory. The strike which took place towards the close of 1913 did not very materially affect this district. Factories Act. —The Act has been fairly well observed, and, while several minor breaches have been discovered, warnings have been considered sufficient in each case. It has not been deemed necessary to proceed against any occupiers during the year.

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The number of accidents reported was eight, two of which resulted fatally. The remaining six were moderately serious. Shops and Offices Act. —A visit of inspection has been made during the last six months to vxcrx shop in the district. While the Act was found to be receiving fair compliance in the majority of cases, several breaches were discovered, and nine prosecutions have been necessary. A conviction was secured in each instance. Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. —A number of new awards coming into operation within the past five or six months has somewhat increased the work in connection with this Act. It has not been considered necessary to proceed against any employers, as all the breaches committed have been the outcome either of ignorance of the law or of excusable doubt on the part of the offenders. Men's Employment Branch. —The very bright state of trade and employment conditions prevailing in Oamaru during the past twelve months has been responsible for the small number of applications for employment. All applicants were speedily suited. Invercargill. The Inspector-iu-charge (Mr. 11. B. Bower) reports: — General. —Agricultural and dairying operations were considerably interfered with by serious Hoods which inundated large areas of this district in the autumn and early winter of 1913. Fortunately, however, a fine spring and summer followed and the district made a good recovery. The strike, too, had a bad effect on most of the manufacturing industries. The building trades experienced some slackness during the winter and early spring, but became more active during the summer months, and are at present very busy. Sawmilling has been quiet, and the engineeringtrades have not been so busy as usual. The boot trade has been very quiet, but tailoring, dressmaking, and millinery have all maintained a fair standard of trade. Factories Act. —Breaches of this Act are less frequent as the parties concerned become more conversant with its provisions, and it was not found necessary to take any prosecutions during the year. There were seventeen accidents reported, none of which was serious. Shops and Offices Act. —This Act has worked very smoothly, and it has not been necessary to prosecute in any instance. The recent amendments providing for heating-appliances and specifying that seating-accommodation shall be provided for each female assistant in shops are being readily complied with by shopkeepers, and have caused much satisfaction to employees. Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. —Work under the Act continues to increase, and awards are now in operation covering almost every trade and industry carried on in the district. Inspection has been regularly carried out, and during the year a special visit was made to the goldfields where the dredges were at work. It was found that the provisions of the award were being carried out. Visits were also paid to sawmills and a number of shearingsheds; disputes were inquired into and errors rectified. Twelve persons were proceeded against during the year for breaches of the Act and awards; six of the prosecutions against members of a gold-dredge crew were taken under the strike provisions of the Act : in five cases fines were imposed, and the sixth was dismissed for want of proof of offence. The remaining prosecutions were for breaches of various awards. Servants' Registry Offices Act. —There are seven pet sons holding licenses under the Act in Invercargill, all of whom have complied with the Act. Men's Employment Branch.- —The number of men seeking employment was comparatively small, and more than half of them were assisted to employment almost immediately after making their applications. •i

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EXTRACTS FROM. REPORTS OF INSPECTORS OF SCAFFOLDING. mm Auckland. Mr. H. Gresham reports : — With the exception of a few weeks in November and December, 1913, the building trade has been active. The sum of over £360,000 has been expended in erection of buildings and improvements. Visits have been made to scaffolding on buildings in the following country districts: Whangarei, Cambridge, Hamilton, Rotorua, Morrinsville, Raglan, Ngaruawahia, Waiuku, and Pukekohe. During the period 364 notices have been received from builders and others of their intention to erect scaffolding exceeding 16 ft. high. The guarding of well-holes and openings in floors is a matter which required continual supervision. Forty-four accidents, mostly of a minor nature, have been reported. It was necessary to take proceedings against eleven contractors for failing to notify their intention to erect scaffolding. With the exception of one dismissal, a conviction was obtained and fine imposed in each case. Napier and Gisborne. Mr. J. Jackson reports : — The building trade has been active during the year, especially in the erection of large structures. Fifty-one notices of intention to erect scaffolding exceeding a height of 16 ft. were received from various parts of the district. Very few accidents have happened, and with the exception of one all were of a minor nature. New Plymouth. Mr. W. Slaughter reports: — The building trade has been brisk during the greater part of the year. Several large blocks in concrete buildings have been erected. Generally speaking, a decided improvement is shown in the construction of scaffolding owing to the requirements being more fully understood by employers and workers. Thirty-two notices of intention to erect scaffolding over 16 ft. in height were received and seventy-five visits of inspection were made. Two accidents have been reported, neither of which, however, actually occurred on scaffolds. In one case a carpenter who had been engaged in uncovering the well-hole for the purpose of erecting a staircase in the new Town Hall at Inglewood fell through to the stage below, a distance of 21 ft., and was killed. Wanganui. Mr. H. E. Moston reports : — Thirty-eight notices of intention to erect scaffolding over 16 ft. in height from the base have been received. In all eases inspections have been made while the buildings were in course of erection, and, where necessary, defects have been remedied. Three accidents were reported under this Act. One proved fatal; in this case the worker was employed in cutting a foundation ditch for concrete filling between two stacks of timber, the sides of the ditch gave way and the timber collapsed, falling upon the worker. A number of large brfildings has been erected during the year, some of them necessitating the erection of scaffolding, to a considerable height. It has not been found necessary to take proceedings for any offence under this Act. Wellington and Palmerston North. Mr. R. A. Bolland reports : — During the past year the state of the building trade has been normal in the Wellington District, with the exception that it was slack during the three months ending in December, during which the wharf labourers' strike was in progress. Very little friction has been experienced in the administration of the Act in the district. During the year 308 notices of intention to erect scaffolding were received. This is about half the number of structures inspected. In many cases alterations and additions were, on inspection, ordered to be made. A considerable amount of gear, such as ropes, poles, planks, and ladders, was condemned as unsound before being actually put into use. It was found necessary to take proceedings in three cases for failing to give notice of intention to erect scaffolding. A conviction was obtained and a fine imposed in each case. Thirteen accidents occurred on buildings in course of erection, and one ended fatally; in this case a labourer fell backwards from a ladder which he was ascending and sustained serious injury to his spine, from which he subsequently died.

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Nelson and Blenheim. Mr. S. Tyson reports :— During the period the building trade has been fairly busy. Forty notices of intention to erect scaffolding over 16 ft. in height have been received, and visits of inspection made to all principal towns in the district where scaffolding was being erected. 130 building permits were issued during the year by local authorities. A considerable amount of trouble is still given by carpenters and painters using batten ladders, and, when working on two-story buildings, failing to cover flooring-joists. I have found it necessary to condemn twelve batten ladders as unfit for use. I consider this class of ladder to be a continual source of danger to workmen, and would respectfully suggest- that in any future amendment to the Act a clause be inserted prohibiting their use on buildings. The use of these ladders was the cause of an accident that took place during the year, which resulted in two painters sustaining serious injuries, necessitating their removal to the hospital. One prosecution, for failing to give notice of accident, was taken, conviction obtained, and tine ordered. Greymouth. Mr. H. J. Torbit reports : — The building trade has been very quiet throughout the whole of the district, only four buildings of two stories high having been constructed. Ten notices of intention to erect scaffolding exceeding 16 ft. high have been received. These structures, together with all other scaffolding of whatever height, have been inspected. In one instance a large scaffold erected for the purpose of repairs to a two-storied wooden hotel had to be entirely condemned, and it was necessary to order the cessation of work thereon until properly constructed. No accident in connection with building operations was reported during the period. Christchurch. Mr. E. J. G. Stringer reports: — The year has been a very busy one in the building trade. Several new buildings have been erected and a number is in the course of erection at the present time. 490 notices of intention to erect scaffolding above the height of 16 ft. were received from builders. In all cases visits of inspection were made during the process of erection. In seventy-one cases it was necessary to draw attention to defects in the material used for scaffolding, and ten scaffoldings were wholly condemned as being unfit for men to work upon. Care was taken to see that all gear used on buildings for hoisting material, girders, &c, was in good repair. No report of accident has been received during the year, which clearly indicates that care has been taken by employers to provide the necessary safeguards for their workers. It was found necessary to take proceedings against four employers for failing to send written notice of their intention to erect scaffolding above the height of 10 ft., and a penalty was imposed in each case. Timaru. Mr. G. H. Lightfoot reports : — The building trade has shown a considerable falling-off during this year, and only thirty notices of intention to erect scaffolding were received. There have been four accidents reported, none of which was of a serious nature. Dunedin. Mr. F. Barton reports: — The year under review has been a very quiet one so far as the building trade is concerned, consequently the scaffoldings erected have not been so numerous or extensive as has been the case in former years. The number of notices of intention to erect scaffolding was 104, but as most of the structures were of a very temporary nature, as a rule one visit of inspection sufficed. A total of 617 visits to 236 buildings in the course of erection was made. There have been rive accidents on buildings in the course of erection, but not one of them was of a serious nature, and only one occurred in connection with scaffolding. Invercargill. Mr. J. Brown reports : — During the year twenty-one notices of intention to erect scaffolding were received; this is a considerable falling-off in the number received during the previous year. I have paid 157 visits of inspection during the year, and in most cases the scaffolding has been satisfactory. The class of scaffolding erected on suburban jobs is much superior to that in use a few years back, and in very few cases has any alteration been necessary. There has been no occasion to bring any prosecutions against builders.

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EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORTS OF OFFICERS IN CHARGE OF THE WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT BRANCHES OF THE DEPARTMENT.' Auckland. Miss Morrison reports : — During the period just closed 3,003 applications were received and dealt with. Of these, 1,950 were from employers and 1,055 from women desiring employment. 658 women —63 married and 595 single—were assisted to employment. The office has been extensively used as a centre for obtaining information and advice by the working women of Auckland and by immigrants landing from overseas. Included in the abovementioned total were 121 immigrants, who were placed in suitable employment during the year. Wellington. Miss Bremner reports : — During the year there have been 920 applications from employers and 768 engagements made, comprising 251 married and 517 single women. The total number assisted shows an appreciable increase of 119 over the previous year: this is due, no doubt, to the fact that the office has become more widely known and its benefit is recognized by both workers and mistresses. All classes of women workers have been in steady demand throughout the year, and quite a large number of engagements were made in employments outside domestic pursuits. Christchurch. Mrs. Way reports : — There were 1,688 applications received from employers and 366 from employees. Of the latter, 324 have been placed in suitable positions, 72 of whom were married and 252 single women or widows. The number assisted is less than last year, due to the increasing difficulty in securing domestic help and to the fact that there are more avenues of employment for girls and women. In addition a large number of girls left Christchurch to go to Auckland for the Exhibition season. There is a growing desire on the part of these workers to obtain work which is subject to awards of the Arbitration Court, as their duties are then more defined and the hours shorter. Wages have been much higher this year, but in spite of this only a small percentage of help could be obtained in comparison with the demand, and it has been almost an impossibility to obtain help for the country, the tendency on the part of domestics being to get employment in or near the city. New arrivals are eagerly sought for, but, unfortunately, very few of them are available here, owing to a very large percentage obtaining positions in the North Island nearer to their ports of arrival. Those who do call here are generally placed at once in good positions. Some of them, however, think they can demand £1 10s. or £2 per week in private houses. Dunedin. Miss Hale reports : — During the period just closed 1,063 applications were registered—viz., 762 from employers and 301 from employees, 255 women —40 married and 215 single—were assisted; 52 of them were found employment dh more than one occasion. The demand for female domestic workers appears to be impossible to supply. The urgent demand for the class of maid who is willing to undertake the functions of general assistant rather than the maid who is skilled in one department or another is very keen indeed. This refers particularly to the requirements of the private employer. Nelson. Miss Emerson reports : — The year has been a most favourable one for women workers. There has been a demand much in excess of the supply for domestic workers, dressmakers, tailoresses, factory workers, and fruit and hop pickers. The shortage of domestic workers is most serious. The wages offered for competent help are still increasing, and if the hours could be more clearly defined and the position of a domestic worker raised to a more dignified standing, one is inclined to think that a great deal of the present difficulty might be overcome. Jam-preserving and confectionery factories report, as usual, that work has been much hampered on account of the shortage of women workers. The pea. fruit, and hop picking industries are making rapid strides in this district. From five hundred to six hundred women and girls were employed during the past season in these industries. During the year 546 applications were received from employers and 146 from workers : 143 of the latter were placed at suitable employment.

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REPORTS FROM CONCILIATION COMMISSIONERS. Northern and Taranaki Industrial District* . Sir, — Conciliation Commissioner's Office, Auckland, 28th April, 1914. I have the honour to submit for the Right Hon. Minister's information my report on forty-five separate trade disputes dealt with in my district during the year ended 31st March, 1914. Disputes fully settled, as per list below, are marked "A " (thirty-one), partially settled "B " (eight), referred to Arbitration Court "C " (six). Ten of the disputes were settled without the aid of assessors, and the remaining thirty-five were dealt with by Councils of Conciliation (with assessors). ' In addition to the above I have presided over numerous informal conferences, at which differences that had arisen between employers and workers were satisfactorily adjusted. Despite the labour unrest which prevailed towards the close of 1913, and which culminated in a strike, the facilities afforded for the settlement of disputes under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1908 and its amendments are, I feel satisfied, greatly valued by both employers and employees. In all the disputes which I have had the honour to deal with nothing has occurred to mar the good feeling which it is so essential should exist between employers and their workers In conclusion, I have again to express my sincere appreciation of the courtesy and assistance given to me by the officers of the Department of Labour. (A.) Disputes fully settled. Auckland Fish-curers. Gisborne Furniture Trades. Marine Engineers (Union Steamship Com- Auckland Fire Brigades, pany (Limited)). Hamilton Drivers. South Auckland Engine-drivers and Fire- Taranaki Bakers. men. Auckland Slaughtermen. Slaughtermen (Gisborne and Tokomaru Auckland City Licensed Hotel Assistants. Bay). Taupiri Coal-mines. Auckland Brewery Employees. Auckland Seamen and Firemen (AustralTaranaki Painters and Decorators. Asian Federated Seamen's Union). Auckland and Suburban Local Bodies' Waro Coal-mines (Hikurangi Coal CornLabourers, pany). Auckland Builders' Labourers. Waro Coal-mines (Northern Coal Company) Auckland Contractors' Labourers. Auckland Waterside Workers. Auckland Quarry and Scoria-pit Labourers. Limestone Island Cement-workers. Hamilton Painters and Decorators. Onehunga Waterside Workers. Auckland Electrical Workers. Auckland Stage Employees. Engine - drivers (Devonport Steam Ferry Auckland Seamen and Firemen (Northern Company (Limited) ). Steamship Company (Limited). Gisborne Butchers. Auckland Brewery Employees (No. 2). Gisborne Painters and Decorators. (B.) Disputes partially settled. Auckland Town Plumbers. Nurserymen and Landscape Gardeners. Auckland Country Plumbers. Auckland Slaughtermen (Farmers' Freezing Auckland Beamsmen. Company). Auckland Bookbinders. Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and North Auckland Timber-workers. Joiners. -t (C.) Disputes referred to Court of Arbitration. Auckland Aerated-water Employees. Hikurangi Coal-miners. Poverty Bay Slaughtermen. Auckland Coal and Cargo Worker*. Rotorua Drivers. Auckland Tailors. I have, &c, T. Harle Giles. The Secretary of Labour. Wellington. Conciliation Commissioner.

Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland Industrial Districts. Sir, — Office of Commissioner of Conciliation, 21st April, 1914. I have the honour to submit, for the information of the Right Hon. the Minister of Labour, mv report on the various trade disputes that have been dealt with during the year ended 31st March, 1914. During the period mentioned fifty-five disputes were dealt with under the provisions of the Act. Thirty-four complete recommendations for agreement were made by Conciliation

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Councils; in ten cases partial settlements were arrived at; in two instances the whole dispute was referred to the Court for adjustment; and in nine disputes the parties succeeded in arranging terms of settlement without reference to a Council of Conciliation. Notwithstanding the fact that many of the unions working under awards and industrial agreements in the districts of Wellington, Marlborough, and Westland were strongly" urged to participate in the late strike, it is satisfactory to report that out of 113 registered unions operating in the districts only three became involved in the trouble. I would again respectfully suggest that, with a view of facilitating the settlement of Dominion disputes, machinery should be provided in the Act for the setting-up of Conciliation Councils having jurisdiction over more than one industrial district; also that the parties in different districts or localities may have adequate representation, and the opportunity of meeting in one centre, to arrange the dispute, instead of, as at present, having to meet at various centres and with different assessors for each district; further, that the Court should have power under certain conditions to extend the present limit of the term of awards to five years. List of Disputes. Napier Fishermen (s.s. " Beatrice "). Paparoa Coal-miners. Wellington Slaughtermen (old union). Blackball Coal-miners. Wellington General Labourers. State Coal-miners. Wellington Saddlers. Wellington Tally Clerks. Palmerston North Saddlers. Merchant Service Guild (Masters). Wanganui Saddlers. Merchant Service Guild (Mates). Napier Fishermen (s.s. " Nora Niven " and Wellington Dairy Employees. " Countess "). Wellington Shipwrights. Napier Saddlers. Wellington Tramways. Wellington Marine Engineers (No. 2). Palmerston North Painters. Westland Furniture Trade. Wellington Stage Employees. Wellington Hotel Employees. Westland Engine-drivers. New Plymouth Furniture Trade. Puponga Miners. Inangahua Miners. Palmerston North Carpenters. Wanganui Painters. Wellington Power-house Employees. Wellington Painters. Wellington Pullers. Wellington Hairdressers. Wanganui Gas Employees. Nelson Furniture Trade. Westport Labourers. Wellington Coachbuilders. Marlborough Slaughtermen. Wanganui Coachbuilders. Napier Gas Employees. Palmerston North Coachbuilders. Pakipaki Slaughtermen. Napier Coachbuilders. Wellington Fire Brigade. Masterton Coachbuilders. Longburn Slaughtermen. Wellington Carpenters. Wanganui Slaughtermen. Wairarapa Butchers. Napier Trawlers (s.s. " Energy "). Wellington Jewellers. Wellington Sausage-casing Makers. Wellington Iron-workers' Assistants. Wakatu Sausage-casing Makers. Wellington Boilermakers. Masterton Slaughtermen. I have, &c, P. Hally, The Secretary of Labour, Wellington. Conciliation Commissioner,

•f Canterbury and Otago and Southland Industrial Districts. Sir, — Conciliation Commissioner's Office, Christchurch, 27th April, 1914. I have the honour to submit, for the information of the Right Hon. the Minister, the following report on the conciliation provisions of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act in the above districts during the year. During the period mentioned sixty-four industrial matters have been dealt with by Conciliation Councils; thirty-six full settlements were arrived at; ten settlements were partially made; and in eighteen instances no settlements were made; in an additional six instances industrial agreements were arrived at without the appointment of assessors : total, seventy. List of Disputes. Canterbury Biscuit-bakers and Confee- Dunedin General Carriers and Coal-mer-tioners. chants' Labourers. Dunedin and Suburban Farriers. Otago Metal-workers' Assistants. Invercargill Fellmongers and Tanners. Christchurch Operative Bootmakers. Southland and Otago Cheese - factory Canterbury Printers' Machinists and BookManagers, binders.

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List of Disputes —continued. Christchurch Painters. Dunedin and Suburban General Electrical Ashburton Timber-yards, Sawmills, and Workers. Coal-yards Workers. Dunedin Tailoresses. Dunedin Plumbers. Invercargill Tramways' Employees. Dunedin Operative Stonemasons. Dunedin Carpenters and Joiners. Dunedin Brass-finishers. Canterbury Motor-delivery Drivers. Canterbury Quarry Labourers. Canterbury Local Bodies Drivers. /-i v r> v > t i Ashburton Painters. Canterbury Builders Labourers. „ , T . , ~ _, . J , . t, ~ , T r. Canterbury Livet v-stable hniplovees. Canterbury Local Bodies Labourers. ~ , -d • i -n n- ' tm i „ , * " , „ . c,. Canterbury Brick, Pottery, Pipe, lile, and Canterbury Wool and Grain Btore <-~ Workers. Labourers. Dunedin Canister-makers. rimaru General Labourers. ( ; mv Wo ol-classers and Fellmongers. Southland Slaughtermen. Waronui Coal-miners. Dunedin Trawlers. Southland Butchers. Otago and Southland Saddlers, Harness- Dunedin Millers. makers, and Collar-makers. Dunedin Theatrical Employees (other than Nightcaps Coal-miners. stage hands). Timaru Waterside Workers. Oamaru Wharf Labourers. Canterbury Slaughtermen. Christchurch Gas Workers. Canterbury Millers. Canterbury Printers' Machinists, BookDunedin and Suburban Operative Butchers. binders, and Stereotypers. Otago and Southland Gold-dredgers. Dunedin Theatrical Stage Employees. Otago Public Bodies' Labourers. Christchurch Theatrical Stage Employees. Otago Builders' Labourers. Otago Boilermakers and Iron-ship Builders. Otago Quarry Labourers. Otago and Southland Gold-sluicers. Otago Slaughtermen. Dunedin Painters' Glaziers. Dunedin and Suburban Diapers' Assistants. Otago United Shipwrights. Dunedin Performing Musicians. Christchurch Carpenters and Joiners. Otago Printers' Machinists, Bookbinders, Invercargill Carpenters and Joiners. Paper-rulers, and Cutters. Southland Journalists. Dunedin and Suburban Operative Licensed Canterbury Boilermakers and Steel-ship Drainers. Builders. Christchurch Aerated-water Workers. Canterbury Agricultural Threshing-mills' Christchurch Drapers'. Assistants. Labourers. Canterbury Grocers' Assistants. Christchurch Farriers. Timaru Journalists. Canterbury Metal-workers' Assistants I have, &0., J. R. Triggs, The Secretary of Labour, Wellington. Conciliation Commissioner. -f

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Return showing Cases dealt with under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908, and its Amendments, Names of Industries affected, and the respective In t dustrial Districts, from Ist April, 1913, to 31st March, 1914. Industries affected. Industrial District. Industries affected. Industrial District. Accepted Recommendations of Conciliation Awards —continued. Councils. ~,. , , .. ~ Fish curers and smokers .. .. Northern. Butchers (Gisborne) .. .. .. Northern. Gas-meter [waterers and burner-main. Furniture trade (Gisborne) .. .. „ tenanoe men Painters and decorators (Poverty Bay) „ Hairdressers (Auckland) Stonemasons (whole district except Labourers (builders') Poverty Bay) „ Labourers (contractors') Pamters and decorators .. .. Tarauak,. Labourers (local bodies), (Auckland City ... and suburbs) .. .. .. ~ hidustrml Agreements. Painters (whole district excepCGisbome Coal-miners (Hikurangi Coal Company and Hamilton) .. .. .. „ (Limited)) .. .. .. Northern. Painters (Hamilton) .. .. .. „ Coal-miners (Northern Coal Company (Li- Plumbers and gasfitters .. .. „ mitcd)) .. .. .. .. „ Quarry and scoria-pit workers (Auckland) „ Coal-miner.- (Taupiri Coal Company (Li- Rattan and wicker workers .. .. „ mited)) .. .. .. .. .. Saddlers, harness, and bag-makers .. „ Engine-driver.-, winders, motormeii, and Tailors (Poverty Bay) .. .. „ firemen (in gold-mines), (South Auck- Furniture trade .. .. .. Taranaki. land) .. .. .. .. „ Plumbers and gasfitters .. .. „ Hotel assistants (Auckland City licensed), Bookbinders, paper-rulers, and cutters .. Wellington. (two) .. .. .. .. „ Butchers (Hawke's Bay and Manawatu).. „ Seamen and firemen (Australasian Fede- Carpenters and joiners (Wellington) .. „ rated Seamen's Union) .. .. „ • Hairdressers' assistants (Wellington) .. „ Seamen and firemen (Northern Steamship Jewellers, watch and clock makers, and Company (Limited)), (two) .. .. ~ kindled trades .. .. .. „ Slaughtermen (Gisborne and Tokomaru Labourers, general (Wellington) .. „ Bay) .. .. .. .. „ Marine engineers (New Zealand) .. „ Waterside workers (Auckland) .. „ Marine engineers (re small coastal vessels) „ Waterside workers (Onehunga), (two) .. „ Match-factory female employees (WellingWaterside workers (New Plymouth) .. Taranaki. t on ) . , .. .. .. >( Carters (Wellington) .. .. .. Wellington. Metal-workers" assistants (Wellington) .. „ Fire brigades (Wellington) .. .. „ Painters and decorators (Wanganui and Fishermen (re steam trawler " Energy"), district) .. .. .. .. „ (Napier) .. .. •• •■ •> Painters and decorators (Wellington and Gas-works employees (Napier).. .. „ suburban).. .. .. .. „ Labourers (Petone Borough Council) .. „ Plumbers and gasfitters .. .. „ Labourers (Wellington City Council) .. „ Saddlers, harness, and bag-makers .. „ Match-factory female operatives (supple- Furniture trade . . .. .. Nelson. mentary), (Wellington) .. .. „ Painters Sausage-casing makers (Wellington) .. „ Plumbers, gasfitters, and sheet-metal Sausage-casing makers (Whakatu) .. „ workers .. .. .. .. „ Seamen and firemen (Australasian Fede- Furniture trade .. .. .. Westland. rated Seamen's Union) .. .. „ Gold-miners (Inangab.ua) .. .. „ Slaughtermen (Longburn) .. .. „ Aerated - water makers and bottlers Slaughtermen (Masterton) .. .. „ (Christchurch) .. .. .. Canterbury. Slaughtormon (Paki Paki and Tomoana) „ Aerated - water makers and bottlers' Slaughtermen (Wanganui) .. .. „ drivers (Christchurch) Wharf labourers (Wellington) .. .. „ Biscuit-bakers and confectionery emWharf labourers (Nelson) .. .. Nelson. ployees (Christchurch) .. .. „ Coal-miners (Blackball) .. .. Westland. Bookbinders, paper-rulers, and cutters .. „ Waterside workers (Greymouth) .. „ Bootmakers (retailers, repairers, Ik.) ■ ■ „ Waterside workers (Westport).. .. „ Brass-finishers (Christchurch) .. .. ~ Horse-drivers (Christchurch) .. Canterbury. Cycle-workers Labourers (grain, wool, general produce, Electrical workers (Christchurch and and oil merchants'), (South Canterbury) „ Timaru) .. Manure, tallow, oleo, freezers, preservers, Grocers' assistants (Christchurch) .. „ &c, and freezing - works, labourers Journalists (Timaru, Temuka, Geraldine, (Christchurch) .. ' .. • • .. and Ashburton) .. .. .. „ Slaughtermen .. .. „ Labourers (builders', contractors', and Stereotypers (Christchurch) .. .. „ general) (Middle and North Canterbury) „ Wharf labourers (Lyttelton) .. „ Labourers (South Canterbury) .. ~ Musicians (Lyceum Hall Company (Li- i Labourers (local bodies') .. .. „ mited)), (Invercargill) .. -. Otago and Labourers (wool, grain, &c, merchants') „ Southland. News and rotary machinists (ChristSlaughtermen (Makarewa, Mataura, and church) Ocean Beach) .. .. • • Ditto. Newspaper reporters and proof-readers Slaughtermen (Otago) .. • ■ „ (Christchurch) .. .. .. „ Waterside workers (Dunedin) .. .. „ Painters and decorators (Christchurch) .. „ Waterside workers (Oamaru) .. .. „ Plumbers and gasfitters .. .. „ Quarry - workers (Christchurch and TiAwards. maru) .. .. .. • • >. Aerated-water and cordial bottlers, a D d Retail soft-goods trade employees brewers of non-intoxicating beverages Northern. Threshing-millers (South Canterbury) . . Beamsmen .. .. • • • • » Timber-yards, sawmills, and coal-yards Brewery, malt-house, and bottling-house employees (Ashburton) •mployees Wharf labourers (Timaru) .. .. „ Bookbinders, paper-rulers, and outters .. „ Bookbinders, paper-rulers, and cutters .. Otago and .-, , , ' Southland. Ooachworkers .. •• ■• .. • _ Electrical workers - Brass-fimshers (Dunedin) .. .. Ditto. Engineers (Devonport and Takapuna Breweries and botthng-houses employees Ferry Companies*) .. .. •• „ Butchers (Dunedin) .. Engineers (Union Steamship Company j Canister-workers (Dunedin) (Limited)) .. • • • • ». ! Carpenters and joiners (Otago)

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Return showing Cases dealt with under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, etc. — continued. Industries affected. Industrial District, i Industries affected. Industrial District. Awards— continued. Awards— continued. Cheese-factory managers .. .. Otago and Plumbers and gasfitters .. .. Otago and Southland. . . _ ~ , Southland. Coal-miners (Nightcaps) .. .. Ditto. Quarry-workers (Dunedin) Ditto. Coal-miners (Waronui) Retail soft-goods trade employees (Dun-Coal-yards employees (Dunedin) .. " edin and suburbs) .. Drainers (licensed), (Dunedin and Saddlers, harnessmakers, and collarmakers „ suburban) Stonemasons (Otago).. Drivers (Gore and Mataura) .. .. „ Storemen (wool and grain, &c, merDrivers (Invercargill) . . .. „ m <* ants )• (Southland) Electrical workers (Dunedin) Tai oresses and skirtmakers (shop) Farriers (Dunedin) Tailors (shop) Fellmongery and tannery employees Tramways (Invercargill) (Southland) .. .. .. „ i Trawlers •■ •" ■■ •• Flour-mill employees.. .. .. „ . . , _ Gold-miners (Lawrence) Rulings by Commissioner of Conciliulim, Labourers (builders and contractors'), re Wages, Hours, and other Conditions of (Dunedin) La , bour - Labourers (local bodies'), (Dunedin) .. „ Fishermen (trawler" Beatrice") .. Wellington, Metal-workers' assistants .. .. ~ Fishermen (trawlers "Nora Niven" and Musicians (Invercargill and Oamaru) .. „ "Countess") .. .. .. ~

Applications for Awards heard by the Court in which no Award was made.

Trade. District. Particulars. Drivers (motor - vehicle) and livery-stable hands Slaughtermen Canterbury Wellington m f Whilst tliese disputes were under consideration of the Court it was roported in tho newspapers that the membera of the union had decided to engage in a strike and had carried this decision into effect. The Court cause inquiries to be made, and the report was substantiated. The Court held it was clear that the union had been guilty of a breach of section 6 of the Amendment Act, 1908, by instigating a strike, and was liable under tho Act to have its registration suspended for two years. Under these circumstances, the Court refused to make any award, and the applications wore dismissed. In this case the applicant, union had cited eight respondents (employers) for the purpose of obtaining an award. It was proved that five of these respondents were working under industrial agreements (relating to the conditions of employment of their slaughtermen) mado with other slaughtermen's unions duly registered under the Act. and that the remaining three were about to enter or were in process of entering into similar agreements with the respective unions of their employees. The Court, in these circumstances, decided not to interfere by making an award as an award in the case of those respondents already bound by industrial agreements would be useless, whilst in the case of those not already bound, the Court considered that an opportunity of completing the proposed agreements should be given. The application was accordingly dismissed. It might be mentioned that the applicant union had a short time previously cancelled its registration under the Act for the purpou , of enabling it to take part in a strike without being subject to the penalties imposed by the Act upon registered unions. This was an application of an employer for a new award, tho period of the currency of the award then in force to which he was a party having ran out. The award now applied for was to be on tho samo terms as the old award with the omission therefrom of a provision to the effect that the employer's registered workroom in which bespoke work is to be done must be within the district covered by the award. The Court held that it would not be proper for an award to be made unless the other employers covered by the old award were cited as parties. It expressed the opinion that the question whether an employer's registered workroom was to be within or without the territory covered by an award did not come within the definition of " industrial matters " as contained in the Act, and that therefore the Court had no jurisdiction to deal with it. The Court held that the award ought to be read as if the words " within the district covered by this award " had been struck out (its attention not having been drawn to the provision when the award was made, and the parties having previously agreed on the terms of the award). The Court thorefore gave authority that the award may be read accordingly. 'ailoresses (Hawke's Bay) Wellington

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FACTORIES. Table 1.

X' rL\j xviiii^u. Table 1. Year ending 31st March, 1914. I Total Xumber of Persons engaged. Wages paid ,., ,. ; o *. during tli ■ 1 ■' ' ■ Xotal h| v,;ir ended Employers. , Employees. Pel on« |s 'it Mar<h eugigd. l| IMSMate. .Fem&le. .M ale. Female. AUCKLAND CITY. £ Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing .. .. 13 .. 101 .. 114 12 10,817 Agricultural-implement making .. .. .. 8 .. 90 .. 98 8 10,110 Ammunition-manufacturing .. .. .. 5 .. 24 73 102 2 6,718 Bacon-curing .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. 10 1 12 1 1,437 Bagmaking .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. 2 .. 3 1 * 250 Baking-powder, &c, manufacturing .. .. .. 3 .. 16 8 27 3 1,469 liaskrt, wickerware, and perambulator manufacturing .. 9 .. 59 6 74 8 4,485 Billiard-table manufacturing .. .. .. 2 .. 5 .. 7 1 612 Biscuit and confectionery, &c, making .. .. 31 .. 149 129 309 17 21,060 Blacksmithing, farriery, &c. .. .. .. 55 .. 91 .. 146 49 9,297 Blindmaking .. .. .. .. .. 5 .. 12 2 19 4 981 Boatbuilding and shipwrighting .. .. .. 30 .. 218 .. 248 24 23,715 Boot and shoe making and repairing .. .. 108 .. 561 230 899 96 73,191 Brassfounding .. .. .. .. .. 10 .. 32 .. 42 8 2,024 Bread and pastry baking .. .. .. .. 79 .. 247 17 343 75 31,292 Brewing, malting, and bottling, &c. .. .. .. 12 .. 254 1 267 18 34,300 Brick, tile, and pottery manufacturing ■ .. .. ,30 .. 278 .. 308 15 34,758 Brush and broom manufacturing .. .. .. 5 .. 24 3 32 4 2,453 Butchers' small-goods manufacturing .. .. 34 .. 52 .. 86 38 5,383 Butter-making, cream-separating, and milk-pasteurizing 12 43 8 63 14 5,052 Cabinetmaking and upholstering .. .. .. 96 3 531 35 665 83 55,102 Cardboard-box making .. .. .. .. 4 .. 9 46 59 4 3,970 Carpentering, joinery, and sash and door making .. 113 .. 1,113 3 1,229 101 136,496 Chaffcutting and grain-crushing, &c. .. .. 9 .. 33 10 52 10 3,110 Chemicals and drugs manufacturing and packing .. 16 .. 102 18 136 12 12,076 Clothing-manufacturing .. .... .. 12 1 86 465 564 12 34,518 Coach and tram-car building and repairing .. .. 30 .. 435 .. 4<i"> 23 54,554 Coffee and spice grinding .. .. .. .. 2 .. 14 .. Hi 3 1,440 Cork-cutting .. .. .. .. .. 2 .. 1 3 1 61 Concrete-block making, &c. .. .. .. 10 .. 22 .. 32 8 1,871 Coopering and boxmaking .. .. .. .. 11 .. 44 .. 56 10 3,857 (loppersmithing Cycle and motor engineering' .. .. .. 30 .. 79 .. 109 25 7,764 Dentistry (mechanical) .. .. .. .. 29 25 14 68 24 4,313 Dress and millinery making.. .. .. .. 27 139 12 680 858 151 24,820 Dyeing, cleaning, and feather-dressing .. .. 9 .. 12 11 32 6 1,586 Electrical engineering .. .. .. .. 11 .. 87 .. 98 10 7,812 Electric light, heat, and power generating .. .. 10 .. 59 .. 69 7 9,590 Electroplating and engraving .. .. .. 7 .. 7 .. 14 6 313 Embroidery and art-needlework Engineering .. ■■ •• •• .. 91 .. 950 .. 1,041 58 101,381 Fellmongering .. .. .. .. .. 7 .. 191 .. 198 8 26,979 Fibrous-plaster working .. .. .. .. 4 .. 42 .. 46 3 5,521 Firewood-cutting, grain-crushing, &c. .. .. 18 .. 31 .. 49 18 3,000 Fireclay-goods making Fish-curing .. .. .. .. .. 10 .. 26 .. 36 5 3,362 Flax-milling .. ... .. .. .. 1 .. 4 .. 5 1 260 Flock and kapoc milling ,-. .. .. .. 5 .. 2 2 9 3 104 Flour and oatmeal milling .. .. .. .. 3 .. 60 .. 63 3 8,104 Fruit-preserving and jam-making .. .. .. 3 .. 57 . 37 97 5 5,863 Gas, coke, and coal-tar manufacturing .. .. 3 .. 302 .. 305 4 40,155 Glass bevelling and silvering .. .. .. 3 .. 34 .. 37 3 3,618 Gun and lock smithing .. .. .. .. 1 .. 4 .. 5 1 572 Hair-working (wigs, &c.) .. .. .. .. 8 4 l 6 19 8 217 Hat and cap manufacturing .. .. .. 5 2 16 37 60 5 4,578 Hosiery-knitting .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. .. 13 14 1 559 Iron-bedstead and mattress, &c, making .. .. 6 .. 30 6 42 2 3,802 Kauri-gum sorting and packing .. .. .. 31 .. 139 .. 170 18 16,406 Lapidary-work .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. 1 2 1 40 Laundry-work (Europeans) .. .. .. .. 11 14 32 163 220 21 9,336 Laundry-work (Chinese) .. .. .. .. 57 2 2 61 45 115 Margarine-manufacturing .. .. .. .. 2 .. .. .. 2 1 Manure-mixing .. .. .. 3 .. 22 .. 25 4 290 Meat slaughtering and preserving, &c. .. .. 4 .. 231 .. 235 6 25,079 Monumental masonry .. .. .. .. 11 78 2 91 7 11,321 Oil canning and packing .. .. .. .. 1 .. 9 .. 10 2 1,013 Oilskin-manufacturing .. .. .. .. 1 .. 3 9 13 I 1 601 Optical and scientific instrument making .. .. 3 .. 8 .. 11 3 1,695 Organ-building \ .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. 5 .. 6 1 355 Paint, varnish, and glue manufacturing .. .. 5.. 15 3 23 4 2,056 Paper-milling and paper-bag making .. .. 2 2 47 17 68 3 6,559 Photography .. .. .. .. .. 22 3 16 36 77 22 3,451 Picture-framing .. .. .. .. .. 19 46 5 70 17 4,909 * Includes managers and others personally engaged in the work of the factory.

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Vear ending 31st March, 1914. Number of Persons eng.igi-d. Trade - Totnl Employers.* Employ es. , Persons engag d Male. Female. Male. Female. I " " - Totnl Wages paid •g ,! j durintr the *-.- Veil £ o 31>t March, Bβ 1913. g! AUCKLAND CITY—continued. £ Plumbing and tinsmithing .. .. .. .. 81 .. 274 .. 355 Portmanteau-making .. .. .. .. 7 .. 35 7 £49 Printing and bookbinding .. .. .. .. 85 4 578 239 9061 Rag-sorting and marine-stores preparing .. .. 9 .. 35 .. 44] Range-making, &c. P>oi ic and twine manufacturing .. .. .. I .. 39 .. 40 Saddlery and harness making .. .. .. US .. 182 40 260 Sail, tent, and canvas-goods making . . .. .. 6 .. 50 44 100 Sauce, pickle, and condiment making .. .. 13 1 53 31 98 Saw-sharpening, >fco. .. .. .. .. 4 .. .. .. 4 Sewing and typewriting machine repairing .. .. 5 .. 10 .. 15 Sheet-metal and galvanized-iron workers .. .. it .. Iti4 !l 1X2 Shirt-manufaotunng .. .. .. .. 15 18 53 640 I 726 Sign and ticket writing .. .. .. .. 14 .. :>•"> 5 54 Soap-boiling .. .. .. .. .. 9 75 14 98 Stone quarrying and crushing .. .. .. ' 1 .. 93 .. 94 Sugar-refining .. .. .. .. .. 5 .. 289 .. 294 Tailoring .. .. .. .. .. 124 4 291 529 948 Tanning and currying, &c. .. .. .. .. 5 .. 73 .. 78 Tea blending and packing .. .. .. .. 12 .. 36 IQ 58 Tobacco-cutting and cigar and cigarette makiiif; .. 4 .. 2 11 17 Umbrella making and repairing .. .. .. i 2 6 7 19 I'ndcrclothing-manufacturing and plain sewing Watch and jewellery making .. .. .. 37 .. 108 2 147 Whip-manufacturing .. .. .. .. 2 .. 7 .. 9 Wire mattress and cage making .. .. .. 4 1 14 .. 19 Woodwork, turnery, &c. .. .. .. 20 .. 26 .! 49 Wool rug and mat making Wool and hemp dumping .. .. .. .. 1 .. 29 .. 30 Woollen-milling .. .. .. .. .. 12 .. 35 31 78 71 [29,577 4 3 3,581 50 8 2,097 1 3,800 32 20,445 8 8,427 12 5,223 2 6 I ,053 7 17,148 :i4 38,583 L8 5,123 9 8,518 4 13,361 1 46,371 107 i 70,637 5 9,461 12 2.910 4 578 5 725 31 11,236 2 466 4 985 15 2,071 2 924 1 6,53B Totals .. .. .. .. 1,751 198 9,935 3,720 15,604 1,751 198 9,935 3,720 15,604 1,627 1,328,401 WELLINGTON CITY. L'Y. £ Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing .. .. 9 .. 70 6 85 Agricultural-implement making .. .. .. .. .. 4 .. 4 Asbestos-goods working .. .. .. .. 1 .. 3 .. 4 Asphalt-making .. .. .. .. .. 6 .. 7 .. 13 Artificial-limbs and toy making .. .. .. 2 .. .. .. 2 Bacon-curing .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 71 .. 71 Basketware and perambulator manufacturing .. 7 26 4 37 Billiard-table making . . .. .. .. 1 .. 24 .. 2.") Biscuit and confectionery making .. .. .. 12 .. 21 42 75 Blacksmithing and coach building .. .. .. 39 .. 97 .. 136 Boatbuilding .. ..... .. .. 3 .. 2 .. 5 Boot-manufacturing .. .. .. .. 68 .. 270 121 459 Bottling .. .. '.. .. .. .. 6 .. 16 .. 22 Brass and copper founding and finishing .. .. 8 .. 54 .. 62 Bread and small-goods baking .. .. .. 76 6 130 6 218 Brewing and malting, &c. .. .. .. ■. 3 .. 58 .. 61 Brick, tile, and pottery making .. .. .. 6 .. 151 .. 157 Brushware-manufacturing .. .. .. .. 1 .. 6 3 10 Butchers'small-goods manufacturing .. .. 44 .. 36 .. 80 Butter making and packing.. .. .. .. 9 .. 38 2 49 Cabinetmaking and upholstering .. .. .. 71 .. 242 41 354 Cardboard-box making .. .. .. .. 1 .. 18 28 47 Chemical and drug manufacturing .. .. .. 12 .. 10 37 59 Clot limp-manufacturing .. .. •■ •• 20 .. 116 513 649 Coopering and caeemaking .. .. .. .. 2 .. 44 .. 46 Corset and belt making .. .. .. .. 1 .. 1 1 3 Condiment and jam making .. .. .. 13 .. 38 46 97 Cutlery and surgical-instruments making .. .. 1 .. .. .. 1 Cycle and motor engineering .. .. .. 39 .. 63 .. 102 Dentistry (mechanical) .. .. .. .. 21 .. 22 12 55 Dressmaking and millinery .. .. .. .. 11 113 14 591 729 Dyeing, cleaning, and feather-dressing .. .. 13 2 8 14 37 Electrical engineering .. .. .. . ■ 14 .. 50 .. 64 Electric light and power generating . . .. .. .. .. 57 1 58 Electroplating and engraving, &c. .. .. 14 .. 10 2 26 Engineering .. | 39 .. 419 .. 458 Fibrous-plaster working .. .. .. .. 8 .. 8 .. 16 6 70 4 3 7 71 26 24 21 97 2 270 16 54 130 58 151 6 36 38 242 18 10 116 44 1 38 6 4 42 121 6 3 2 41 28 37 513 85 4 4 13 2 71 37 25 75 136 5 459 22 62 218 (il 157 10 80 49 354 47 59 649 46 3 97 1 102 55 729 37 64 58 26 458 16 10 2 1 4 2 1 7 1 8 36 8 51 7 8 66 3 9 1 40 9 67 2 11 15 2 1 9 1 32 18 104 11 13 3 10 27 7,432 851 364 640 8,140 3,104 3,821 3,604 10,875 315 40,480 1,686 5,844 16,109 10,243 16,765 860 3,900 4,539 31,500 2,713 2,701 41,689 5,310 78 7,108 1 46 .13 2 63 22 14 8 50 57 10 419 8 12 591 14 5,987 3,109 27,873 1,241 4,891 10,140 1,078 39,329 796 1 2 * Include 4 * managers and (.thers personally engaged In tljp work of the Breton iged in tl work of llr meter;

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Year ending 31st March, 1914. Tnde. Number of Persons engaged. o « Total uS Employers.* Employees. Persons .00 engagd. g^ Male. Female. Male. Female. Total Wages paid during the Year ended 81 <t March. 1913. WELLINGTON CITYmtinued. £ Firewood-cutting and bone-crushing .. .. • Fellmongering Kisli -curing Fur-rug making Gas-manufacturing and meter-repairing, &c. Glass bevelling and silvering Qnn and lock smithing Hair-working Hat and cap making Hosiery-knitting Laundry-work (Europeans) Laundry-work (Chinese) Leadlight-majiufacturing Lead-headed-nail and traps, &c, making Manure-making and tallow-preparing Marine-stores preparing Margarine-manufacturing Meat slaughtering and freezing Metal-ceiling manufacturing Monumental masonry Oil canning and packing Organ-building and piano-repairing .. Oilskin-manufacturing Optical work Photography Picture-framing Plaster-working Plumbing and tinsmithing .. Portmanteau and leather-goods making Printing and bookbinding, &e. Rope and twine making Saddle and harness making Sail, tent, and canvas-goods making .. Sausage-casing manufacturing Saw and tool making Sawmilling, joinery, and sash and door making Sewing and other machine repairing Shipwrighting .. ... Shirt and underclothing making and plain sewing Soap and candle making, &c. Stone quarrying and crushing Tailoring Tanning and currying Tea blending and packing Tobacco-cutting and cigarette-making Tram-oar building and repairing Umbrella-manufacturing Watoh and jewellery manufacturing .. Wax-vesta manufacturing* Whip-thong making Wire-working (mattresses, &c.) Wood carving and turning Woollen-milling Wool and hemp, &c, dumping -21 4 3 6 3 3 7 2 9 44 2 1 3 8 2 12 1 21 1 7 16 10 74 5 38 2 18 3 2 2 84 10 2 7 6 6 75 3 8 5 [••I 1 3 "l I 29 "2 1 .. "s 20; 2 22, 4 72" 26 3 13 1 37 11 12 5 48 13 2 689 4 12 9 11 1 8 11 243 11 395 12 61 14 45 5 270 24 52 4 25 18 222 37 32 7 79 8 87 14 3 22 10 99 30 .. I 5 "« 29 3 241 "f> '*3 22 11 "2 138 14 13 !! "2 90 3 ill 3 5 ' 28 2 76 1 123 41 3 26 13 78 29 6 7 49 7 316 55 14 6 51 26 4 692 4 24 10 32 2 7 48 32 317 18 571 14 93 31 47 7 354 36 54 109 34 24 720 40 43 17 79 35 Uβ 91 4 31 18 224 30 16 1 4 3 6 2 3 3 8 3 29 33 2 2 4 5 2 2 1 6 2 10 1 3 14 9 57 4 31 1 17 4 2 2 57 9 3 11 .4 7 73 2 7 5 2 1 23 1 1 6 7 1 1 2,416 127 4,533 815 9,708 1,986 373 261 2,756 165 15,401 971 1,698 550 7,014 2,035 111 84,712 734 1,712 1,278 3,282 130 2,144 1,647 31,702 1,287 58,372 880 7,438 2,243 5,617 434 31,657 2,642 7,371 3,628 4,187 2,089 57,961 5,930 2,101 998 12,420 2,225 10,104 6,867 172 2,648 1,301 20,798 1,400 2 27 1 1 8 8 2 Totals 1,167 172 5,069 2,707 9,115 1,113 756,146 CHRISTCHL ICH CI [TY. £ Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing Agricultural-implement making Asbestos-flooring manufacturing Asphalt-making and shingle-preparing Automatic and other machine making Bacon-curing Bagmaking (calico, flax, jute, &c.) Baking-powder manufacturing Basket and wickerware working Billiard-table manufacturing .. .. Biscuits, confectionery, and cocoa manufacturing Blacksmithing and coachbuilding Blindmaking 31 9 1 5 4 4 1 1 9 2 11 74 1 1 46 487 3 9 33 35 6 19 25 2 200 153 4 2 24 201 "2 80 496 4 14 37 39 31 20 34 4 415 227 7 21 11 1 5 4 5 1 1 6 1 12 <>2 1 5,320 58,299 498 1,035 3,976 5,057 1,375 1,720 2,190 307 30,577 16,607 848 "3 * Includes managers and others persoi illy engai ,ged in thi work of the factory.

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Year ending 31st March, 19H. Number of Persons engaged. Total Wages paid during the •! Trade. Employers. , Employees. Total Persons engaged. Year ended 31st Harch, 1913. Male. Female. Male. Female. CHRISTCHURCH CITY— ■ronti 11 lit id. £ Boatbuilding Boot making and repairing Brick, tilo, pottery, and oonorete-pipe manufacturing ■ ■ Bread and small-goods baking Brewing, malting, and bottling Brush and broom manufacturing Butchers' small-goods manufacturing Butter and cheese manufacturing C'abinetmaking and upholstering Cardboard-box making, &o. .. Carpentering, joinery, and sash and door making Chemicals, drugs, and patent-medicine manufacturing .. Clothing-manufacturing ( loffee and spice grinding Coopering Coppersmithing Corset and belt making Cycle and motor engineering Dentistry (mechanical) Dress and millinery making Dyeing, cleaning, and feather-dressing Electroplating and engraving Klci die light and power generating .. Electrical engineering Engineering and Lronfounding I'Yllmongering, tanning, &e. Fibrous-plaster working Firewood-cutting Fish-curing Fireworks-manufacturing Flour and oatmeal milling Gas-manufacturing Gas-meter, &c, repairing Glue-making Gun and lock smithing Hair-working and wig, &c, making Hat and cap making Hosiery-knitting Jam-making Laundry-work (Europeans) Laundry-work (Chinese) Leadlight-mannfaoturing Lead-headed-nail making .. .. • Leather goods and portmanteau manufacturing Manure-making Marine-stores preparing Meat slaughtering and freezing Monumental masonry Musical-instrument making and,repairing Oil canning and packing Oilskin-manufacturing .? Oleo and tallow making Optical-goods making Paper-bag making Perambulator-manufacturing Photography Picture-framing Plumbing and gasfitting Printing, &c. Rag-sorting, &c. Rope and twine manufacturing Saddle and harness making Sail, tent, and canvas-goods making Sauce, pickle, and condiment making Sausage-casing making .. Saw-trimmers and tool-repairers Seed and grain cleaning and packing Sewing-machine. &c, repairing Shirtmaking Sign and ticket writing Soap and candle manufacturing Stone quarrying and crushing Tailoring Tea blending and packing .. 8 72 10 99 19 4 71 8 65 2 118 12 8 3 4 3 7 2 17 393 146 93 145 44 79 40 32(5 2 482 22 14(i II 11 5 203 27 8 ie Iβ 25 668 156 226 164 65 155 48 407 20 600 56 723 17 15 8 3 283 91 1,347 32 20 53 82 462 410 19 23 8 5 74 56 26 5 10 6 27 54 82 235 12 27 5 12 6 64 9 87 15 2 60 9 51 3 98 12 8 3 4 2 1 77 35 119 9 6 3 f> 37 14 3 8 2 1 6 2 1 1 4 2 2 6 5 10 12 4 1 3 1,436 57,313 16,865 17,588 20,415 5,788 8.894 4,238 31,695 781 50,989 2,470 4<i.048 794 1,030 562 143 19,596 4,197 46,576 841 982 9,189 5.511 51,165 44,977 1,044 1,289 600 60 7,078 8,264 3.289 758 813 128 1,127 2.432 4,618 f>. 030 1 22 "l 2 95 40 29 8 11 1 6 45 23 6 10 3 1 8 2 1 1 r, 1 2 5 6 6 12 4 1 3 216 4 •• . 188 34 15 !l 9 52 76 417 387 13 13 5 2 60 54 25 4 5 17 1,087 11 "2 6 "l 3 1 19 4 5 37 198 4 21 41 38 17 23 4 7 2 2,444 426 1,006 3 2 10 7 2 3 4 915 26 15 4 5 2 8 9 925 :m 22 6 13 3 2 5 6 2 2 493 73,026 2,988 2.126 131 957 5 2 "l 2 6 1 8 9 14 196 561 21 35 49 11 9 3 14 51 35 262 753 23 38 74 19 3 1 2 13 14 48 31 2 1 19 6 719 32 811 2,724 1,105 18,883 70,507 2 11 19 66 38 2 3 25 5 "3 1 4 28 1 154 "2 3,346 r>. 73.-, 1,111 1 4 2 11 3 7 5 9 Iβ 73 6 21 11 3 59 4 24 8 49 68 216 10 2 io2 1 15 5 72 7 154 14 58 84 679 19 3 2 11 2 21 4 6 14 72 6 1,360 178 r>,017 545 (>.»>;->! 535 5,584 9,389 53,795 904 1 389 3 • Includes managers and others perao) tally ongai ;ed in tin work of ihe factor;

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Factories — continued. Table 1—continued.

Trade. Year ending 31st March, 1914. j Total Number of Persons engaged. Wages paid *o x during the Total h g Year ended Employers.* Employees. Persons £ o 31st March, ; engaged. S 2 1913. g£ Male, i Female. Male. Female. Male, j Female. CHRISTCHURCI CITY■niiliii ed. £ Tobacco-cutting and cigarette-making Tram-car building and repairing Umbrella-making .. Watch and jewellery making Whip-thong making Wine-manufacturing Wire-working Wood carving and turning .. Wool and hemp dumping Woollen-milling 1 2 29 1 1 4 8 1 1 45 '66 1 28 8 20 144 3 4(> 5 85 1 2 32 Iβ 21 260 1 2 28 1 1 4 7 2 1 6,843 333 7,316 120 2,730 399 2,007 24,808 iie Totals 1,378 280 7,250 3,171 12.007 1,292 935,363 dux 1: i>i: I CITY. £ Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing Agricultural-implement manufacturing Asphalt-manufacturing Bacon-curing Bagmaking (calico, flax, and jute) Basket a'nl (rickerware manufacturing Bisouit and confectionery manufacturing Black smithing, farriery, ft c. Blindmaking Boatbuilding Boot making and repairing . . .. .. • Box and beehive making Bread and small-goods baking Brewing, malting, and bottling Brick, tile, pottery, and concrete-pipe manufacturing .. Brush and broom manufacturing liutilu-rs' small-goods manufacturing Butter, cheese, and condensed-milk manufacturing Cabinetmaking and upholstering Cardboard-box making, &c... Carpentering, joinery, and sash and door making Chemicals, drags, and patent-medicine manufacturing .. Clothing-manufacturing ( !oachbuilding Coffee and spice grinding Cyole and motor engineering Dentietry (mechanical) Dressmaking and milliner; .. Dyeing and cleaning Electric power and light generating .. Electrical engineering Engineering and ironfounding Engraving and die-sinking .» Peflmongering Fibrous-plaster working '.. Firewood-cutting, '8co, Pish curing and canning Flock and kapoc milling Flour and oatmeal milling .. Fruit-preserving and jam-making Gas, ooke, and coal-tar manufacturing .. ,. I flun and lock smithing, and sporting-goods manufacturing j Hair-working .. .. .. .. ■■ I Hal and cap making Hosiery-knitting .. • Ink-manufacturing Lapidary-work Laundry-work (Europeans) ., Laundry-work (Chinese) Leadlight and glazing work Lead-headed-nails making .. Lime and cement manufacturing Manure-mixing Marine-stores preparing Meat-slaughtering, &o. Monumental masonry Musioal-instrnment making and repairing * Includes managers am) otheis peraoi 14 6 4 19 7 20 43 ] 5 71 5 73 15 13 3 55 23 50 4 06 12 9 23 9 24 31 35 3 4 6 63 3 8 3 10 14 3 10 8 1 2 3 6 3 1 3 5 28 5 1 a 5 1 1 4 8 5 1 "l 1 1 5120 59 lf>4 1 12 24 232 49 5 18 279 19 166 I9fl 78 , 30 62 64 284 7 311 79 90 60 19 84 20 7 35 83 1,011 7 10 16 20 16 10 52 67 53 4 2 32 1 30 194 2 140 24 0 17 17 19 17 29 531 "3 11 770 3 ::) 160 5 32 30 31 446 92 8 23 490 48 230 210 91 50 117 104 353 29 407 121 631 83 31 108 67 934 13 30 89 1,089 10 27 19 39 29 13 62 120 54 9 20 122 29 5 3 107 28 Iβ 3 64 24 3 102 22 28 8 r> 2 16 3 7 11 38 1 4 54 4 66 11 5 2 51 19 41 3 66 12 9 12 6 19 30 120 3 4 0 38 :) r> 3 18 11 3 6 5 2 2 4 9 5 1 1 10 in 5 l 3 r> l l :i 7 6,786 10,776 307 1,028 1,969 1,173 30,098 4,944 590 1,640 43,612 3,669 19,681 23.892 8,961 3,701 6,001 7,866 28,951 1,696 31.077 11,813 42,665 6.238 2,174 7,424 2,662 32,334 987 6.031 4.822 110.839 000 1,960 1,800 1.157 1,384 1.202 5,717 8,810 8,017 726 1,376 8,306 808 683 "ir, 1 44 1 3 4 3 14 81 22 4 "7 29 66 I >><>.-, II 2 59 19 2 101 18 20 i ,378 185 7,152 1,376 169 8,135 3,697 1,800 inlly engaj :ril in th< wurk of tl »■ fa<'tor\

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Trade. Year ending 31st March, Number of Persons engaged. 1914. 1914. Total Wages paid *o £ during the Total u .2 Tear ended Persons -a o 31st Miirdl, engaged. | g 1913. Employers. , Employees. Male. I Female. Hale. < Female. DUNEDIN ( « mtinued. [_ £ Optical-goods making Oil canning and packing Paint and varnish making .. Paper-milling Paper-bag making Perambulator and go-cart making Photography I 'icture- framing Plumbing and tinsmithing Portmanteau and leather-goods making Printing and bookbinding. &c. Rabbit-packing Ropo and twine making Sail, tent, and cover making Saddle and harness making Sauce and condiment making Sausage-casing preparing Saw and cutlery repairing Seed cleaning and packing Sewing-machine and typewriter repaii ing Shipwrighting Shirt and underclothing making and plain sewing Sign and ticket writing Soap, starch, and candle making Stone quarrying and crushing Tailoring Tanning and currying Tea blending and packing Tobacco-cutting and cigarette-making Tram-car building and repairing Umbrella making and repairing Watch and jewellory making and repairing Wax-vesta making Whip-making Wire-working and mattress-making Wool-dumping and hide and skin sorting Woollen-milling 1 3 7 1 1 2 12 8 68 4 31 5 1 5 21 3 2 2 7 5 2 5 3 5 6 Ii5 0 14 3 7 3 29 1 1 9 17 3 1 ■2 3 Hi 37 11 4 45 18 321 11 587 21 -II) 42 t:s 13 16 3 30 10 670 123 11 77 50 520 80 49 (i 49 li 120 72 1 81 98 T!I2 1 1 l> 1 1 1 12 8 52 3 2li 4 1 :i is 4 2 1 7 ,"t 2 13 :i 5 5 li-; 4 13 :s 4 :: :■!» 1 1 ii 15 2 32 / 300 662 3,198 325 60 2,ITS 772 23,306 2S5 72,248 1,441 5,060 2,611 5,764 608 I. Vli:: 146 2,384 1,829 34,907 (i.uiil 439 7.2:S2 ii. ;::!> Sβ, 1 Hi S.Tli-l 2,301 175 (i.Tlili 41 li.!l!M 3,042 I "l "2 1) 31 1 I 21 9 253 3 460 16 45 15 50 6 14 1 23 14 668 10 s 65 44 169 74 29 3 42 88 7 5 !) 1 10 1 4 B6 22 2 3 108 7 286 (i 1 3 64 72 81 233 7.734 8,290 70,550 55i; Totals 1,264 L66 6,655 3,245 11,329 1,134 877,543 NORTHERN 1NDU! 3TRIAL DISTRICT. (Excluding Auckland Ci ity, shown sc]>arately.) £ Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing Bacon-curing Bark-milling Blaoksmithing and coaohbuilding Boatbuilding and shipwrighting Boot making and repairing■*.. Bread and email-goods manufacturing Brewing and malting Brick, tile, and pottery making Butchers' small-goods manufacturing Butter and cheese manufacturing and cream-separating Cabinetmaking and upholstering Chemicals and dings manufacturing Clothing-manufacturing Confectionery-making Concrete-pipe making ('vole and motor engineering Dentistry (mechanical) Dress and millinery making.. Dyeing and cleaning Electrical engineering Electfic light and power generating Engineering (general) Feather-dressing Fellmongering, tanning, and boiling-down Firewood-cutting Fish curing and canning Flax-milling I 40 3 88 4 .. 16 270 .. 505 I !• .. 29 60 .. 36 146 .. 195 4 .. 65 9 85 87 .. !)2 96 .. 304 50 .. 137 3 .. 4 1 .. 3 8 3 1 8 "2 I "<; "\2 2 M5 20 775 IS 98 345 69 94 179 400 J 193 7 16 14 46 I 220 13 :>.-, 137 5 il 73 176 45 3 1 ii 8,690 2,362 42.IN2 2,215 3,682 21,766 S.I55 12.21:: 9,128 :iv.ii!i(i 12,663 447 1,119 29 .. 42 29 9 97 27 9 2 2 .. 3 5 7 27 .. 313 21 267 4 71 59 400 6 .: 340 25 23 119 2 2 5 21 3.151 I ,537 '.i.iu:; 83 153 (Kill 32.147 8 .. 17 18 .. 15 15 .. 60 69 .. 74 25 38 65 143 8 12 15 54 1*192 1,180 4,407 24,419 * Includes managers aud others persoua illy engaged iu the work ul , the factory.

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Year ending 31st March, 1914. Numl ir of Persons engaged. Total Wages paid during the o» Tr»de. Total J J Persons .g 3 engaged. | a Year ended 31st March, 1913. 1 Employi irs. , Employees. I Male. 1 'emale. Male. 'emale. NORTHERN INDUSTR IAL DI! JTRICT- — contim led. (Excluding Auckland City, shi >wn sepa .rately.) 49 £ Qas-manufaoturing Honey-packing Jam-making and fruit-preserving Kauri-gum sorting and ]>acking Laundry-work (Europeans) Laundry-work (Chinese) Lime and cement manufacturing Manure-manufacturing .Meat slaughtering and freezing Monumental masonry Musical-instrument making and repairing Oleo and tallow working Paint and varnish manufacturing Photography Picture-framing Plumbing and tinsmithing Printing and publishing Pumice-insulating manufacturing Saddle and harness manufacturing Sail, tent, and cover making Sausage-casing preparing Sawmilling, joinery, and sash and door making Seed-cleaning, &c. .. .. ■ • • Shirt and underclothing making and plain sewing Shell washing and grinding, &c. Soap, oil, starch, and soda-crystals manufacturing Stone-crushing Tailoring Tobacco-preparing.. Watch and jewellery making and repairing Wine-making Wool and hemp dumping 9 "2 58 2 35 20 96 23 341 9 1 7 9 29 15 7 6,71!) 9 9 20 21 9 21 5 11 4 2 332 21 51 362 2,061 2,100 81 52,817 13 4 1 547 4 2 560 8 3 4 :i 1 56,292 869 377 6 17 5 74 58 1 79 3 2 257 "l 7 10 1 l»7 211 20 94 3 18 1,863 'is 61 13 43 6 271 330 21 173 8 20 2,120 V 16 3 61 47 1 72 3 2 208 461 1,323 16,162 24,111 2,059 9,294 634 2,112 204,470 "2 1 20 147 2 19 3 4 h 8 106 186 2 18 1 8 "2 245 1 1 11 126 591 5 38 4 12 1 22 133 2 15 2 4 1,110 8,981 37,858 54 2,298 "880 Totals 1,897 70 5,808 725 8,500 1,764 674,948 TARANAKI INDUST! IAL D: istric: I , . £ Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing Bacon-curing Blacksmithing and coachbuilding Biscuit and confectionery Boot making and repairing Bread and small-goods manufacturing Brewing and malting Brick and tile manufacturing Brush-manufacturing Butchers' small-goods manufacturing Butter and cheese making and jsream-separating Cabinetmaking and upholstering Coopering and boxmaking .*. Chemicals and drugs Cycle-engineering Dentistry (mechanical) Dress and millinery making.. I >\ ring and cleaning Electric light and power generating Engineering I'Vllmongering, tanning, and boiling-down I'irewood-cutting .. Flax-milling Flour-milling Gas-manufacturing Laundry (Europeans) Laundry (Chinese) Meat-freezing Monumental masonry Oil boring and refining Photography Picture-framing Plumbing and tinsmithing Printing and bookbinding 18 2 91 1 20 50 6 7 1 41 85 40 3 6 22 15 10 2 6 14 11 15 2 2 2 2 11 14 1 18 19 176 36 21 267 2 60 123 20 22 5 75 522 124 29 14 68 33 149 3 27 68 36 28 30 4 18 13 12 234 6 29 2 9 102 122 14 3 76 1 20 49 3 4 1 36 154 30 3 5 19 13 44 2 9 12 10 12 2 1 3 5 11 4 1 1 1 6 22 16 1,610 2,422 16,411 1 40 70 14 15 3 34 437 83 26 8 46 6 1 1 "2 1 4,083 8,049 2,286 1,118 153 4,198 46,193 5,703 4,224 039 4,078 1,406 3,314 42 1 12 97 21 54 2.-) 13 28 2 16 1 1 218 5 29 2,346 5,773 2,879 937 1,200 234 1,933 211 78 24,853 493 5 "5 "2 1 7 28 19 "l 52 76 7,770 14,739 2 74 87 16 * Includes managers aud others persol illy engai jed ill the work of tl Lβ factory.

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Year aiding 31st March, 1914. Trade. Number of Pel >ns engaged. Total Wages paid during the Year ended 31st March, 1913. Employers.* Employees. Total Persons engaged. Si Male. Female. I Hale. female. TARANAKI INDUSTRI DIS , 'RICTmlintu £ !-. Saddlery and harness making Sail, tent, and oilskin manufacturing.. Sawmilling, joinery, sash and door making Seed-cleaning and grain-crushing Shirt and underclothing making Stone quarrying and crushing Tailoring Umbrella manufacturing and repairing Watch and jewellery making and repairing Wool-dumping 24 4 SO 8 1 27 7 185 17 2 51 14 245 25 8 18 248 4 19 17 22 4 14 '.) 1 6 56 2 9 3 2,531 260 21 ,765 2,200 400 1,249 11,827 2 6 4 57 2 9 3 U 71 iie 1 4 1 io 14 1,269 1,275 Totals 726 59 1,916 261 2,962 749 212,82' WELLINGTON INDT istria: l dist: ilCT. (Excluding Wellington ' 3ty, sht )wn sept .rately.) 106 32 3 39 8 29 546 2 89 223 75 220 9 22 4 4 5 £ Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing Agricultural-implement manufacturing Asphalt-manufacturing Bacon-curing Basket and wickerware manufacturing Biscuit and confectionery manufacturing Blacksmithing and coachbuilding Boatbuilding and shipwrighting Boot making and repairing Bread and small-goods manufacturing Brewing, malting, bottling, &c. Brick, tile, and drainpipe making Brushware-manufacturing Butchers' small-goods manufacturing Butter and cheese making and cream-separating Cabinetmaking and upholstering Carpentering, joinery, and sash and door making Coopering and box and case making Cycle and motor engineering Chemicals, drugs, and patent-medicine manufacturing .. Dentistry (mechanical) Dress and millinery making Dyeing and cleaning Electrical engineering .. .. Electric light and power generating Electroplating and engraving Engineering (general) Fellmongering, tanning, and wool-scouring Firewood-cutting and grain-crushing Fish-curing Flax-milling Flour-milling Fruit and vegetable preserving Gas-manufacturing .,.. Gun and lock smithing Hat and cap making Hosiery-knitting Laundry-work (Europeans) Laundry-work (Chinese) Lime-burning Manure-manufacturing Marine-stores preparing Meat freezing and preserving .Monumental masonry Oil canning and packing Paint and varnish Photography Picture-framing Plumbing and tinsmithing Printing and bookbinding Rope and twine manufacturing Rugmaking Sail, tent, and oilskin manufacturing.. Saddlery and harness making Sauce, pickles, and condiment making Sausage-casing making Sawmilling, joinery, and sash and door making Seed-cleaning 53 6 6 7 17 276 3 80 148 14 34 "3 168 38 3 45 15 71 822 5 173 379 94 260 47 6 1 7 5 14 260 3 81 143 15 29 11,291 2,879 260 4,380 937 2,958 59,641 131 9,468 24,585 10,552 16,357 "4 130 151 83 163 7 148 6 49 31 7 3 20 2 46 28 32 8 48 9 5 14 1 4 1 12 50 5 4 3 2 iti4 4 114 343 246 567 43 245 6 30 13 3 6 59 1 375 148 36 10 1,008 17 38 141 4 3 1 17 1 18 12 9 4 1 32 609 2 34 "8 13 58 247 496 338 734 50 394 12 111 817 16 g 79 3 421 176 68 18 1,056 26 77 155 o 15 16 109 51 23 16 114 194 75 139 9 112 5 45 200 8 2 22 1 50 27 29 9 60 7 4 17 2 2 1 26 40 4 6 11,645 43,721 26,496 61,140 4,447 19,460 332 4,849 26,778 49 377 7,001 21 39,596 13,750 2,775 1,026 128,343 2,062 5,638 21,617 182 776 561 3,131 149 1,985 1,201 "l 22 (i 9 2 18 15 13 104 65 4 1 6 70 5 3 112 6 "l 2 691 23 16 15 12 304 326 26 3 13 107 7 37 789 33 ie 67 11 2 18 17 "2 897 32 2 34 46 26 408 460 41 6 37 177 29 40 901 41 9 8 1 13 16 11 95 55 2 1 6 68 3 3 94 8 68,382 1,983 1,960 2,563 1,224 29,846 47,229 2,847 500 2,137 12,940 1,408 4,228 97,094 4,514 • Includes managers aud utliers persi luiilly uug gaged ill tl ie work of l the factui ry.

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Year ending 31st March, 1914. Trade. Number of Persons engaged. Total a! Employers. , Employees. Persons s> o engag.d. | g Male. Female. Hale. Female. j ' Total Wages paid during the Year ended 31st March, 1913. ! Male. WELLINGTON INDUST1 UAL E ISTRIC F— contii nued. ) (Excluding Wellington Sewing-machine and small-tool repairing Shirt and underclothing manufacturing Sheep-dip manufacturing Sign and ticket writing Soap and staroh manufacturing Stone quarrying and crushing Tailoring Umbrella making and repairing Watch and jewellery making and repairing Wine-making Wire-working Woollen-milling Wool-dumping City, sh 3 2 ."> 5 149 2 4.1 6 3 1 2.") town sc} 2 13 larately. 1 2 21 12 248 1 65 4 4 21 109 1 5 12 4 3 4 4 31 17 760 15 114 10 8 43 134 2 2 2 :s r< 138 2 II r> 3 1 18 £ 111 169 4,268 502 .->■>. 71<1 627 6,692 372 754 3,719 4.(il2 1 21 Totals 2,396 221 7,773 1,341 11,731 2,439 925,817 MARLBOROUGB END lUSTRI lL DIST ■RICT. £ 1,208 2,906 879 800 I ,667 1,834 954 600 1,602 1,449 1,737 24 2,094 12 I.20S 1,701 12!t 401 5,289 719 983 Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing Blaoksmithing and ooachbuilding Boatbuilding and ship-repairing Hoot making and repairing Bread and small-goods manufacturing Brewing and malting, &e. Brick and tile making Butchers' small-goods manufacturing Butter and cheese making and oream-eeparating Cabinetmaking and upholstering Cyole and motor engineering Dentistry (meohanioal) Dress and millinery making.. Dyeing and cleaning Engineering BeEmongering, tanning, and manure-making I'Vnciiig (iron) manufacturing Firewood-cutting and grain-crushing Flax-milling Flour-milling Gas-manufacturing Laundry-work (Chinese) Meat freezing and preserving Plumbing and tinsmithing Print ing and bookbinding .. Saddlery and harness making Sail and tent manufacturing Sausage-casing manufacturing . Sawmflling, joinery, and sash ami door making Seed-cleaning, &O. • ■., Tailoring .. . ■ Watch and jewellery making and repairing Wool and hemp dumping 3 28 1 8 13 2 3 6 1 4 7 1 1 6 2 7 10 3 is 10 37 li 7 18 15 it 6 14 11 20 14 33 (i 4 101 6 5 1 2 1 47 1 13 Bβ 7 15 32 17 12 12 17 15 27 2 62 2 20 35 6 11 111 9 5 5 60 34 26 0 2 4 179 !) 69 8 12 4 21 1 6 12 3 3 6 7 4 7 1 11 1 5 2 3 4 !> S 2 3 1 5 4 2 1 1 26 3 9 ;j 3 5 1 5 5 2 1 1 1 11 3 2 .1!) 29 21 4 1 3 143 8 26 5 10 2,894 2,203 1,606 484 40 345 20,446 352 3,334 919 765 32 Totals 179 IB 631 84 mm 176 61,574 NELSON INDUS'! 7 2 2 2 38 6 1 :ji 7 7 10 13 10 £ RIAL E iISTRIC T. Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing Asphalt-mixing Bacon-curing Biscuit and confectionery manufacturing Hlacksmithing and coachbuilding Boot making and repairing Boxmaking .. ■ ■ Bread and small-goods manufacturing Brewing, malting, &c. lirick and tile manufacturing Butchers' small-goods manufacturing Butter and cheese manufacturing C'abinetmaking and upholstering • Includes managers aud others persoi 7 3 2 2 47 6 26 7 8 10 14 12 7 24 2 3 13 57 9 2 31 24 14 12 19 29 11 "'.I 31 .-. 5 26 104 15 2 73 31 22 22 Xi . 43 2,139 213 135 1,578 4,241 910 127 3,294 3,095 886 823 1,652 2,842 2 lally 'ii'-'.t jed in the work of t] ie factor; ' m

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Year ending 31st March, 1914. Trade. Emplc Number of Persons engaged. Total Employers.* Employees. Persons engaged. Male. Female. Male. Female. a o So §s Total Wages paid" doling the Year ended 31st March, 1913. Male. Male. Female. nelson industria: lL DIS , ■RICT■OtllillUCI £ '-, Cofiee and spice manufacturing Cycle-engineering Dentistry (mechanical) Dress and millinery making. , Dyeing and cleaning Engineering ■ mid shipwrights Fellmongery, tanning, &c. .. Firewood-cutting and corn-crushing . . Pish preserving and canning Flax-milling Flour-milling Fruit-preserving and jam-making Qas-manufaoturing Laundry-work (Europeans).. Laundry-work (Chinese) Lime-burning Meat freezing and preserving Monumental masonry Photography Picture-framing Plumbing and tinemithing .. .. .. i. Printing and bookbinding .. Saddlery and harness making Sail, tent, and oanvae-goodi making .. Sausage-casing manufacturing Sawmilling, joinery, and sash and door making Tailoring Umbrella making and repairing yinegar-manufaoturing Watch and jewellery making and repairing h r> "1 5 6 14 1 II 1 5 2 1 0 2 I 3 2 3 18 II 8 1 1 106 18 1 1 6 2 2<i 2 2 4 39 II 112 3 39 13 32 3 K4 :s 102 12 14 6 101 28 5 8 7 52 nil 18 4 3 41! 1 88 2 4 18 1 12 4 L'li 1 4 :s 8 I in l ii 2 4 3 2 1 2 4 3 I.", s 8 1 1 74 I.", 1 1 (i I 382 2.083 521 4,516 108 3.173 841 1.35(1 202 I. s.-,.-, 31 I S.00!) I . 755 Ii7l 20 4 92 2 34 7 18 2 73 2 (18 10 2 29 "(i :. I 99 27 2 1 4 34 39 10 3 2 325 38 4 10 12,064 1 .487 17(1 477 238 :i.Ki!i 6 .347 1,040 208 32 23,530 8,281 1 3 12 234 1,300 Totals 397 397 :i.-, 1.086 2(1(1 1.718 36] m:s.s72 WESTLAND INDUS' STRIAL .TRIAL DISTB CT. £ Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing Biscuit and confectionery manufacturing Blacksmithing and coachbuilding Boot making and repairing Bread and email-goods manufacturing Brewing and malting Brick and tile manufacturing Butchers' small-goods manufacturing Butter and cheese making .. Cabinetmaking and upholstering Chemicals and drugs manufacturing .. Cycle and motor engineering Dentistry (mechanical) Dressmaking and millinery .. Dyeing and cleaning Electric power and light generating .. Engineering (general) Fellmongery, wool-scouring, tanning, &o. Fish preserving and canning Flax-milling and rope-making Gas-manufacturing Grain-crushing Laundry-work (Europeans).. Laundry-work (Chinese) Lime-burning Monumental masonry Paint and varnish manufacturing Photography Plumbing and tinsmithing .. Printing and bookbinding .. Saddle and harness making Sail, tent, and cover making Sance, pickles, and condiment making Sawmilling, joinery, and sash and door making Stone quarrying and crushing Tailoring Umbrella making and repairing Watch and jewellery making and repairing 14 2 23 8 49 9 7 29 14 15 1 17 8 4 1 1 8 3 3 II 1 2 5 7 1 2 3 1(1 12 II I 2 98 2 22 1 7 14 2 23 8 49 9 7 29 14 15 1 17 8 4 1 1 8 3 3 II 1 2 5 7 I "2 29 3 79 7 65 34 23 29 25 32 :s 6 43 12 102 15 119 43 30 58 39 48 2 33 17 96 3 2 149 7 31 109 22 2 21 7 12 2 27 8 47 8 0 23 14 12 1 16 0 22 1 I 9 2 (1 12 3 1 4 (i 2,976 10,048 750 7,885 5.100 2,553 2,717 1.802 :i.7iii 52 1. 143 64] 2,278 1 1 20 Lβ 2 2 1 1 141 4 24 98 2] 7 70 1 364 Hi. 348 ITU 379 2,347 :i.ii!M 4 4 12 733 1 2 3 HI 12 II I 2 98 2 22 1 7 1 6 2 7 9 44 89 12 4 S HIV 7 IS.", 3 17 1 2 3 13 II l> 1 I SI 3 22 I (i 53 549 141 2,831 7.078 422 225 437 70.1171 140 11 ,:i.-)!i 52 I . 4(>4 1 r> I 28 49 ■ (i 3 4 519 •"> 02 27 2 "l 101 1 io Totals 4ir, 4ir, 26 1 .332 241 2,011 3! I! I I 111. 75(1 • Includes manager* and others persona ally enga lallv cngai [ed in the work .ii t ic (aotory.

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Trade. Year ending 31st March, 1914. Total Number of Persons engaged. Wages paid *o u- during the Total u -2 Year ended Imployers. , Employees. Persons .do 81st March, engaged. S 0 1913. SS tie. Female. Male. Female. Employers.* Male. Female. CANTERBURY INDUSTRIA rSTRIA L DIS r RIOT. (Excluding Christehurch City, she Sty, she iwn sep :ately.) £ Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing .. .. 23 Agricultural-implement mannfaoturing .. .. 2 Asphalt-making .. .. . . .. .. 1 Bacon-curing .. .. .. .. .. 3 Bagmaking Basket and wickerware manufacturing .. .. 2 Biscuit and confectionery making .. .. .. 3 Blacksmithing and ooachbuilding .. .. .. 205 . Bool making and repairing .. .. .. .. 38 Bread and small-goods manufacturing. .. .. 79 Brewing and malting .. .. .. .. F6 Brick, tile, and pottery manufacturing .. .. 18 Butchers' small-goods manufacturing .. .. 65 Butter and cheese making and cream-separating .. 65 Cabinetmaking and upholstering .. .. .. 19 Coopering Cycle and motor engineering .. .. .. 54 Dentistry (mechanical) .. .. .. .. 15 Dressmaking and millinery .. .. .. .. 10 Dyeing and cleaning .. .. .. .. 1 Electrical engineering .. .. .. .. 2 Electric light and power generating .. .. . . 2 Engineering (general) .. .. .. .. 13 Fellmongery, wool-scouring, tanning, &e. .. . . 25 Fibrous-plaster working .. .. .. .. 3 Firewood-cutting and grain-orushing .. .. 6 Flax-milling and rope-making .. .. .. 6 Flour and oatmeal milling .. .. .. .. 23 Gas-manufacturing .. .. .. .. 5 Hosiery-manufacturing .. .. .. .. 2 Laundry-work (Europeans) .. .. .. .. I Laundry-work (Chinese) .. .. .. .. 5 Lime-burning .. .. .. .. 1 Manure-mixing .. .. .. .. .. 1 Meat-freezing .. .. .. .. .. 4 Monumental masonry .. .. .. .. 2 Oil and grease manufacturing .. .. .. 1 Paint and varnish mixing .. .. .. .. 4 Photography .. . • • • .. . • 10 Picture-frame making .. .. .. .. 9 Plumbing and tinsmithing .. .. .. .. 34 Printing and bookbinding .. .. .. .. 21 Elope and twine manufacturing .. .. .. 2 Saddlery and harness manufacturing.. .. .. 41 Sail, tent, and cover making .. .. . . 2 Sausage-casing manufacturing .. .. .. 4 Sawmilling, joinery, and sash and door making . . 126 Seed-cleaning and grain-crushing .. .. .. 9 Sewing and other machine repairing, &c. .. .. 2 Shirt and underclothing makmg and plain sewing Stone quarrying and crushing .. . . .. 2 Tailoring .. • • ■ • • • • • •>•' Watch and jewellery making and repairing .. .. 15 Wool-dumping .. .. .. .. .. 4 Woollen-milling .. .. .. .. .. 2 23 2 1 3 1 23 [5 N 13 47 7 5 6 2 14 6 61] 101 205 27 116 124 167 86 2 178 39 475 3 21 4 65 255 6 14 mi 128 27 10 26 ii l> 73 till 7 2 9 20 21 127 1 33 25 94 8 27 409 44 4 12 17 336 36 13 1(17 I'll 2 1 5 I 2 3 181 38 78 6 14 54 81 21 1 48 14 84 1 2 2 11 25 3 5 7 20 5 3 8 4 1 4 4 2 1 4 10 9 30 17 2 40 2 5 96 11 2 5 4 51 16 4 2 2,172 861 182 398 120 1,144 82 29.11;-,:! 5,661 I :i. 725 2.701 10,681 6,930 8,888 6,154 340 10.910 2,017 16,969 "2 2 3 206 38 79 re 18 65 65 19 10 3 306 55 123 21 98 59 92 64 2 124 14 2 3 3 5 "7 1 "3 2 54 15 19 1 2 2 13 25 3 6 c> 23 6 2 1 5 1 1 4 2 1 4 10 9 34 21 2 41 2 4 126 9 2 67 1 "2 8 1!) 2 52 230 3 8 93 105 22 1 2 1 5 72 415 5 1 5 1 11 93 103 23 53 3 23 283 36 2 10 389 1 "5 16 2,116 215 (i.700 16,213 48 970 6,368 14,218 3,318 220 936 80 (120 6,263 31,159 (ill!) 138 424 403 858 9.146 13,610 2,604 6,604 7:s7 976 28.325 2,888 2 "7 1 "9 "3 6 "7 223 188 20,024 1,571 1,330 13,837 2 .-,(1 15 4 2 ":i 15 95 21 9 85 i82 80 Totals .. .. .. .. 1,063 1,063 105 2,902 721 4,791 1,070 311,307 OTAGO DISTRICT (Excluding Dunedin City, showi i separately.) £ Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing .. .. 7 Agricultural-implement manufacturing .. .. 1 Bacon-curing .. .. .. .. .. 7 Bisouit and confectionery manufacturing .. .. 1 Blacksmithing and coachbuilding .. .. .. 210 Boot making and repairing .. .. .. 16 Bread and small-goods making .. .. .. f>2 Brewing, malting, &c. .. .. . . .. 1 Brick, tile, pipe, and pottery making.. .. .. 5 .Butchers' small-goods manufacturing .. .. 2!) i 155 24 3 98 13 54 29 I 14 3 14 2 366 40 153 14 (11 58 5 1 6 i 1 ll'l l<) 58 2 :i 27 75ft "490 07 24,577 2,404 10,614 l ,506 7,462 2.204 "2 • Includes managers and others personally en| [aged in the work i the facti try.

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Number of Persons engaged. Year ending 31st March, 1914. i 11 Total Wa Res paid during the Year ended 31st March, 1913. Trade. Employers.* Employees. Total Persons engaged. Male. Female. Hale. I Female. s« — % OTAGO 1)1 SI ■i:kt ■continue I. (Excluding Danedin Ci ;y, shoi 'n separi itely.) £ Butter and cheese making and cream -separating Cabinetmaking and upholstering Chemicals and drugs manufacturing Cycle and motor engineering Dentistry (mechanical) Dress and millinery making.. Electric-light generating, &c. Engineering (general) I'YIlmongery, wool-scouring, Sec. Firewood-outting Fish-preserving Flax-milling Flour-milling Gas-manufacturing Laundry-work (Europeans).. Laundry-work (Chinese) Lime and cement manufacturing Manure-manufacturing Meat freezing and preserving Monumental masonry Paint and varnish mixing Photography Picture-framing Plumbing and tinsmithing Printing, bookbinding, &0. Saddle and harness making Sausage-casing preparing .. .. Sawmilling, joinery, and sash and door making Seed-cleaning and grain-orushing Shirt and underclothing making .. .. Stone quarrying and crashing Tailoring Twine-making Watch and jewellery making and repairing Wool-dumping Woollen-nulling 37 4 1 13 5 II 2 4 ."> 4 I 17 17 2 3 2 7 2 1 3 2 3 5 14 14 19 1 04 6 34 06 7 4 34 5 4 23 21 6 1 72 59 8 3 133 103 11 5 47 13 ITS 6 27 26 10 2 89 7(i 10 8 2 81 3 73 4 .-) 12 11 54 87 :ss 11 250 14 45 3 2 12 r> 37 3 4 6 3 1 12 10 2 3 2 ."> 2 1 2 2 3 5 13 13 16 1 .->.", r> 7,325 714 350 2,225 704 5,076 475 2,599 988 118 104 3,466 8,322 1,250 79 ":{ 2 74 I 72 I 3 4 0 40 66 17 10 186 8 ".-> 7,705 15 5,245 120 203 330 l>0!) 3.247 8,704 1,794 .->!IS IS. 1137 990 "s 2 31 18 4:i 71 21 146 f> 25 I .1127 8,144 l() 1 2 7 1 110 1 18 2 248 0 1 2 .->:!4 400 20,415 i36 Totals 044 41) 1,366 :SG4 2,414 558 163,504 SOUTHLANE £ 1)1 STR tCT. Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing Agricultural-implement manufacturing Bacon-curing Biscuit and confectionery manufacturing Blacksmithing and coachbuikling Blindmaking .. • • » Boatbuilding Boot making and repairing . ? Bread and small-goods making Brewing, malting, &c. Brick, tile, pipe, and pottery making Butchers' small-goods manufacturing Butter and cheese making and cream-separating Cabinetmaking and upholstering Chemicals and drugs manufacturing Coffee and spier grinding Coopering Cycle-engineering Dentistry (mechanical) Dressmaking and millinery Dyeing and cleaning Electrical engineering Electric power and light generating .. Electroplating and engra\ ing Engineering (general) .. • • Fellmongery, wool-scouring, tanning, &c. Fish preserving and canning Firewood-cutting Flax-milling and rope-making Flour-milling * Includes managers and others persoi 8 5 3 2 11!) 4 30 62 4 ll> :>!) I!) "l 25 04 5 17 100 2 05 81 18 77 48 112 88 10 "l 12 33 69 8 36 285 2 6 107 146 22 93 84 151 107 10 6 2 2 98 1 2 29 54 4 10 30 r>; i 20 7,466 6,634 468 2.138 15,202 12 200 7,406 10,126 2,442 8,92] r>. 124 8,736 0.121 "3 l i 31 13 6 3 2 1 4 20 15 7 8 43 2 "it 5 I 75 12 6 1 1 8 116 87 12 13 242 19 io 301 6 2 106 35 300 4 2 2 12 136 102 19 21 285 21 1 1 24 12 48 2 1 1 2 14 10 7 9 :s:s 2 795 83 6,607 1,56!) 12,630 162 420 13,479 9,291 786 S46 11,868 2,621 illy engm ged in thi work of ie factor;

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Trade. Year ending 31at March, 19H. Number of Persons engaged. - " Total a I Employers • Employees. Persons o o engaged. | g Male. Female. Male. : Female. Year ending 31st March, 19H. Total Wages paid during the Year ended 31st March, 1913. Employers. , SOUTHLAND D 8TRIC 1 — contim ',ed. £ Gas-manufacturing Gun and lock smithing Hosiery-knitting Jam-making Laundry-work (Europeans) .. Laundry-work (Chinese) Leadlight-rnanufacturing Manure-mixing Meat slaughtering and preserving, &c. Milk-condensing Monumental masonry Musical-instruments making and repairing Paint and varnish manufacturing Paper-manufacturing Photography Picture-frame making Plumbing and tinsmithing Printing and bookbinding Rabbit-packing, &c. Rope and twine making Saddle and harness making Sail, tent, and cover making Sausage-oaring making .. .. .. Sawmilling, joinery, and sash and door making Seed-cleaning, &e. Shirt and underclothing making Soap-manufacturing Stone quarrying and crushing Tailoring .. Wire-working (mattresses, &c.) Watch and jewellery making and repairing Wool-dumping Woollen-manufacturing I 2 1 2 2 12 1 2 5 5 :s 1 1 1 6 8 30 23 7 1 21 2 1 106 6 24 3 2 1 1 1 21 315 34 13 8 2 42 1 7 109 125 21 19 36 r> 3 598 38 "e 3 6 * * io n i 15 I 1 17 184 25 .5 11 13 2 23 320 39 16 9 3 53 18 16 139 163 28 20 57 8 4 704 44 19 3 9 261 3 22 22 1 2 1 2 3 7 1 3 6 1 2 4 1 1 7 7 27 23 5 2 20 2 1 103 9 1 1 1 34 1 11 3 3,690 216 168 373 363 75 "3 1,465 25,974 4,704 1,477 169 365 5.1(12 492 196 10,500 16,291 082 942 3,873 493 415 72,921 3,882 634 486 1,065 16,918 294 1,283 1,994 "2 2 8 85 2 11 20 1 1 :;•> 1 11 2 6 Totals 806 62 2,923 542 4,333 787 322,441 * Includes managers and others persoi illy engi ged in the work of ;he factory.

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Tear ending 31st March, 1914. Trade. Employers. , Number of Persons engaged. Employees. •So! Total s ° Persons .0 3 >ngaged. |« Total Wages paid during the Year ended 31st March. 1913. Male. Female. Hale, j Female. Food Trades — Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing Bacon and ham curing Baking-powder manufacturing Biscuit and confectionery manufacturing Bread and small-goods manufacturing Brewing, malting, and bottling Butchers' small-goods manufacturing Butter and cheese making Coffee and spice grinding .. >. Fish curing, preserving, and canning Flour and oatmeal milling Fruit-preserving and jam-making Honey-packing Margarine-manufacturing.. Meat slaughtering and freezing, &c. Rabbit preserving and packing Sauce, pickles, and condiment manufacturing Sausage-casing preparing Sugar-refining Tea blending and packing Wine-manufacturing 246 51 4 110 952 108 637 559 15 66 78 38 5 11 37 5 9 606 220 35 669 1,530 947 652 1,631 51 167 382 274 25 2 8 623 82 6 3 32 8 4 6 206 882 273 47 1,413 2,601 1,061 1,297 2,231 74 237 466 520 2 6 4,345 4!) 249 187 294 169 16 215 52 4 82 903 106 562 795 14 61 65 34 1 3 41 9 30 21 1 38 8 £ 68,665 26,317 3,189 93,186 186,270 128,267 66,547 184,008 5,585 16,783 49,386 33,673 " 1 2 4 52 12 37 21 5 40 10 2 2 4,280 37 111 166 289 107 6 13 '.)!! 111 407,238 2,123 15,018 17,354 46,376 8,302 491 '22 Clothing Trades — Corset and belt making Dress and millinery making Dyeing, cleaning, and feather-dressing Fur-goods manufacturing Hat and cap making Hosiery-knitting Quilt and rug making Ready-made-clothing manufacturing Shirt and underclothing manufacturing Tailoring .. Umbrella making and repairing Woollen-milling 1 280 51 4 24 15 8 50 34 864 17 23 1 1,033 12 1 5 11 1 71 43 7 68 8 12 441 91 1,752 15 727 3 5,133 48 7 176 102 2 2,090 971 2,884 50 1,062 6 6,517 154 1!) 273 136 22 2,583 1,154 5,550 89 1,812 2 1,082 47 4 26 20 6 45 88 797 17 10 221 214,901 4,907 1,315 17,543 4,913 1,396 165,939 56,183 385,973 4,003 160,753 2 58 50 7 Leather Trades — Boot and shoe manufacturing and repairing Portmanteau and leather-goods making Saddlery, harness, and whip manufacturing Tanning, currying, and leather-dressing Whip-thong making 584 19 372 14 5 3 1,835 56 696 184 10 718 15 58 3,140 90 1,126 198 15 527 14 340 11 5 250,239 6,159 77,364 24,155 638 Iron and Metal Trades — Agricultural-implement manufacturing Blacksmithing and coachbuilding .. Cutlery-grinding and saw and tool repairing Cycle and motor engineering, sewing and other machine repairing, &c. Engineering, iron, copper, and brass founding, electrical engineering, and range and stove making Gun and lock smithing and sporting-goods manufacturing Plumbing, gasfitting, and tinsmithmg Tram-car building and repairing Wire-work (mattress, &c, making) Miscellaneous small trades 37 1,533 11 547 838 2,912 9 1,096 875 4,445 20 1,646 41 1,260 8 450 99,200 307,376 758 98,834 3 450 4,342 15 4,807 351 458,269 14 23 3 40 14 2,882 624 8 29 10 "l 2,049 166 142 73 9 2 6 2,682 174 174 8'J 520 7 24 10 206,651 26,029 15,145 8,641 Shipwriohtino Trades — Ship, scow, boat, and yacht building and repairing .. 77 1,014 1,091 (il 72,709 Woodworking Trades — Billiard-table manufacturing Blindmaking Cabinetmaking and upholstering Coopering and boxmaking Sawmilling, sash and door making, and joinery Wood carving and turning .. ■ • . • • 5 7 528 33 1,539 38 "l 5 31 21 2,080 192 7,634 44 7 131 24 7 3 36 36 2,744 249 9,180 85 3 7 462 35 1,241 31 4,740 2,431 215,996 22,987 869,521 3,771 Chemical and Treatment of By-product Trades— Candle, soap, starch, and soda manufacturing Chemicals, drugs, and patent-medicine manufacturing Ink-manufacturing Manure-manufacturing Oil canning and packing Paint, varnish, and glue making Sheep-dip manufacturing Wax-vesta manufacturing • • LL 36 69 1 20 10 46 3 2 1 245 235 4 195 23 66 1 21 31 107 312 412 5 215 33 115 4 163 29 63 1 28 9 39 2 2 31,385 30,880 683 17,624 2,860 7,438 91 10,509 3 140 • Includes managers and others personally engaged in the work of the lactory.

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Year ending 31st March, 1914. Trade. Number of Persons engaged. Employers. , Employees Male. Female. Male. Fen Employees. Total ss-2 Persona x> o sngaged. g g Total Wages paid during the Year ended 31st March, 1913. Male. Female. Jrnamental and Minor Art Trades— Electroplating and engraving Glass bevelling, silvering, &c. Lapidary-work .. Leadlightwnaking Ornamental sign and ticket writing Picture framing and gilding 39 0 4 12 24 100 34 00 1 47 53 123 2 75 66 5 59 83 251 27 5 2 12 21 !)2 £ 3,294 5,004 40 5,520 0,266 I I ,<>!)» 2 20 Stone, Clay, and Allibd Trades — Asphalt, and concrete-block and pipe making Brick, tile, and pottery manufacturing Fibrous-plaster working .. Lime and cement manufacturing Monumental masonry I'11 mice grinding and working Stone quarrying and crushing 29 100 24 2!) 03 1 Bβ 48 1,254 82 587 188 20 401 "2 77 1,422 106 (>li> 2.-,:: 21 407 23 123 17 22 42 1 7(i 4,4'.)8 138,484 9,209 82,943 2.->.:i'.ts 2. (15! I Iβ, 030 2 LiuHT, Heat, and Power Producing and Distributing— Eleotrio light and power generating Gas, coke, and coal-tar manufacturing 298 802 :s.->i S.JI Hi.Ill H4.::!i2 52 49 1 00 59 Miscellaneous Trades — Ammunition and fireworks manufacturing Asbestos-goods manufacturing B&gmaking (calico, flax, and jute) Basket, wickerware, and perambulator making Brush and broom manufacturing Cork-cutting Cigar and cigarette making and tobacco-cutting Dentistry (mechanical) KrIlmongery and wool-scouring Kiirwood and chaff-cutting Flax-milling Hair-working (wigs, &c.) Kauri-gum sorting and packing Laundry-work (Europeans) Laundry-work (Chinese) Oil boring and refining Optical and scientific instrument manufacturing Organ-building Paper-milling, paper-bag making, and cardboard-box making Photography Printing, bookbinding, and stationery-manufacturing Rag-sorting and marine-stores preparing Rope and twine manufacturing Sails, tents, flags, and oilskin manufacturing Seed cleaning and packing, &c. Watch and jewellery making and repairing Wool and hemp dumping, r 6 2 2 4.") 14 2 14 201 142 172 218 12 40 77 260 "l 5 "9 137 20 0 8 Iβ] 107 1 14 181 1.171 197 1,793 3 150 322 l<) 2!l 1.-. 61 158 7.") 54 17 41 17 154 28 040 2 107 8 71 223 182 3 45 mil 1,313 :ii>!i 2,011 52 190 1,170 281 29 29 100 327 3 2 (i 38 10 1 14 230 120 142 200 17 27 152 200 1 10 29 19 0,778 862 3,714 13,1)04 12,955 01 . 1,805 27,539 121,368 16,147 185,394 1,982 18,467 44,495 I..5111 13 39 16 1 2,440 8,178 24,274 0 147 118 420 23 14 44 05 247 00 15 8 80 3,020 75 199 137 254 498 331 Kid 839 7 II 121 14 13 ;;7!i 4,287 Kir, 224 ;so.-> 333 758 391 121 332 19 10 45 74 227 56 lli.27S 424,449 4,7!J4 19,539 20,804 26,237 52,880 24,837 3 Total 14,083 1,457 54,055 17,322 87,517 13,409 0,835,49'J ♦ Includes managers and others personally engaj ;cd In tbe work of the factory Note. —There were 13,308 factories registered last year, .ccounted for by the fact that in several registered factories mi ailoriug, dressmaking, and boot-repairing. The nui ire that nber of factories . one distinct tr. shown above 1 kIc is carried 01 13,469) is 1, such as

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Table 5.—Schedule of the Rates of Wages and the Hours of Labour in Factories and Shops in the Four Chief Industrial Districts fixed by Industrial Agreements and by Awards of the Court of Arbitration, in Force on the 31st March, 1914.

Trade or Occupation. Northern Industrial District. Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial District. Otago and Southland Industrial District. Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing Northern Industrial District [except 0*8borne). —Foremen, 55s. and 60s. ; cor-dial-makers, 55s. and 60s. ; machine bottlers, 50s. : packers, wirers, bottlers, bottle-washers, and general labourers, 48s. ; youths, 10s. to 35s. Hours of labour, 49 per week summer and 44 per week in winter. Foremen and cordial-makers, 60s. ; machine bottlers and beer-bottlers, 50s. ; bottle-washers, 45s. ; casual labour, Is. ljd. per hour; youths, 15 to 21 years, 15s. to '.)'><. per week ; improvers at machine bottling —first three months 35s. per week, second three months 45s. per week. Hours of labour — summer, 49 per week ; winter. 44 per week. Head curer. 60s. per week ; slaughtermen, eutters-up, and rollers, Is. 2Jd. per hour ; scaldere, Is. ljd. per hour ; eellannen. lard-makers, and Btoreh&nds, Is. Ofd. per hour; other workers. Is. per hour ; boys and youths, 14 to 20 years, 12s. to 30s. per week. Hour.-* of labour, 48 per week. Journeymen, Is. 2d. per hour per week of 44 hours ; apprentices, 5 years, 5s. to 30s. Bacon-curing See Butchers' small-goods manufacturing Basketware, rattan, and wickerwork manufacturing Auckland City. — Journeymen rattan and wicker workers, Is. 2kl. per hour; improvers, 36e. pel week; apprentices, four years, 7s. 6d. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per wick. Biscuit and confectionery making Confectioners in charge, 60s. per week ; others, 50s. per week; male assistants, six years, 8s. to 42s. per week ; fomale assistants, five years, 7s. to 20s. per week (also piece rates) ; bis-cuit-bakers, (i()s. ; assistants, 40s. to 50s. per week : apprentices, live years. 6s. to 30s. per week; improvers — first year 35s., second yoar 42s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. BlacksmitUing and farriery Farriers and general smiths, Is. 4d. per hour ; floormen, Is. ljd. per hour; apprentices, live years, 10s. to 37s. (id. per week ; piecework, shoe - turning only, 3s. per dozen for heeled shoes, 2s. 6d. per dozen for plain shoes. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Farriers and general smiths, Is. 4d. per hour ; floormen, Is. 1 Jd. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 32s. Gd. per week. Hours of labour, 46 per week. Wellington Country Award. —Farriers and general smiths, Is. 3d. per hour ; floormen, Is. Ofd. per hour ; apprentices, six years, 7s. 6d. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. See Shipbuilding, &e. Journe3'men, 60s. per week ; casual labour, Is. 4Jd. per hour ; apprentices, six years, 10s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Farriers, Is. 5d. per hour; floormen, Is. 2d. per hour; apprentice-, five years, 10s. to 37s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. Boilermaking Bookbinding See Shipbuilding, &c. Journeymen, 60s. per week; casual labour, Is. 4Jd. per hour ; apprentices, six years, 10s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. See Shipbuilding, &c. See Shipbuilding, &e. Journeymen binders and paper-rulers, 60s. per week ; cutters, 30s. to 55s. ; casual labour, Is. 4Jd. per hour; apprentices, six years, 10s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week.

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

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Butchers' small-goods manufacturing per hour; junction stickers and moulders and stickers, Is. 2d. per hour ; pipe - kiln burners, lOJd. per hour; finishers, Is. 3d. per hour; assietante, La per hour; competent burners in Hoffman kiln, Is. per hour ; other workers over the age of 22 years, l>. Ojd. per hour or 45s. per week; boys — 10 years 20s. to 30b. per week, 20 to 22 years Is. per hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Shopman —first 70s. per week, second 60s. per week; ofdermen, ols. per week ; general hands, ols. per week ; small-goods man —first 70s. per week, second ols. per week-; cellarman and packer —first 60s. per week, second 51s. per week ; bacon-curer —first 60s. per week, second 51s. per week; head, feet, and tripe hand, boners, hawkingcarter, 51s. per week ; drivers —one horse 48s. per week, two or more horse> .">2s. pel week ; youths, 15s. to 30s. per week ; from ago 14 to age 21, if boarded by employer, a deduction of 7s. 6d. per week ; casual labour, 10s. per day for ordinary days, Saturdays 12s. Hours, as fixed by Shops and Offices Act. Preserving department —Head preserver, 70s. per week ; preservers, boners, and tinsmiths, Is. lid. per hour ; all other hands, Is. Ofd. per hour. Hoots, 48 per week. Gisborne. District. —First shopman, 70s. per week ; second shopman, 60s. per week; small-goods men, 70s. per week ; hawking-carters, 60s. ; order - men, 52s. 6d. to 57s. 6d. per week ; youths, 17s. 6d. to 40s. per week; casual labour (inside) Is. 6d. per hour, (outside) Is. 3d. per hour. Hours of labour, 52 per week. Country Award. —Weekly hands, 50s. per week ; oaeoa] hands, Is. 4d. per hour ; youths, 12s. 6d. to 30s. per week. (Meat allowance not exceeding in value os., or extra in lieu of meat, to be paid to each worker, except youths and casuals.) Hours of labour, as fixed by Shops and Offices Act. Whole District [except Wanganui). —First shopman, 70s. per week; second shopman, 60s. per week ; man in charge of hawking-cart, ols. per week ; boys, 17s. 6d. to 30s. per week ; first smallgoods hand, 70s. per week ; riders-out, 32s. 6d. ; other hands, ols. ; casual labour, Is. 3d. per hour and found, or paid Is. 6d. per day extra ; youths, 17s. 6d. to 30s. per week, according to age. (All adult workers entitled to 5s. per week in addition to ordinary wages in lieu of meat allowance formerly prevailing.) Hours of labour, as fixed by Shops and Offices Act. Wanganui.— -Shopman —first 60s., second 50s. ; small - goods man —first tiOs., second 50s. ; hawking-carter, 50s. ; general hands, 50s. ; order-carters — first year 40s., second year 45s., third year 50s. ; rider-out, 32s. 6d. ; casual hands, 1 s. 3d. per hour; boys and youths, 16 to 21 years of age, 17s. (id. to 30s. per week ; married men, meat allowance of 5s. worth per week, or 5s. cash in lieu thereof. Hours of Labour, as fixed by the Shops and Offices Act. Hawke's Bay and Manawatu same as for Wanganui. 3s. 9d. per 1,000 lor square and 5s. 6d. per 1,000 for fancy bricks ; off-bearers from wire - cut machines, 10£d. per 1,000 ; off-bearers of fancy bricks to be paid day-work ; minimum wage for workers over the age of 21 years, Is. per hour ; boys — 14 years to 20 years of age 12s. to 24s. per week, 20 to 21 years 5s. per day of 8 hours. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Christchurch City. —First shopman, 70s. Otaijo. —First shopman, 70s. per week ; per week ; second shopman, 60s. per second shopman, 60s. per week ; man week ; first small-goods man, 70s. per in charge of hawking-carts, and other week ; man in charge of order or hands, 51s. ; boys, 15s. to 30s. per hawking carts, general hands, and week ; first small-goods man, 70s. per others, 51s. per week ; casual labour, week ; casual labour, 10s. per ordinary 10s. 6d. per ordinary day, 11s. 6d. per day, 12s. for Saturday. Saturday ; youths, 12s. 6d. to 30s. per Southland Award. —First shopman, if week. solely engaged as such, 60s. per week ; Country Award. —Adult workers, 50s. second shopman. 50s. per week ; smallper week ; youths, 12s. 0d. to 30s. goods man, if solely engaged as such, per week. Hours of labour, as fixed 60s. per week ; hawking-carter, 50s. per by Shops and Offices Act. week ; order - carter, 40s. per week ; general hands, 50s. per week ; slaughterman, if solely engaged as such, 60s. per week ; slaughterman and wagoner, 50s. per week ; assistant slaughterman, 50s. per week; assistant slaughtermanwagoner, 50s. per week ; casual labour, Is. 3d. per hour ; youths, 15s. to 30s. per week. (Meat allowance not ex- • ceeding in value 5s., or 5s. extra in lieu of meat to be paid to each worker, except youths and casuals.) Hours of labour, as fixed by Shops and Offices Act.

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

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Coppersmithing Creameries and dairy factories See Tinsmithing See See Tinsmithing See 1 lnsmitmng Creameries. —Rates of wages per week : Manager of first - class creamery, 57s. 6d.; manager of second - class creamery, 50s. ; manager of third-class creamery, 42s. 6d. ; manager of fourthclass creamery, 37s. 6d. ; assistants at first-class creameries, £1. Dairy Factories. — Rates of wages per week : Testing and culture-making — head of department, 65s. ; other workers, 40s. Churning and buttermaking —head of department, 65s. ; first assistant, 55s. ; other workers. 42s. Packing department —head of department, 65s. ; first assistant, 52s. 6d. ; other workers, 42s. Creamreceiving and can - washing —head of department, 51s. ; other workers, 42s. Boys and youths, from 12s. 6d. to 35s. per week ; first engine - driver and handy man, 55s. ; second engine-driver and handy man, 48s. Hours of labour, 52 per week during summer and 44 per week during winter. Journeymen, Is. 3d. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 35s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Journeymen over 22 years of age, Is. 1 Jd. per hour ; boys and youths for first four years, from 10s. to 25s. per week. In the fifth year, or on attaining 21 years of age, 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. C'hristchurch and Timaru. —Journeymen, Is. 4£d. per hour (chargemen, Is. per day extra); apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week ; improvers —first year lid. per hour, second year Is. 3d. per hour. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Iron-moulders, same as Northern DisDistrict. Boilermakers, see Shipbuilding, &c. Range-workers, range fitters and polishers, Is. 3d. per hour ; body-fitters ' and machinists, Is. Id. per hour ; boys, six years, 7s. 6d. to 36s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Fitters, &c, same conditions as Northern District. Brass-finishers, Is. 4d. per hour ; apprentices, 7s. 6d. to 27s. 6d. per week for See Tinsmithing. Cheese-factory managers : per annum, 1st class, £350; 2nd, £325; 3rd, £275; 4th, £250; 5th, £225; 6th, £200; 7th, £180; 8th, £170; 9th, £160; 10th, £150; 11th, 65s. per week; 12th, 60s. per week. Free house of four rooms provided. 4 "» ■ Journeymen, Is. 3d. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 35s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Curriers Cycle building and repairing Electrical workers Excluding Gisborne. —.Journeymen electricians, Is. 4£d. per hour (chargemen, Is. per day extra) ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. Journeymen, Is. 4Jd. per hour (chargemen, Is. per day extra) ; battery-work, Is. per day extra; assistants, five years, 7s. 6d. to 35s. per week; improvers —first year 9d. per hour, second year Is. per hour. Hours of labour, 45 per week. Iron and brass moulders, same as Northern District. Fitters, &c, and Union Steamship Company, same conditions as Northern District. Boilermakers, see Shipbuilding, &c. Journeymen (including linesmen), Is. 4|d. to Is. 6d. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. Engineering Fitters, blacksmiths, coppersmiths, turners, patternmakers, motor mechanics, millwrights, milling-machinists, and toolmakers, Is. 4£d. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Special provisions as to Union Steamship Company and United Repairing Company —minimum wage to commence at Is. 3d. per hour and to be increased up to Is. 6d. according to merits of tradesman : hours of labour, 8 per day, Iron and brass moulders Iron-moulders, same as Northern District. Brass-finishers —Journeymen, Is. 4d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week; improvers —lid. per hour first year, afterwards journeymen's rate. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Range fitters and polishers, Is. 3d. per hour ; body - fitters and machinists, Is. Id. per hour; boys, five years, 7s. 6d. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week.

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Tnda or OcoupiNon. Northirn Industrie District. Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial District. Otago and Southland Industrial District. Kngineering — continued. Is. 4£d. per hour, except machine moulders, Is. 3d. per hoar; improvers, lid. to Is. 3d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. In Ohinemuri Gold-mines. —Competent tradesmen, 11s. per day; youths (five years' service), 4s. to 8s. per day. Hours of labour, 4o per week. Wool-classers (greasy), Is. 3d. per hour ; pullers, curers, pelt - fleshers, skinclassers, scudders, and painters, Is. Id. per hour; head tanner, Is. 2d. per hour; head rollerman, Is. ljd. per hour ; chrome-workers, grainers, and machine shavers, Is. 2d. per hour; soap, starch, candle, and oil workers, Is. per hour (if worked not less than six months at trade); nightwatehman, 50s. per week of seven shifts of 1 1 hours each ; general labourers and casual hands, Is. per hour; youths —12s. 6d. to 20s. per week up to 18 years of age, over 18 years and up to 21 years of age 7Jd. to 9d. per hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Beamsmen — Journeymen, Is. 3d. per hour; improvers, Is. per hour, for two years ; apprentices, three years, 20s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Gisbonie. —Boners, graders, pelt-classers. chamber hands, fitters, moulders, and blacksmiths, Is. 4Jd. per hour; trimmers, blood and manure hands, painters, tlcshers, scudders, wool-driers, dollymen, wool - scourers, and woolwringers, tinsmiths, coopers, limeburners, and tallymen on chute, Is. 3d.; general cooling-floor hands, gut-house hands, and truckmen, paunch-cutters, hide-washers, beef slaughtermen's assistants, wool - pressers, and general floor hands, skin-truckers, piece or pie men, and preserving-department workers (other than tinsmith), Is. ljd. per hour ; greasers and firemen, 10s. per shift. Boys and youths — 15 and rive years. Hours of labour, 47 ]kt Fitters, &c, and Union Steamship Coinweek, panv, same conditions as Northern District. Fellmongering, tanning, and freezing-works employees « Pullers, ltd. to IOd. per dozen : learners, tid. to 7d. per dozen : Manawatu Freezing- works employees (Long burn) — Rates respectively : Pullers, (id. to 7d. per dozen; woolwashers, Is. per hour; painters, l>. per hour; trimmers, lljd. per hour; dollymen. Is. to Is. ljd. per hour; skin-truckers, lojd. per hour; piepickers. 7s. per day; green hands, 10£d. per hour ; wool-driers, Is. per hour ; wool-wringers. 1 s. \>er hour ; ; pelt-washers, lljd. to Is. per 100; wool-pressing, Iβ. per bale; fleshing, 2Jd. per dozen ; scudders, Is. per hour : pelt-curers. Is. per hour : trotlyman, Is. per hour : benehman, 10'd. per hour ; kidney-boy — if man 7s. per day. if boy 12s. 6d. to 35s. per week (from 14 i to 21 years of age); paunch-cutter, lljd. per hour; foreman, Is. per hour ; wheels, 10£d. per hour ; skins - examiner, Is. per hour; cooling-room, lOJd. per hour ; grader, Is. per hour ; freezing-chamber hands, Is. 3d. per i hour; loading-out, Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. ; per hour; firemen, 56s. per week; j greaser, 56s. per week of 50 hours ; bone-mill, 11 jd. per hour; tallowshed, lOJd. ; offal - trolly, Is. per [ hour ; night-watchman, 50s. per week ; general hands not enumerated, lOJd. per hour ; boys and youths, from 12s. to 35s. per week according to age. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Wellington. —Slaughterhouse assistants — Boners, Is. 4£d. per hour. Fellmongery — skin-washers Is. 4$d. per hour, and piecework from Is. 2d. to 2s. per Wool-sorters. Is. 4Jd. per hour ; pullers, Fellmongery —Wool-sorters, pullers, peltIs. 4Jd. per hour; pelt-classers —con- elassers, pelt -fleshers. Is. 4jd. per hour tinuous employment Is. 4Jd. per hour, if continuously employed, and Is. 3d. casual employment Is. 1 Jd. per hour ; per hour if not continuously employed ; improvers. Is. Id.per hour; pelt-curers, bone-grinders, Is. 4Jd. per hour: woolIs. 41d. per hour ; painters and trim- scourers, Is. 2Jd. per hour; other mere, Iβ. Id. per hour; packers. Is. ljd. workers, Is. ljd. per hour. per hour ; machine splitters, Is. 3d. per Piecework —Wool-sorters. Is. Id. per hour ; chrome tanners, Is. 4Jd. per cwt. for crossbred, Is. 3d. per ewt. hour; chrome grainen and strikers. for merino; pullers, 7d. per dozen for Is. 2d. per hour ; shaving-machine ordinary skins, Sd. per dozen for hands on chrome and sheepskins, Is. 2d. potters' skins. per hour; hide unhaircrs and scudders, Tannery — Beameman, hide-fleshing, male. Ofd. per hour; rollers of crop, chine fleshing, sole-leather work. scadIs. I jd. per hour; rollers of split, ding, baiting, pelt-curinfi. pelt-classing, Is. 0|d. per hour; all others in fell- and lanyard work, Is. 3d. |kt hour: mongerv department, bom Is. to curriers, machine shavers, machine Iβ. Ojd. per hour ; soap- workers, Is. per whiteners, machine splitters, chromehour : machine fleshers. scudders. and workers, roan finishers, and all leatherhand fleshers. Is. Id. per hour; hide work from tanyard and drums. Is. 4d. beamsmen and hide-rleshers, Is. 2d. per per hour ; other workers. Is. lid. per hour; other hands, lOJd. per hour: hour; youths. 15 to 18 years, I5e. to apprentices, three years, 20s. to 30s. 21s. per week ; 18 to 21 years. 9d. per per week ; youths — 14 to 18 years hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week. 12s. to 21s. per week, 18 to 21 years Piecework — Curriers, setting and rounding 9d. per hour; all over 21 years, not kip, ltd. per hide ; setting and rounding less than Is. per hour. Hours of labour: split, Is. (id. per dozen; finishing kip, Fellmongerv department — winter 8. Iβ. ed. per hide ; finishing splits whole. summer !l per day : soap-workers, 48 7s. ]ier dozen ; finishing butt splits, per week. [Note. —See also Curriers.] ">s. per dozen. 9

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* under, 12s. (id. per week ; I") to 19 years and over, IBs. to 40s. |>er week. Hours of labour, 8 \ |>er day. Tolcomam Kα y. —The same as Gisbome (see above)--4 .. • 100; painters, Is. 4d.; fleshere, ma-chine-feeders, Is. 3d. to Is. 4Jd. per hour ; scudders, Is. 3d. to Is. 4d. ; pelt-classiT. Is. 4(1. ; freezing-chamber hands, Is. 4|d.; leading hand in hidehoiise, Is. 4£d. ; others, Is. 3d. ; pre-serving-department workers, Is. 3d. ; boys and youths, 15 to 19 and over, 12s. 6d. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour. 8 per day. Maeterton. —Slaughterhouse assistants : Boners, gutmen, and floormen, Is. 4Jd. per hour ; coaling-floor hands, trimmers, and general labourers. Is. lid. Fellmongery : Painters, Is. 4<l. ; piece or pie men, Is. ; limers. 10s. (id. per day; hVshers, machine-feeders, Is. 3d. to Is. 4|d. per hour ; scudders. Is. 3d. and Is. 4d. ; pelt - classers. Is. lid. ; skin-washers. Is. 4£d. ; wool-pressers, Is. 3d. : pullers, 9d. per dozen skins; freezing-chamber hands, Is. 4jd. per hour; manure, hide, tallow, and pre-serving-department workers. Is. 3d. ; firemen and greasers, 10s. per day; boys and youths. 15 to I!) years of age and over. 12s. 6d. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour, 8 per day. Hawke's Boy. —Slaughterhouse assistants —Boners, Is. 3d. per hour; coolingrloor and guthouse hands, and general labourers not otherwise specified, Is. per hour; meat-elasser, Is. 3d. per hour (including Sunday work). Kellmongery —Pullers. 4s. (id. per hundred skins ; painters, fleshers, scudders. wool - driers, all dollymen, woolseourers, trimmers, wringers, and woolpressers, Is. Id. per hour; pelt-classer, 1 s. 3d. per hour ; general floor hands, other labourers, and piece or pie men. lljd. per hour ; freezing - chamber hands. Is. 4.U1. per hour; fat-house hands, Is. per hour; manure hands, Is. per hour ; storemen, 55s. per week ; first hand, 35s. per week. Tinsmith —Cutting 1 lb. to (i lb. tins, 4d. to 7d. per 100; making 1 lb. to 6 ll>. tins. 2s. 4d. to 3s. 6d. per 100 ; topping 1 lb. to 6 lb. tins, Is. 5d. to 2s. Id. per 100; jobbing-work, Is. Id. per hour. Preserving department —First assistant, Is. 2d. per hour; other hands. Is. per hour; night-watchman, 8s. per night of twelve hours.

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Trade or Occupation. Xorthrrn Industrial District, Weflington industrial District. Canterbury Industrial Dtetrfct. Otago and Southlaid Indwtrial District. Fellmongering, &c. — contd. Engine-room and stokehole — Second engineer. 80s per week ; third engineer, 70s. per week : greasers, 8s. per day ; lireinan. Ms. per day (including Sunday 8 and holidays, if required) : general labourers, Is. per hour. • . ' Eitter, Is. 3d. per hour; fitter's assistant, "•' Iβ. ll.'.d. per hour; blacksmith. Is. .'id. per hour; blacksmith's assistant. Is. (I'd. per hour; carpenters and coopers, Is. 3d. per hour; painters. Is. 3d. per hour : carters and shunters. 4Ss. per week : general labourers not otherwise specified, Is. per hour; cook. 60s. per week of seven days; youths, His. to :i2s. per week. Hours. of labour. S per day. Wangaiiui. — Boners. skin - washers, painters, timers, fleshers, and chambermen. 1 s. 4£d. per hour ; scuddero and pelt-classers. Is. 4d. ; wool-prcssers. trimmers, and other hands not specified. Is. 3d. : leading hand in hidehouse. Is. ; manure hands, tallow hands, other hide-house workers. general hands in preserving department, and general labourers, Is. 3d. ; pullers. (Id. per dozen skins : firemen, l()s. per day; boys and youths —up to 15 years of age 12s. 6d. per week, 16 years to 19 and over 18s. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour, 8 per day. Fish-curers, 50s. per week ; fish-smokers, 55s. per of labour, 50 per week. Feeders. Is. 3d. per hour ; bench-loaders, Is. Id. : washers, Is. Id. ; head paddockers, Is. ljd. ; catchers, assistant paddoekers, sorters, and shakers. Is. ; rouseabouts. lOJd. ; drivers. 46s. per week : stripper - keepers. 2s. 6d. per daj- in addition to ordinary wages; scutchers. 26s. per ton; labour not Otherwise specified, Is. per hour; youths, 15s. to 35s. per week according to age. Hours of work, 48 per week. Fish*curing*and smoking .. Flax- milling

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Flonr-milling .. .. I RoUerman or shift-miller, oatmeal and barley millers, 1 s. 2d. per hour ; purifier, Is. Id. per hour ; smutterman, Is. Id. per hour ; assistant smutterman. Is. per hour ; kilnman, Is. per hour ; storeman, Is. ljd. per hour ; assistant storeman. Is. per hour; packerman. Is. per hour; engineer. Is. 2d. per hour ; engine-drivers, Is. to Is. 3d. per hour; boys, 10s. to 36s. per week ; casual labour in store. Is. per hour. Hours of labour. 48 per week. lour-mil Rollerman or shift - miller. Is. 2d. per hour ; oatmeal and barley miller. Is. 2d. per hour; purifier, Is. Id. per hour ; smutterman. Is. Id. per hour ; assistant smutterman. Is. per hour; kilnman. Is. per hour; head storeman, Is. lf,d. per hour; assistant storeman, Is. per hour; packerman. Is. per hour; engine-drivers, Is. to Is. 3d. per hour; boys, 5 years. 10s. to 36s. per week ; casual labour and grain-carriers in store. Is. per boar. Hours of labour. 8 per day. Rollerman or shift - miller, oatmeal and barley millers. Is. 2d. per hour; purifier, Is. Id. per hour; smutterman, Is. Id. per hour ; assistant smutterman. Is. per hour: kilnman. Is. per hour; storeman, Is. l£d. per hour; assistant storeman, Is. per hour ; packermen. Is. per hour; engineer. Is. 2d. per hour; engine-drivers. Is. to Is. 3d. per hoar; boys. 10s. to 36b. per week ; cmimU labour in store. Is. per hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Gas and eoko manufacturing % WniHjamii. — Leading stoker. 10s. (id. per shift of 8 hours ; ordinary stoker. 10s. shift of 8 hours. X npier. — Stokers, 11s. per shift of 8 hours ; boilermen, 9s. per shift of 8 hours (ten days' holiday yearly on full pay, with allowance of 42s.) ; booster boiler attendant, 54s. per week of 45 hours; firemen. 63b. per seven-day week (with seven days' holiday on full pay annually); ordinary labour, 51s. per week : tar-tank labour. 54s. pelweek ; retort-house labour. 56s. per week; casual labour (ordinary), Is. 1 Jd. per hour; trimming coal ex trucks. Is. IJd. per hour ; in trucks at works. Is. 3d. per hour. Wellington City. — Assistant-: Age '22 years and over, .">0s. per week : 21 to 22 years. 45s. per week : 20 to 21 years. 40s. per week; 19 to 20 years. 35s. per week ; 18 to 19 years, 25s. per week; IT to IS years, 208. per week: Hi to I" years. I5e. per week : [5 to Hi years. Ills, per week. Drivers — 22 years or age and over, 50s. per week ; under 22 years of age and down to Hi years, same wages as paid to assistants under 22 years according to scale. Hours of labour, as fixed by Shops and Offices Act. Stokers. 9s. 3d. per shift of 8 hours. Dunedin. —Same »s]Wellington District. Grocers'assistants .. Auckland City. — Same as Wellington City. Christchiirrh. —Assistants : Age 2:\ years and over, 45s. per week ; 22 years and upwards, 50s. per week; 21 to 22 years, 42s. 6d. per week ; 20 to 2 1 years, 35s. per week ; 19 to 20 years. :i(ls. per week ; 18 to 19 years. 25s. per week ; 17 to 18 years. 20s. per week; Hi to 17 years, 15s. per week : 15 to Hi years, 10s. per week. Drivers — 22 years and upwards. 50s. per week ; under 22 years, as for assistants. Hours of labour, as fixed by Shops and Offices Act. Gum-workers .. .. Sorters, Is. IJd. per hour; learners. 9d. per hour for first six months, 10£d. per hour next six months : casual labour, Is. 3d. per hour. Hours of lal>our, 47 per week. Hairdressers and tobacco- Journeymen, .v>-. per week ; apprentices, nists' assistants live years. 7s. (i<1. to 32e. (id. per week. Casual labour —Long days, 12s. (i<1. per day: other days, 10s. per rlay (except Wednesday, .Is. per (lay) ; if worker detained on Wednesday after statutory closing-hour, to be paid 12s. 6d. for day. Hours of labour, o2 ]x>r week. Journeymen. 55a. per week ; apprentices, five years, lOe. to 35s. |ier week. Casual labour — Long days 12s. 6d., other days 10s. (except half-holiday. 6e.). Hours of labour, 52 per week. Journeymen, 56s. per week: apprentices, five years, 7s. 6d. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour. 52 per week. Journeymen, 55s. per week ; apprentices, five years, 7s. 6d. to 35s. per .week. Hours of labour, 52 per week.

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Trade or Occupation. Northern Industrial District. Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial District. Otago and Southland Industrial District. onicry-manufacturing otels .. Beginners, 7s. |kt week, rising at sixmonthly intervals for three year- In 20s. per week. Auckland ('Hi/. — According to the number Wellington City. —According to Dumber Chrietchurch. — Kitchen same as Welof hands employed — In kitchen: Chefs. of hands employed — In kitchen: lington City, except if two females are 40s. to '.His. per week: second hands. Chefs, 40s. t< > 90s. per week: second employed (first .'!2s. (id. per week. 30s. to 66e. ; others, 27s. 6d. to 30e. ; hands. 30s. to .V>s. ; others, 25-. to second 22s. (id.); head waiters, 32s. 6d. female cook. :S(ls. In dining-room : 27s. lid. per week : female cooks. :il)s. to 50s. : second waiters. 32s. lid. to Head waiters, 30b. to 50s. ; second Waiters, 32e. 6d. ; waitresses. 22s. lid. : 40s.: others. :!2s. (j<1.; head waitwaiters. 30b. to 40s. others, 30e. ; housemaids, Mis. ; pantrymen. 25s. to resses. 22s. lid. to 25s. ; others. 20s. : waitresses. 22s. (id. to 25s. House- 30e. : pantrymaids. 20s. ; day-porters. housemaid - waitresses. 2()s. : pantrymaids, 17s. (id. to 20s.: pantry- 25s.: night-porters. 27s. (id. : barmen, men —tirst 27s. (id. to 30s., others maids. 21s. : pantrymen. 25s. to 30s. ; 42s. (i<1. : barmaids, 25s. j billiard- 25s. : pantrymaids. 20s. : laundresses, * day-porters. 25s. to 30s. ; night-porters, markers. .'!0s. : laundresses. 25s.: 25s.; housemaids — first 17s. 6d., 27-. (id. to 32s. (id. ; barmen, 40s. to general hands. 25s. Hours of labour, second Mis. (id. : barmen —head 35s. 47s. (id. : barmaids, 25s. to 30s. per as fixed by Shops and Offices Act.* to 45s.. second 35s. to 40s., others :S5s.; week : laundresses, 27s. (id. per week. I'nhiiirxtiin Xorlli and Wan (/mini. — barmaids. 27s. (id. ; day-porters —head General hands —males. 27s. (id. ; fe- Kitchen, same as in Gisbome District. 30s., second 25s. ; billiard-markers, males. 25s. Hours of labour, as fixed Waiters. 32-. lid. per week ; waitresses. :!0s. : night-porten —head 27s. (id. to by Shops and Offices Act. 20-. ; housemaids. 17s. (id. ; pantry- 30s.. others 25-. Auckland Country Districts. —According hands, same as Wellington City ; hi Boroughs adjacent to Christchurch. — to number of hands employed — In porters— day 25e., night 30s. ; general Kitchen — Male eook. 35s.: female kitchen : Chefs. 4()s. to 75s. per week : hands and laundresses, 25s. ; barmen, cook, 27s. (id. per week. Housemaids, second hands. 30s. to 45s. ; others. 42s. (id. ; barmaids. 30s. Hours of Mis. (id. ; housemaid-waitresses. 20s. ; 25s. per week ; female cooks. 30s. labour, as fixed by Shops and Offices head barmen, 35s. to 42s. (id. ; others, In dining-room — Waiters, 32s. (id. ; Act. . 35s.; general hands, 22s. 6d. ; billiardwaitresses, 20s. ; housemaids. 20s. ; Napier mid Hastings. — Kitchen and ' markers, 30s. Hours of labour as pantrymen, 25s. ; pantrymaids, 20s. ; dining-room, same as Gisbome I >is- . fixed by Shops and Offices Act. day-porters, 25s. ; night-porters, 30s. ; trict. Housemaids. 17s. (id. ; barmen, Tiniaru mid Wagkdyke. —Pantry hands, barmen. 35s. to 40s. ; barmaids. 25s. : 40s. to 50s. ; other workers same as porters, waiters, waitresses, barmen. billiard-markers, 90s.; laundresses. Wellington City. Hours of labour, as laundresses, and housemaids, same as 25s.: general hands. 25s. Hours of fixed by Shops and Offices Act. Christchurch; barmaids. 30s. per labour, as fixed by Shops and Offices week ; billiard-markers. 30s. : general Act. hands. 25s. per week. Hours of Rolorwi. —According to the number of labour, as fixed by Shops and Offices persons employed — In kitchen : Chefs. Act. 40s. to 85s. : second hands. 42s. (id. to 52s. (id. ; others, 27s. (id. to 30s. : female cooks. 30s. ; waiters. 32s. (id. : waitresses, 20s. ; housemaids. 20s. : pantrymen, 25s. : females. 20s. ; day-porters. 2(is. : night-porters, 30s. ; barmen. 35s. to 40.-. : barmaids, 30s. ; billiard-markers. 30s. ; laundresses. 2fSe. (leneral hands —Females. 20-. : males. 27s. (id. per week. Hours of labour, as fixed by Shops anil Offices Act. Same as Wellington City —except female cooks, 27s. 6d. per week ; waitresses, 22s. ; housemaids, 17s. 6d. ; and nightporters, 30s.

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Jewellers (manufacturing), watch and clock makers Oisbome District. —According to number of persons employed — In kitchen: Chefs, 40s. to 90s. ; second hands. 30e. to ~)5s. ; others. 27s. 6d. to 30s. In dining-room : Head waiters, 30s. to 50s. : second hands, :(0s. to 40s. ; others, 30s. ; waitresses, 20s. Housemaids, 2()s. In pantry : First hand (male), 27s. (id. to 30s. ; others, 26e. : females. 20s. Day-porters, 27s. (id. : night-porters, 30s. ; barmen, 40s. to 46s. : barmaids, 30fc. ; billiard-markers, 30s. j laundresses. 2os*; general hands —female 2.5s., male 27s. (id. per week. Hours of labour, as fixed by Shops and " Offices Act. Tourist Arrommodation-houeet (Rotorua). —Kitchen : male cook, 40s. ; other male hands, 25s. ; female cook, 30s. ; other female hands, 20s. ; males in pantry, 20s. ; females in pantry, 16s. Porters and general hands, 20s. : waitresses and housemaids, 16s. ; laundresses, 22s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, (>•"> per week. Journeymen, 60s. per week: apprentices, six years, 7s. (id. to .'!">s. per week. Hours of labour. 40J per week. Adult minimum wage — Day-work, Is. .. Workers employed in and about manure- Adult minimum wage, Iβ. per hour. per hour; night-work, Is. OJd. per works and tallow-works, Is. 3d. per Hours of labour. 48 per week. hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week. hour; oleo-works, Is. 2d. per hour; general labourers. Is. 2d. per hour; chamber hands. Is. 4Jd. per hour; preserving department. Is. 2}d. per hour ; other hands in department. Is. 2d. per hour. Hours of labour. S per day. Manure-manufacturing -Match-manufacturing Meat freezing, slaughtering, and preserving (see also Fellmongering, &c.) See Wax-vestas manufacturing Auckland (for export). — For freezing Ngahauranga mid Petone. —For freezing Slaughtermen's assistants, Is. 21d. per Burnside Abattoirs. — Slaughtermen, 50s. shee]) and lambs, 25s. per 100 ; others, sheep and lambs. 27s. (id. per 100; hour; boys and youths. 14s. to 2~>s. to (i."is. per week: casual hands. 12s. 18s. to 20s. per 100; rams, 5d. per ranis other than ram lambs. 5d. per per week, according to age. Hours of per day or 70s. per week: boys and head; bullocks, 2s. per head; pigs, bead > lambs requiring back sets. labour, 8 per day. youths. 12s. to 36e. per week, according ■ Is. and Is. (id. per head ; calves, Is. ">d. per head ; dead sheep and lambs. Slaughtermen (Chrietchurch abattoirs).- to age. Hours of labour. 48 per week. and Is. (id. per head ; lambs requiring Is. ; dead cattle. 5s. ; cattle, 2s. ; Rate of wages. 70s. per week : casual Mnhirt ini. Mataura, and Oreiin Bench. — back sets, 6d. per head; dead sheep and pigs. '*• to Iβ. (id.; calves, Is. to slaughtermen to be paid at the rate of Sheep and lambs, 27s. (id. per 100; * This award appears to liavt visions of the award shall cease to c ment Act, 1910, was to reduce the 1 has taken effect, and therefore the the passing of the Shops and Offices ! now lapsed. Clause 14 states that it " shall continue in force until any change is made by legislation in any of the conditions fixed by the award: that on any such change being made all the proiperate, and that thereafter the conditions of employment shall be fixed by agreement between each employer and the individual workers employed by him." Tlie effect of the Shops and Offices Amendlours of work of hotel-assistants, but section 11, however, suspended its operation in regard to awards then in force. The period for whieh this award was made lias now expired, so that the alteration t provisions of clause 14 of the award would appear to have come into operation, and the other provisions ceased to operate. The awards, other than Wellington City, have come into operation since i Amendment Act, 1910, and therefore are not affected in the same way.

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in charge of bag-room, 65s. per week ; boy in bag-room, 20s. per week ; carters, 48s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week for shift men and 45 per week for other workers. O Photo-engraving .. Head operator, 80s. per week ; journeymen operators, 70s. ; head etcher, 80s. ; journeymen, 70s. ; printers, 50s. ; apprentices, six years, 10s. to 40s. per week. Journeymen (registered plumbers), Is. 6d. per hour ; other journeymen, Is. 5d. per hour ; apprentiees, six years, 6s. to 35s. per week. Ho«rs of labour, 44 per week. See Saddle and harness making •—' Plumbers and gasfitters Same as Northern Same as'Northern Same as Northern. Portmanteau and leathergoods making Printing Auckland City. —Linotype and monotype operators on daily newspapers : Day hands, 74s. per week; night hands, 82s. per week ; all other day operators, 70s. ; night operators, 76s. Monoline operators : In towns of population of over 2,500 persons— day, (ids. ; night, 72s. : in towns with population of 2,500 persons or less — day, 60s. ; night, 66s. Simplex machine operators : In towns with population of over 2,500 persons —day, 60s. ; night, 66s. : in towns with population of 2,500 persons or less —day, 55s. ; night, 61s. Stone and bulk hands : On daily newspapers, Auckland City — day - work, 65s.; night, 70s. per week : second hands, 70s. (day) and 75s. (night); casual hands, Is. 9d. per hour. Probationers (six months) on lino and other machines — day, 50s. ; night, .">(>s. per week : on attaining speed of 4,000 ens on linotype or 3,000 ens on monoline machine —day, 60s.; night 66s. per week. Piecework rates : 3d. to 3Jd., with fat, per 1,000 ens, and 3£d. without fat. Apprentices (six years), 10s. to 40s. per week (when on machines, 2s. 6d. per week extra). Hours of labour, 42 per week. Letterpress-machinists in Auckland City and Gisborne : Journeymen, 65s. per week. In other parts of district, 55s. per week. See Saddle and harness making Same as Northern, substituting " Wellington City " for " Auckland City." Bookbinders and paper-rulers. —Same as Canterbury. See Saddle and harness making Same as Northern, substituting " Christchurch " for " Auckland City." Bookbinders, paper-rulers, and cutters : Journeymen bookbinders and paperrulers, 65s. per week; journeymen cutters pn defined work, 65s. per week ; cutters on other J[work — first 60s., second 55s., third 45s., fourth 35s. per week; casual workers, Is. 6d. per hour; apprentices, sixjyears, lOs.ito 35s. per week labour,J48 per week. See Saddle and harness'makhif.'. Same as " Dunedin " for " Auckland City." ' Bookbinders, paper-rulers, and cutters. — Same as Canterbury. • Letterpress - jpf]o r n i n g— ■ Head, 75s. per week ; first .assistant, 60s. per week ; second assistant, 55s. per week ; third assistant, 50s. per Same as Wellington, substituting " Dun edin," " Oamaru," and " [nvercargill : for places mentioned. Letterpress - machinists in City and Wanganui, Palmerston North, Napier, Hastings, Petone, and Lower Hutt — ■ .Journeymen, 65s. per week ;

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Saddle and harness making Sail, tent, and flag manufacturing Journeymen, Is. 2d. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 7s. 6d. to 30s. per week ; female stitchers, 7s. 6d. to 35s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Journeymen, Is. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Journeymen, la. 2d. per hour, or at piecework rates ; apprentices, five years. 10s. to 3">s. pel week ; female stitchers, 7s. (id. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Journeymen, Is. Id. per hour; improvers, .Vis. to 45s. per week ; female stitchers, 7s. (id. to 35s. per week ; apprentices, five years, 7s. 6d. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Journeymen, Is. 2d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 8s. to 30s. per week ; female stitchers, 7s. 6d. to 35s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Sausage-casing making 4, Headman on band - mills, 9b. per day; dogger and setter, 8s. per day ; assistant dogger and setter, 7s. 6d. per day ; turning down at band-saw, 7s. 6d. per day ; head, breaking-down saw, 8s. 6d. per day ; tail, breaking - down saw, 7s. Gd. per day ; head, circular saw (travelling), 9s. per day ; tail, circular saw (travelling), 8s. per day ; wedger, circular saw (travelling), 7s. 6d. per day ; headman, band-saw edger, 8s. per day ; tail, band-saw edger, 7s. 6d. per day ; head, first drag-saw, 8s. per day ; tail, first drag-saw, 7s. (id. per day ; head, second drag-saw, 7s. 6d. per day ; tail, second drag - saw, 7s. per day ; headman, recutter-saws, 8s. per day ; tailman, recutter-saws, 7s. 6d. per day ; headman, reeutter-saw, box or small splitting-saw (not an adult), 6s. 6d. per day; tailman, re-cutter-saw, box or small splitting-saw (not an adult), 5s. per day ; men in charge of two deal frames or gang saw, 8s. per day; men in charge of one deal frame, 7s. 6d. per day ; log jiggersaw. Ss. 4d. per day ; log-getters, 8s. per day ; men in charge of first goosesaw, 7s. (id. per day ; other goose-sawe (if adults), 7s. per day ; firs! assistam saw-doctor, 8s. per day : second assist ant saw -doctor, 7s. per day; third assistant saw-doctor, 6s. per day ; slipmen who class timber, 7s. 6d. per day ; men in charge of slip-truck who class and stack, 7s. lid. per day ; machineWhakatv Agreement. — Classers, measurers, tank hands, and scrapers, Is. 6d. per hour; salters, Is. 3d. per hour; boys and youths, 20s. to 50s. per week, according to age. Hours of labour, 11 per week. Pakipaki Agreement. —Same as Whakatu. Wellington. —Same as Whakatu. I n factories. — Machinists, first class Is. 4d. per hoar, second class Is. 2Jd. ; sawyers — first Is. .'id., second Is. 2d. ; head yardman, 60s. per week ; others, Is. Id. per hour ; cooper, Is. 2d. ; boxmaker. Is. Id. ; casual labour, Is. ljd. ; night-watchman (charge of one mill). 45s. per week ; engine-drivers, 8s. 6d. to 10s. per day; youths, lSe. to 35s. per week according to age. In Country Sawmills. — Benchmen, head Is. 4d. per hour, others Is. lid. ; breakdown men. first Is. .'id., second Is. 2<1. ; tailor-out, Is. 2d. J machinists. fire) I-. 4<1.. second Is. 2d. ; crosscutters, Is. Id. to Is. 2d. ; bullockdrivers, Is. 2Ad. ; ropemen, first Iβ. 2d., second Is. Id. ; jaekmen. Is. 2d. ; all other labourers, Is. Id. ; casual labourers, Is. 1 Jd. ; nightwatchman and engine - driver, as in factories. Hours of labour —factories 4<i per week, sawmills 48 per week Sawmilling Ohristehurch District. — In sawmills and factories: .Machinists — first Is. 4d. per hour, second Is. 2Jd. per hour, others Is. Id.; sawyers —first Is. 3d., others Is. l£d. ; tailers-out, Is. per hour. In timber and coal yards : Head yardman, 60s. per week ; others, Is. ljd. per hour ; orderman, 52s. (id. per week ; sawyers (in coal-yards), Is. ljd. per hour; casual labourers, Is. ; youths under 17 years of age, 15s. per week ; 17 to 21, 20s. to 36s. per week. Hours of labour. 44 per week. Carters —one horse, 48s. per week : two or more horses. 5:2s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per wee In. Ashburton. — In sawmills : Kirst-class machinists. Is. 4cl. per hour ; second-class machinists. Is. 2Jd. per hour; other machinists, over 21 years of age, Is. Id. per hour; first sawyer, Is. 3d. per hour ; other sawyers, Is. l£d. per hour; tailers-out, if over 21 years of age, Is. per hour. In timber or coal yards : I lead yardman. 60s. per week; orderman, 52s. (id. per week ; other workers over 21 years ol age, 48s. per week ; casual labour. Is. Hd. In Is. 3d. per hour; youths up to 21 years of age, 15s. to 35s. per week. Hours of labour, 15 per week. South Canterbury. — Machinists, first class Is. 4icl. per hour, second elas:Is. 2d. ; sawyers, Is. 3d. ; tailers-out, Is.; youths, 15 to 20 years of age, Olago. —Sawyers, first Is. 4d. per hour, others Is. l£d. ; tailers - out, Is. per hour ; machinists —first-class Is. 4£d. per hour, second Is. 2Jd., others Is. ; head yardman. Is. 4kl. per hour; others, Is.; orderman, Is. l£d.; casuals, Is. per hour; wood-turners, Is. 3d., spoke - turners and spoke - finishers, Is. lid.; butter-box makers, 7s. per day : sash and door makers, Is. 2d. ; youths, 15 to 21 years, 12s. 6d. to 36s. lid. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week' 8 uthland. — Breast-benoh sawyer (two saws and toj) saw), lls. per day ; breast-bench sawyer (one saw), 10s. (id. per day; big - bench sawyer (bottom and top saws), 10s. per day; tailerout, !ls. (id. per day; first - class machinist. Ids. per day; second-class machinist. Its. per day; engine-driver, first-class, LOs. per day ; engine-driver' second class, 9s. per day; haulingengine driver and other engine-drivers, Sβ. (id. per day ; locomotive - drivers, Wβ. per day; leading bushmen, 10s. per day : other bushmen and shoemen, !ls. (id. per day : stokers and brakesmen, 9s. per day : log - trolly men and wagoners up to two horses, i)s. ; trollymen and wagoners up to four horses. (Is. lid. ; trollymen and wagoners over four horses, 10s. per day; timber-trolly-iiii ■".' 6d. per day less than above ; tramway men, 9s. per day; others 8s. 6d. ; slabmen, assistant benchmen, and yard workers, 8s. 6d. per day ;

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Trade or Occupation. Northern Industrial- District. Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial Distri'-t. Otapo nn'l Southland Industrial District. 5ftwmilling — continued feeders, yard, slab, sawdust, shaving men, 7s. 6d. per day (but employers may engage machine-feeders, yard, slab, sawdust, and shaving men who are inexperienced at the work at 7s. per day for a period not exceeding six months); horse-drivers, 8s. per day ; engine - drivers who require to hold first - class certificate, 10s. per day ; engine - drivers who require to hold second-class certificate, 9s. per day; stokers, 7s. 6d. per day ; blacksmiths, in country mills only, 10s. per day ; blacksmith strikers, in country mills only (if an adult), 8s. per day ; head mill carpenters, 10s. per day; second mill carpenters, 9s. per day; first ordermen, 8s. per day ; assistant ordermen, 7s. 6d. per day ; machinemen who make and keep their own irons, 9s. 6d. per day ; machinemen who set up machine, 7s. 6d. per day; dreeaedtimber sorters, 7s. 6d. per day ; nightwatchman (maximum hours to be worked, 63 per week), 6s. 6d. per day ; holiday and Sunday watchmen (if not employed as ordinary night-watchmen), 9J hours per day, 7s. '6d. ; assistant engineers (turners and fitters), 9s. 6d. per day ; tallymen, 10s. per day. Hours of lal>our, 47 per week. Shipwrights, Is. 4d. per hour; boat- Wellington City. — First - class"! , boilerbuilders, Is. 3d. per hour; repair makers, Is. 4Jd. per hour; ordinary work, Is. 4Jd. per hour; apprentices. boilermakers, Is. 3d. per hour. J Hours five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 45J per week. of labour, 47 per week. Country Districts. —Journeymen, same as First-class boilermakers, Is. 4£d. per Wellington City. Hours of labour, hour ; ordinary boilermakers, Is. 3d. 48 per week. per hour; boilermakers , assistants, Is. ljd. per hour; apprentices, six years, 8s. to 36s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Journeywomen in charge, 27s. 6d. per week ; journeywomen and examiners, 25s. ; apprentices, two years, 5s. to 12s. 6d. per week; improvers, 15s. to 22s. 6d. per week ; journeymen chart cutters, 60s. per week ; stock cutters, 55s. ; examiners, 50s. ; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. 12s. 6d. per week; head yardmen, 60s. per week ; ordermen, 50s. ; others in yard, 45s. ; casual labourer;-. Is. per hour ; carters, one horse 46s., two or more horses 50s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. yardmen in charge, £11 per calendar montfe; bullock-drivers, 9s. Ikl. pel day; boys, from 14 years of age, 3s. per day, with advance of Is. for every year over 14. Hours of labour, 4S per week. Shipbuilding, boilermaking, iron-bridge building First-elass~boilermakers, Is. 4Jd. per t hour; ordinary boilermakers, Is. 3d. per hour ; other workers, Is. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 8s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. First-class boilermakers, Is. 4£d. per hour; ordinary boilermakers, Is. 3d. per hour ; "riveting, caulking, punching, plating, and repairing, Is. 3d. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 8s. to 2.~>s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Shirtmaking, &c.

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Soap-boiling .. .. &c. Soft-goods trade employees (retail) Wellington City. — Assistants, 16 years of age and under, first year of service. males 10s., females 7s. 6d. per week ; second year of service, males 15s., females 10s. per week ; third year of service, males 20s., females 12s. 6d. per week; fourth year of service, males 25s., females 15s. per week; fifth year of service, males 30s., females 20s. per week ; sixth year of service, males 37s. b'd., females 22s. 6d. per week ; seventh year of service, males 55s., females 27s. 6d. per week ; storemen, packers, and porters, 17 years of age and under, 10s. per week ; over 17, up to 21, 30s. ; porters, over 21, 45s. per week ; storemen and packers, over 21, 50s. per week. Hours of labour, as fixed by Shops and Offices Act. Wanganui. —Same as Wellington City. Same as Wellington City .. Dunedin City. —Same M Wellington City. ■I » Stone quarrying Workers engaged getting out stone roughly squared to measurement, Is. 3d. per hour; powdermen, hammer and drill men, and jumpermen, Is. Id. per hour; other quarr}' workers, Is. per hour; youths, 17 to 19 years, 15s. to 24s. per week ; 20 years, 5s. per day or 30s. per week ; 21 years, 6s. per day or 36s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Be Buildings —Journeymen, Is. 6d. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 9s. to 35s. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. Be Monumental masons — Journeymen stonemasons and marble - cutters, Is. 6d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 7s. 6d. to 27s. 6d. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. Journeymen, 55s. per week; pieceworkers as per log ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. c Workers employed in getting out pitchers, t, building-stone, kerbstone, and pavingi- stone ready for masons, Is. 3d. pel i, hour; hammer and drill men, jumpery men, and workers using explosives, o Is. Id. per hour; other workers, Is, 0 per hour. Hours of labour, 48 pel ; week. • Stonemasonrj' .. .. ls.^7d. r per hour; piecework, ut per foot — 6 in. kerbs Is. 3d., 8 in. Is. 6d., 10 in. Is. 9d., 12 in. 2s.; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week.] Journeymen, Is. 8d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 10s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. ir Journeymen, Is. 7£d. per hour; appreno tices, five years, 9s. to 35s. per week. 4 Hours_of labour, 44 per week. n 9, Tailoring —Tailors .. Journeymen, including pressers (pieceworkers as per log), 50s. per week ; apprentices, five years, ~>s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Factory hands — Second - class chart cutters, 60s. per week; stock cutter and trimmer, 55s. per week ; examine] , in charge of finishing-room, 52s. per week ; apprentices to stock cutting and trimming, five years, 10s. to 40s. per week ; machinists and pressers, 55s. per week; pressers' apprentices. two years, 20s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. Journeymen tailors and pressers (other than pieceworkers), 55s. per week; piecework, as per log; apprentices (male), five years, 5s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. as Northern District. e ;- Journeymen, 55s. per week; piece■e workers, as per log ;J£apprentice>. five )f years, 5s. to 30s. per 4 week. Hours oi labour, 48 per week. Factory hands, same as Northern District. i- same as Northern District.

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Table 5.—Schedule of the Rates of Wages and the Hours of Labour, etc.— continued.

Trade or Occupation. Northern Industrial District. Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial Distri-t. Otago an'l Southland Industrial District. Tailoring —Tailoresses Shop hands —Timework, 8d. per hour : coat hands, 25s. and 30s. per week ; vest and trousers hands, 25s. to 30s. per week ; machinists, 17s. 6d. to 30s. per week : apprentices, four years, 5s. to 20s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. Factor} , hands, same Bβ Wellington. Factory hands —Journeywomen, 27s. 6d. per week : improvers, 25s. per week : apprentices, four years, 5s. to 22s. 6d. per week. Hours of work. 4.j per week. Ladies' apparel —Journeywomen, 22s. 6d. to 2">s. per week ; apprentices and improvers (two years each), 5s. to 12s. (id. and 15s. 6d. to 30s. per week. Shop hands —Trousers, skirt, and vest hands, 30s. per week ; coat hands, 35s. per week : first-class machinists, 308. per week ; second - class machinists, 2.V. per week : apprentices (coatmaking), four years, 5s. to 27s. (id. per week ; apprentices (vest and trousers making), three years, 5s. to 22s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week. Howie's Bay. — Coat hands, 30s. per week ; trousers, vest, and skirt hands, 27s. 6d. per week : first - class machinists. 80s. per week : second-class machinists. 2Se, per week; coatmaking apprentices, four years, 5s. to 27s. 6d. per week ; trousers, vest, and skirt apprentices, three years, r>s. to 22s. per week ; apprentices to machining, same as trousers, tus., apprentices. Hours of labour, 45 per week: Factory hands, same as Wellington District. Shop hands —Machinists,' trousers, and vest hands, 25s. per week ; coat hands. 30s. per week ; apprentices, four years. 5s. to 20s. per week ; pieceworkers, as per log. Hours of labour, 45 per week. Factory hands, same as Wellington District. Shop hands —.Journeywomen, 27s. 6d. to 30s. per week ; improvers, 17s. 6d. per week ; apprentices, four years, 5s. to 17s. 6d. per week ; pieceworkers, wages as per log. Hours of labour, 45 per week. a % « Tanning Tinsmitliing and coppersmithing (see also Canisterworkers) See Fellmongering Journeymen, Is. 4d. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 7s. 6d. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Journeymen coppersmiths, sheet - metal worker.-, tinsmiths, and galvanizers, Is. 4d. per hour; improvers (one year after apprenticeship), 42s. per week ; apprentices. 7s. 6d. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. See Fellmongering . . North Canterbury. —Same as Wellington South Canterbury. — Journeymen sheet-metal-workers, Is. 2Jd. per hour. Hours of labour, 44 per week. See Fellmongering. Dunedin.— Journeymen, Is. 4d. per hour ; apprentices, six years, 7s. 6d. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Southland. —Journeymen, Is. 4Jd. per hour; improvers, Is. ljd. per hour; apprentices, five years,' 6s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 44 per week. See Tailoresses (factory). Waterproof-clothing manufacturing Wax-vestas manufacturing See Tailoresses (factory) Sec Tailoresses (factory) See Tailoresses (factory) Woollen-milling .. Weekly wages —Girls, first half-year, 12s. ; second, i~>s. ; second year, 18s. ; third year. 21s. ; and thereafter. 2.~>s. ; piece rates are also paid. Hours of labour, 45 per week. Petone Mills. — Girls, first year 8s. per week, after fourth year 25s. ; boys, from 14 to 21 years of age, 8s. to 35s. per week, thereafter 45s. per week ; wool-sorters, 50s. ; warpers and tuners. 56s.; pattern - weavers (hand loom), 48s. ; spinners, 50s. ; carpenters. 60s. ; blacksmiths, 60s. ; all other adult workers, 45s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Same as Wellington District Same as Wellington District.

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Return of Hours of Overtime worked by Boys and Women during Year 1913-14 in Factories in the Principal Towns in New Zealand.

Trades. Auck,and. j » i «£ Dunedin. New w Napier. Gisborne. Ply- "angamouth. nul Palmers- „ 4 . ton MasterJ North. ton ' Nelson. ,S. °™ Timaru. Invercargill. Smalle. Towns. Bagmaking . . .. .. .. Bisouit, confectionery, and jam making .. Boot and shoe manufacturing .. Cabinetmaking and upholstering Cardboard-box making Chemical-manufacturing .. .. Coach and tram building and blacksmithing Condiment-manufacturing Cycle, sewing-machine, and typewriter engineering Dress and millinery making Engineering Flourmilling Hat and cap manufacturing Hosiery-knitting Laundry work Photographic work Printing, bookbinding, and stationery manufacturing Saddle, harness, and leather-goods making Sail, tent, and canvas-goods making Shirt and underclothing manufacturing Soap and candle manufacturing Sugar-refining Tailoring and clothing-manufacturing Tea-packing and coffee and spice grinding Tinsmithing and plumbing, &c. Umbrella making and repairing Watch and jewellery making Waterproof-clothing manufacturing Woollen-milling Miscellaneous 6,042 1,787 961 507 323 387 1,394 1,229 78 525 600 1,188 2,296 144 877 516 984 3,152 743 147 192 249 27 '.'. 1,093 18 2,581) io8 5 21 41 5 3 :S,688 268 13 24,300 154 j. 93 t",. ; ,77 5,705 ' 526 454 657 526 27 6 2,595 385 15 '774 '726 1,970 3,523 12 3,070 9,789 3 2,984 204 4,642 446 3 1,668 432 1,231 44 3,365 5,090 4,754 1,626 78 2,570 3,900 53 501 93 i05 1,064 128 177 213 1,343 214 ' 105 ii4 "4 in 32 "o9 "45 io7 487 51 1,338 1,508 3,238 1,606 1,935 4,285 231 " 2,579 822 .. 135 159 15,116 159 1,228 16,812 154 4 15,783 1,608 24,154 1,218 2,025 400 62 396 1,628 800 •405 1,313 U23 2,309 4,010 6,724 •• 3 900 3 24 702 200 315 12,630 1,534 92 .. .. 102 14 1.124 1,026 419 .. Totals .. 50,443 37,721 53,218 71,458 3,478 1,444 1,901 5,471 5,887 1,200 4,101 2,261 4,314 7,147 7,196 17,581 I

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Permits granted during the Year to Young Persons (Fourteen to Sixteen Years of Age) to work in Factories.

In connection with the figures shown above it is perhaps of interest to note the proportion of each sex which has passed the various school standards, and which is as follows : —

Return showing Number of Factories and Shops in the various Towns and their Surrounding Districts in New Zealand. Numbor Number Number Number Name of Place. of of Name of Place. of of Factories. Shops. Factories Shop.. Auckland .. 1,622 2,463 Northern Industrial DistrictWellington . . 1,110 1,597 continued. Christchurch .. .. 1,290 1,562 Pukekohe .. ~ 47 66 Dunedin .. .. .. 1,131 1,155 Raglan.. .. ..10 17 Northern Industrial District — Rawene.. .. ..27 66 Aratapu .. 24 38 Rotorua .. 70 238 Cambridge .. 59 70 Russell .. .. .. 5 II Coromandel .. 10 27 Taumarunui .. 69 163 Dargaville 56 81 Taupo .. .. .. 9 14 Gisborne .. *. . 202 258 Tauranga .. . . 40 68 Hamilton .. * .. 154 .239 Te Aroha .. 58 67 Helensville .. ..20 34 Te Awamutu .. 15 53 Hikurangi .. 15 31 Te Karaka .. 20 50 fluntly.. .. ..24 32 Te Kuiti .. 42 80 Kaitaia.. .. 12 41 Te Puke .. 27 27 Karangahake .. ..11 25 Tokomaru Bay .. .. 15 10 Kawakawa .. ..26 44 Thames.. .. .. 90 197 Kawhia.. ..10 18 Tolaga Bay .. ..12 16 Kihikihi 12 8 Waihi .. .. ..62 110 Mangawai .. 9 9 Waikino 5 16 Mangonui .. .. 8 23 Waipiro Bay .. .. 5 18 Maungaturoto .. ..20 27 Waipu .. .. ..13 21 Mercer .. .. ..27 28 Waiuku.. .. ..20 25 Morrinsville .. ..30 31 Warkworth .. ..17 28 Ngaruawahia .. 28 29 Whakatane .. 29 27 Ongarue .. .. 22 38 Whangarei .. . . 100 J2O Opotiki.. '.. ..28 37 Whangaroa .. ..9 16 Otorohanga .. 17 30 Whitianga .. .. 9 22 Paeroa .. 35 57 Taranaki Industrial District Papakura .. ..32 "30 Eltham.. .. ..94 78 Port Awanui .. .. 10 15 Hawera.. .. ..122 137

Town. Boys: Standard passed. Girls: Number Mumber of of ; ! Boyn. Girls. Iy y VI yn iy Girls: Standard passed. : Stat V. ndard passed. VI. VII. Auckland .. ChiUtchuroh Dunedin < lisbome Greymouth Hastings lnvcrcargill.. Maeterton .. Napier Nelson .New Plymouth (la maru (nil Xiirt ll Thames Timaru Wanganui .. Wellington .. Smaller ton as 245 162 125 6 10 4 20 8 16 24 16 16 37 10 21 25 127 60 328 69 226 .",4 236 55 10 1 2 2 I 14 1 11 2 30 3 II ' 7 8 11 10 3 3D 12 Iβ 36 2 23 7 209 31 44 14 7:! :s'.i 12 2 5 6 3 4 7 1 6 II 5 8 6 46 Iβ '.I! I <i2 58 3 .! 3 13 3 !l it 4 7 7 5 I I 12 19 27 I 7 1 99 .-,7 96 2 ti 2 2 (i 6 1 6 4 4S 3 70 117 3 1 6 3 8 4 2 2 14 9 13 12 77 12 115 89 72 r, 1 8 7 Iβ 5 2 2 7 ii 17 ."> 84 2<i i 2 III 7 3 2 I :t 3 •Toi 338 467 21 932 1,241 275 250 384 i>:s ll.-> • There were also issued, under section 27 (n) if the Factories Act; 1908, special permits to 5 boys and 10 girls thirteen years of age.

Standard IV. Standard V. Standard VI. Standard VII. 3oys 3irls Per Cent. 295 27-2 Per Cent. 26-8 33-4 Per Cent. 41-2 376 Per Cent. 2-4 1-7

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Return showing Number of Factories and Shops, etc — continued. Number Number Number Number Name of Plaoe. of of Name of Place. of of Factories. Shops. Factories. Shops. Taranaki Industrial District — Westland Industrial District— continued. continued. Inglewood 55 69 Reef ton.. .. 26 102 Manaia .. .. 50 52 Ross .. .. .. 6 28 Mokau .. .. .. 7 14 Seddonville .. 3 13 New Plymouth .. .. 248 286 Westport .. .. 82 136 Opunake .. ..38 41 Patea .. .. 33 46 Canterbury Industrial District — Stratford .. .. 87 120 Akaroa .. .. .. 58 42 Wellington Industrial District — At 91 9Q Ashhurst .. ..24 21" ~, ."' ~„ 1Q „ t, ii, oc oo Ashburton .. .. 148 187 Bulls 26 23 Cags ? Carterton .. 61 88 ,-,, " . '' '' 00 ~ lfto 10 . Cheviot.. .. ..13 22 Dannevirke .. .. 102 134 Pit I*> I*> Kketahuna .. 26 29 n i j oo ok -c ~ . oq on Culverden .. 22 25 Featherston .. .28 30 24 J ell f n § '• ■■ X °l ■ U l Geraldine ..36 67 Foxton ...... 45 40 v., „, .„ r, . n „ ~ Kaikoura .. ..25 40 Greytown .... 20 41 T , OQ „. TT '. ,KO 400 Leeston.. .. 28 34 Hastings .. .. 152 182 t • i oo ob: tt j. it oi oo Lincoln.. .. ..22 35 Hunterville .. ..21 32 T ..., t>. ~ ~ „■ , ~ .„ OC \ Little River .. ..14 14 Kimbolton .. 17 20 v ~ „_ oa T . en __ Methven .. 27 38 J?™ •: " " ™ H Oxford 31 25 Mangaweka ..24 28 Pleasant Point .. ..20 25 Maryborough .. ~. 30 40 Rafe Marton ...... 52 47 d • ™™ «, Masterton .. ..155 188 " " 11 55 ■B-- • 2 2 3 S :: :: It £ ° hakune " " *« 72 T . maru 2g3 319 Ongaonga .. ..10 23 Waimate 69 98 Ormondville .. ..20 40 Waimate .. .. «» 9» „ ~ . _ 0 __ Otago and Southland Industrial District — Pahiatua .. 73 57 n ° Palmerston North .. 269 397 utago— n , iri ~ Alexandra South ..7 21 Porangahau .... 10 11 . „ in tt ,-, s . oo o-i Arrowtown .. .. 8 19 ttaetini .. .. 22 ol t> i i .. oo oa n . 0 ,, 00 Balclutha .. 32 64 Rongotea .. ..20 23 ny . .. Ift „, 8 .„ QO Clinton .. 14 19 Shannon ..42 32 n v A a 7 in ?ihape 59 71 J^ e well ;; ;; J j; CerHutt :: :: 20 23 e untr r •• jj » Waroawa 46 54 Hampden .. ..18 25 Waipawa .. .. 40 o* Kaitangata .. ..23 63 Waipukurau .. ..33 52 Ruro / 9 lg Wairoa.. .... 74 bo T on .„ t, t ~ c id Lawrence .. ..30 43 Wwtotara •* * „!° Middlemarch .. ..10 19 Wanganui .. ..299 342 MiHon 45 c() woXiL :: :: 5 " r by •• » « Oamaru .. .. 160 187 Marlborough Industrial District— Ophir.. .. 3 19 Blenheim .. ..110 143 Outram .. ..20 27 Havelock ..' ..24 25 Owaka .. ..40 53 Picton .. .. 29 53 Palmerston South 23 45 Seddon.. .. .. 8 13 Pembroke .. ..4 7 Nelson Industrial District — Rib 19 H5 Collingwood .. 21 18 a . t> ,i > " « o %r ■& ,n oa St. Bathan s .. ..5 9 5", ° n " oiJ w Tapanui .. ..16 40 N eso . n 2 ?J 3 °* Waikouaiti .. ..15 28 Takaka 28 25 Waitahuna .. .. 4 13 Westland Industrial District — Southland — Brunnerton .. ..16 36 Gore .. .. ..122 136 Charleston .. ..5 4 Invercargill .. ..362 373 Denniston .. 16 28 Lumsden .. 27 38 Granity .. ..11 28 Mataura .. ..30 31 Greymouth .. ..139 258 Orepuki .. ..34 35 Hokitika .. ..54 118 Otautau .. ..56 60 Karamea .. ..9 12 Riverton .. ..36 50 Kumara .. 14 44 Waikaia . . 6 14 Lvell .. ..1 11 Winton ..60 60 Okarito.. .. ..10 22 Wyndham . ~ .. 52 30

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Table showing Statistics concerning Persons assisted by Men's Employment Bureaux, from 1st April, 1913, to 31st March, 1914— by Occupations.

Auckland, Gisborne, and Hawke's Bay Districts. Wellington and Taranaki Districte. Nelson, Westland, and Marlborough Districts. North and South Canterbury Districts. Otago and Southland District. Totals. Occupations. 1 j •a -9 $ a a . * 1 S* II Z (5 >5 2 * a — ■ —; — 8a Is eg 1 .= a y. (a — 4) 1 t I || * af S « 3 3 a a> o Z* 32 y. !|J Til «=x * s| s« o-g s>, SS oj is n a u o h * ■g I 4 OB I I. s - as al 3 5a is ii 1 s 1 S K O 1 3 1 2 M II l = y. y, 7. - I y. ! 4 DO s § SZ S5 la u O It 2! s o gs Bricklayers .. •I 2 ! 12 3 27 13 l> ■ • •> 1 2 " I 15 7 36 20 •• Carpenters .. 14 14 i i 31 l>8 38 32 Illi 04 ii 16 9 34 20 ."i 7 1 19 3 ."■ 75 56 200 115 II Engineers J 7 111 12 21 37 29 1 ■1 2 31 7 15 ii I I :i 4 2 22 43 65 53 I! Farm hands .. 17 !»4 3 16 25 111 54 207 124 2(il -> ■2 9 79 14 88 22 161 58 183 103 .">42 223 645 Hotel hands .. 10 18 398 61 21 71 I 1 3 14 S 17 1 S Hi 9 18 98 49 116 •• Labourers 170 609 I 4 4SI4 369 955 ! .012 996 357 27 83 101 55 56 181 732 651 270 642 214 501 1169 204 511 990 2,880 2,927 1,935 1,93; Minors 31 19 5 13 34 37 38 9 16 ■21 lit ! I 26 2 <; 11 4 4 18 35 64 10 43 61 111 207 85 s . Painters !) 8 3 4 12 7 .. 4 .. ,1 2 3 9 5 in 16 34 20 •• Shop assistants 2 2 • 21 14 1 -' 3 ■2 3 5 ' 9 8 96 106 1 1 1 11 17 33 27 1 •• •• i •• •• ■■ Miscellaneous 36 73 too 107 2 88 175 247 228 :::, 3 16 9 I 38 97 30 27 26 62| 39 39 14 192 379 521 489 ffi 12 Totals 264 836 71 S 724 376 636 ! ,499 I ,654 1.721 49 1 188 83 85 250 955 S43 .",21 J H90 292 739 896 456 r>, 5 1 .497 4,295 414, 119 456 ,148 13.505! 2.1 I : i

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Summary of Statistics concerning Persons assisted by Men's Employment Bureaux, from the 1st April, 1913, to the 31st March, 1914.

Domestic Servants and Others assisted by Women's Branches.

Report on Accommodation for Shearers under the Shearers' and Agricultural Labourers Accommodation Act, 1908.

Districts. i o •e 1 I o-g Number dependent g J on those assisted. e » ; PhQ °^ ili J i i 3S = 3 as ¥ if eg I IS! I y. t. 3 5 I 3 <d « i i i S 3 I & a s § s 5 5 a >j s a » o o o i Z, % i O S Where from. I s Auckland . . .. .. 208 861 Jiebome and Hawke's Bay .. 56 181 Wellington .. .. .. 6:50 1,491 kelson, Weetland, and Marlborough 4!) 11! Canterbury . . .. .. | 256 95j ttago .. .. .. J 284 711 louthland .. .. .. 8 2 i 858 214 i 242 ! 56 i 2,135 636 1 I 168 49 i 1,211 266 I 1,002 284 29 8 :t33 112 1,018 139 I 387 691 12 547 06. 168 01 1,864 1,72: 188 81 843i 52: 875 44( 20 II |4,2t)5 ! 3,50: I!) I 1 i 182 : J 414 3: : 86 . 690 . i 562 : ' 13 ■ . 2,140! 5' 1 4 19 506 2 .. 149 5 44 846 . .. 18 ... 70 3 1 26 . . J .. 4 04 1,674 29 39 27 8 293 138 68 26 864 54 199 68 24 2 1,804 336 L9! e: 70 5: 19; 38 2i K I 30 29 : l i • Grand totals .. .. 1,497 4,14! I 5,645 1,503 .2,792 1,64: 118!

Districts. Married. Single and Widows. North Island. South Island. Commonwealth. Great Britain. Luckland lasterton Wellington .. Jelson Jhristchurch .. )unedin 63 4 251 63 72 40 595 II 517 80 252 215 535 15 643 20 18 7 7 28 114 248 227 6 12 2 5 8 110 85 7 53 13 Grand totals 493 1,670 1,238 624 33 268

(Section 9: "This Act loee not appl Iy to si loari: [-el Is in w] lid ie total liirnil >er oi learers enipl loyei is lew inn six.") District. Total Number of Sheds inspected. Satisfactory. Minor Requirements. .UCKLAND AND POVBBTY BAY— Gisborne Port Awanui Te Karaka Tokomaru Bay ... Tolaga Bay Waipiro Bay 46 3 . 6 13 10 6 20 1 6 2 8 3 3 9 3 6 11 2 2 4 2 5 1 1 Totals ... SI 29 17 19 iy

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Report on Accommodation for Shearers, etc. — continued.

District. Total Number of Sheds inspected. Satisfactory. Pull Acoommodation required. Extensive Alterations and Additions required. Minor Requirements. Wellington and Hawke's Bay— Hastings Hunterville Manga weka Marton Masterton Moawhango Napier Ormondville Pahiatua Porangahau Taihape Waipawa Waipukurau Wairoa Wanganui 2 27 19 1 11 1 28 12 1 10 1 1 2 13 2 2 27 19 1 11 1 28 12 1 10 1 1 2 13 2 2 27 12 1 5 17 12 "lO 1 1 2 7 2 2 27 12 1 5 17 12 " 1 " 3 " 4 1 3 4 " 2 - 2 6 1 6 ' 1 10 1 1 2 7 2 4 2 Totals ... 131 131 99 1)9 8 16 Nelson and Maelborough— Nelson... Seddon... 8 1 8 1 7 1 7 1 1 Totals ... 9 8 Canterbury— Ashburton Chatham Islands Christchurch Culverden Kaikoura Little River Methven 3 6 1 ! 2 5 " 3 9 2 5 1 1 1 1 ... 1 3 9 1 Totals 25 25 19 19 Otago and Southland — Arrowtown Cromwell Dunedin Invercargill Kurow Middleniarch Naseby Oainaru Ophir ... Otautau ... , Queenstown Roxburgh ... ' 2 6 8 7 1 2 4 1 2 5 3 2 2 6 H 7 1 2 4 1 2 5 3 •2 2 3 7 5 2 3 " 2 5 3 2 2 3 7 5 2 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 5 3 2 Totals ... 43 43 34 34 1 4 4 SUMMABY. 19 8 " 3 4 19 16 1 3 4 Auckland and Poverty Bay ... Wellington and Hawke's Bay Nelson and Marlborough Canterbury Otago and Southland 84 131 9 25 43 29 99 8 19 34 17 8 ' 1 Totals ... 292 292 189 189 26 26 34 43

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Report on Accommodation for Flax-mill Workers inspected under the Shearers' and Agricultural Labourers' Accommodation Amendment Act, 1912.

Report on Accommodation for Sawmill Workers inspected under the Shearers' and Agricultural Labourers' Accommodation Amendment Act, 1912

Industrial District. Sat is - faotory. 1 pfy 111! 'Sγ ToW - required. S g _$_ 43 Northern (Auckland)— Auckland, Coromandel, Hamilton, Huntly, Kihikihi, Mercer, Ngaruawahia, Te Aroha, Te Puke Wellington— Carterton, Featherston, Martinborough, Masterton, Napier, Ormondville, Raetihi, Waipukurau, Wairoa, Waverley Manawatu 12 7 2 2 6 22 2 3 2 14 22 13 25 2 7 6 40 1 .. .. 1 20 i 'aranaki Ielson and Marlborough— Blenheim 3 ..418 8 Vestland— Denniston, Granity, Greymouth, Kumara, Ross.. Canterbury— Leeston, Rangiora .. )tago and Southland— Invercargill, Kaitangata, Lumsden, Mataura, Orepuki, Owaka, Roxburgh, Waikaia, Winton 5 6 5 6 5 6 20 13 2 26 3 Totals .. 78 8 19 17 122 78

Industrial District. Sal isfactory. . Fu " i Ill's Minor - a ■no Northern (Auckland) — Aiatapu, Auckland, Cambridge, Coromandel, Dargaville, Giebome, Hamilton, Helensville, Hikurangi, Kaitaia, Kawhia, Mangawai, Mangonui, Mercer, Ngaruawahia, Ongarue, Otorohanga, Paeroa, Raglan, Rawene, Rotorua, Taumarunui, Tauranga, Te Karaka, Te Kuiti, Te Puke, Thames, Warkworth, Whitianga, Whangaroa I'aeanaki— Elthani, New Plymouth, Opunake, Stratford .. Wellington— i C'arterton, Uannevirke, Featherston, Hunterville, Kimbolton, Mangaweka, Napier, Porongahau, Otaki, Raetihi, Wairoa, Wanganui Kelson and Marlborough— Blenheim, Collingwood, Nelson, Seddonville, Kai- I koura, Takaka /Vestland — Charleston, Denniston, Granity, Greymouth, Hokitika, Kumara, Reefton, Ross Janterbury— Geraldine, Little River, Oxford, Rangiora, Temuka 42 5 21 13 18 4 12 3 3 8 2 7 8 10 2 4 10 63 63 63 9 8 32 27 17 5 35 35 1 14 I 5 38 38 1 1 20 5 6 6 73 27 >tago and Southland — Dunedin, (lore, Invercargill, OrepuM, Otautau, Owaka, Queenstown, Riverton, Waikaia, Winton — 48 Totals 151 151 5 69 69 31 256 204

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Details of Expenditure of the Department of Labour during the Year ending the 31st March, 1914. £ s. d. Salaries .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. *15,323 8 4 Advertising, printing, and publications .. .. .. .. .. .. 181 2 3 Allowance to International Association for Labour Legislation, Basle, towards cost of collecting and publishing information respecting the labour laws of various countries .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ■ .. 25 0 0 Allowance to Messrs. Veitch, M.P., and Robertson, M.P., for services as members of the Cost of Living Commission .. .. .. .. .. .. 245 2 0 Allowances to police officers acting as departmental agents .. . . .. 935 211 Audit fees for inspection of accounts .. .. .. .. . . 33 10 0 Bicycles (including eight motor-cycles) .. .. .. .. .. .. 638 17 0 Cartage, freight, and insurance .. .. .. .. .. .. 63 lii II Cost of extra typing . . .. .. .. .. .. .. . . 7 5 0 Cost of messenger's uniform .. .. .. .. .. .. .. I 10 0 Cost of special typewritten reports under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 76 1 I 9 Departmental exhibit at Auckland Exhibition .. .. .. . . .. 123 2 5 Expenses of inquiry into alleged misconduct of a departmental officer . . .. 3 3 0 f Fares, board and lodging, and supplies for persons proceeding to employment . . 1,514 19 9 Fees payable to acting members of the Court of Arbitration .. .. .. 36 0 0 Fees payable to assessors of Industrial Councils .. .. .. .. 1,445 17 0 Legal and witnesses' expenses .. .. .. .. .. .. 174 7 0 Payment of special messengers, Arbitration Court .. .. .. . . 18 14 0 Postage and telegrams (including rent of letter-boxes) .. . . . . .. 1,044 3 0 Preparing and printing Supplementary Digest of Decisions under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act .. .. .. . . .. 10 0 0 Preparing and printing Supplementary Digest of Decisions under the Workers' Compensation Act .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 30 0 0 Printing and stationery . . .. .. .. .. . . .. 1,922 4 3 Rebate of fares of persons proceeding to employment .. .. . . .. 537 12 4 Rent, office requisites, cleaning, fuel, and lighting . . .. .. .. 1,107 6 0 Special allowance to officer conducting inquiry into alleged shortage of labour in New Zealand manufacturing industries .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Tea-money for officers working overtime . . . . . . .. .. 22 10 0 Telephones .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 213 13 11 Temporary clerical assistance .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 152 15 0 Travelling allowances and expenses .. .. .. .. .. .. 3,919 I 7 Typewriters . . .. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. 77 8 0 Workers' dwellings — Administrative and travelling expenses .. .. .. .. . . 282 19 0 Advance to Gonville Town Board to defray cost of high-pressure water-supply, Ballance Settlement, Gonville (since refunded) .. .. .. .. 340 14 0 Destroying noxious weeds on vacant sections .. .. .. .. 15 0 Fire insurance, rates, repairs, and valuation fees .. .. . . .. 313 19 7 Contingencies .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 770 30,843 14 6 Less amount credited under section 48, Public Revenues Act, 1910 2,294 18 4 Total .. .. .. .. ..*£28,548 16 2

* This total does not include tho salaries vi the Judge and members of the Court of Arbitration (appropriated liv spocial Act of Parliament), f 96 per cent, of the amount owing for fares has been refunded.

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Wages and Hours of various Building Trades in Wellington, New Zealand, compared with certain Large Cities in Great Britain.

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Diagram showing Proportion of Main Items to Average Total Weekly Expenditure (based on Expenditure of Sixty-nine Workers' Families in New Zealand).

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Graph showing Food-prices by Index Numbers, New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and Germany, 1900-1912.

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Diagrams showing Number of Factories registered in New Zealand.

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Diagram showing Average duration of employment in weeks.

(This diagram was compiled from data collected for the period, April. 1910, to March, 1911. The earnings shewn are the average for the 52 weeks.)

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Graph showing Number of Employees (all ages) at work in each month of the Period April 1910 to March 1911.

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Diagram showing Average Rents of 4, 5 & 6 Roomed Houses in the Four Chief Centres Shown in Shillings per Week Based on the Census Returns of 1911.

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FACTORIES IN NEW ZEALAND.

Diagram I.—Showing the Number of Persons engaged in the Principal Industries for the Years ending 31st March, 1895 and 1914.

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Diagram 3.—Showing the Number and Annual Increase of Workers in Factories from 1896 to 1914.

FACTORIES IN NEW ZEALAND.

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ACCIDENTS IN FACTORIES IN NEW ZEALAND. Diagram showing Accidents in Factories for the Years ending 31st March, 1903 to 1914.

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