DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR (REPORT OF THE).

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1925 Session I, H-11

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR (REPORT OF THE).

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

KEPO R T . The Secretary, Department of Labour, to the Hod. the Minister of Labour. Sir, — Department of Labour, Wellington, 27th June, 1925. I have the honour to present herewith the thirty-fourth annual report of this Department, for the information of His Excellency the Governor-General, and to be laid before Parliament, in compliance with the Labour Department Act, 1908, and the Factories Act, 1921-22. The report covers the financial year Ist April, 1924, to 31st March, 1925. 1 have, &c., F. W. Rowley, The Hon. the Minister of Labour. Secretary of Labour. CONDITIONS OF TRADE AND EMPLOYMENT. General trade conditions improved during the year, but this did not affect the position of unemployment to any appreciable extent, the number of applications for employment now on the books being practically the same as at the corresponding time last year. Labourers again comprised about 50 per cent, of these applications, the remainder including clerical workers, drivers, engineers, hotel workers, seamen and firemen, storemen, and those of other occupations in smaller numbers. None of the skilled trades in which apprenticeship periods are required, with the exception possibly of engineers, showed any degree of unemployment, and the engineering trade improved to some extent during the year. The number of men sent to public works fell considerably, but there was a large increase in the number of men sent to private employment, there being a great demand for farm-workers and for men employed in the building trade ; the latter was, no doubt, largely accounted for by the granting of loans by the State Advances Office for house-building purposes. Local bodies throughout New Zealand provided employment for a considerable number of men through increased activities in drainage-work, pipe-laying, electrical reticulation, roadworks, tramway developments, improvements to reserves, &c. The boot-manufacturing and woollen industries improved slightly in some places, but it is said that the outlook is still not good. Unemployment generally has, as usual, increased to some extent as the freezing and other seasonal occupations finished. Total engagements made at Department's employment bureaux : 1924-25 —3,890 (1,206 to public works, 2,684 to private employment) ; dependants, 4,021 ; in addition, 385 persons were assisted, by the advancing of railway fares or otherwise. 1923-24 —3,877 (1,859 to public works, 2,018 to private employment); dependants, 3,814.

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FACTORIES ACT.

The figures as to the number of factories and the workers employed therein do not purport to coincide with those of the Government Statistician (Census of Industrial Manufactures), as his returns, which are drawn up purely for statistical purposes, do not cover various small establishments that are included as factories under the Factories Act. Accidents. As mentioned in last year's report, the necessity of internationally comparable statistics was urged by the International Conference of Labour Statisticians held at Geneva in November, 1923. Arrangements have now been made with the New Zealand Government Statistician to compile such statistics from the reports of accidents required to be given to us by factory-occupiers under section 41 of the Factories Act; the results will be published in detailed form by the Government Statistician. In order to be comparable with the statistics of other countries these results will cover the calendar year instead of the financial year, and the following particulars are therefore given for the same period. (The accidents that occurred during January-March, 1924, were also included in the figures in last year's report, being within the financial year then dealt with.) The reports of accidents in factories during the year show that out of a total of 1,979, 54 occurred to workers under sixteen years of age, 338 to those between sixteen and twenty, and the remaining 1,587 to those above that age : 22 of the accidents to workers under sixteen occurred in confectionery and biscuit factories where a large proportion of the employees are young persons—the accidents were generally of a slight nature ; the remaining 32 occurred in small numbers in various industries. The largest number of the accidents occurred in meat-freezing (844), engineering (142), sawmilling (116), joinery (80). Of the total of 1,979 accidents, 86 occurred to females. As accidents in industries are generally considered to be chiefly due to machinery, it is interesting to note that only about one-fourth of the number last year —viz., 499 out of 1,979 —arose from this cause; even allowing for the large number of minor accidents in freezing-works that are not due to machinery, the number arising from other causes is considerably greater. The same conclusions may be drawn from the statistics of other countries : for instance, the figures published by the United States Steel Corporation classify the causes of 200,000 accidents ; of these only 8-83 per cent, were connected with machinery. The Chief Inspector of Factories, England, also states that the great bulk of the accidents in factories are not caused by machinery, and that therefore only a relatively small proportion can be prevented by mechanical safeguards. The principal causes of the accidents in New Zealand were found to be as follows : Due to machinery, 499 ; falls of persons, 185 ; tools breaking or glancing off the work, 468 ; strains and septic wounds, 121 ; others, 706 : total, 1,979. A classification showing the extent of disability is as follows : Temporary disability, 1,895 ; permanent partial disability, 74; permanent total disability, 1; fatal, 9: Total, 1,979. Of the fatal accidents recorded the following particulars are given : — (1.) A mechanic working in a boxmaking-factory entered the main-shaft well to oil the shafting, when his apron was caught and drawn around a revolving shaft; his clothes were torn off and he was thrown against the wall, causing death through fracture of his skull. Instructions had been issued by the employer that any worker entering the well must remove his apron or loose clothing, and the worker was fully aware of them. (2.) A general labourer in a brickmaking plant was caught in a conveyor-belting while cleaning clay from a pulley, and was killed. In work of this kind it is necessary that the clay be removed as the work proceeds without stopping the machinery ; on the instructions of the Department, however, automatic scrapers have been attached to the pulleys, and all pulleys have been protected by safety appliances.

Number of j Number of Year. Factories I Movement. Factory j Movement, registered, j j Workers. 1913-14 (before the war) .. 13,469 94 (increase) 87,517 919 (increase). 1914-15 .. .. .. 13,937 468 „ 88,812 1,295 1915-16 (since the war began).. 13,214 723 (decrease) 83,011 5,801 (decrease). 1916-17 „ .. 12,455 759 „ 78,188 4,823 1917-18 „ .. 12,485 30 (increase) 79,653 1,465 (increase). 1918-19 „ .. 12,444 41 (decrease) 82,783 3,130 „ 1919-20 (after the war) .. 13,490 1,046 (increase) 85,591 2,808 „ 1920-21 „ .. 13,661 171 „ 96,603 11,012 1921-22 „ .. 14,013 352 „ 96,980 377 1922-23 „ .. 14,535 522 „ 92,608 4,372 (decrease). 1923-24 „ .. 15,009 474 „ 97,731 5,123 (increase). 1924-25 „ .. 15,868 859 „ 99,423 1,692

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(3.) A whaler was bailing oil from a vat when he slipped into the hot refuse left in the vat; he was badly scalded oil both legs and other portions of his body, and died the following day. Instructions have been issued to provide platforms with suitable guard-rails for workers engaged in emptying the vats, and this has been done at all whaling-stations. (4.) In a brickworks it was the practice to disconnect the belting running from the countershaft to the brick-press by means of a piece of timber. It is presumed that instead of following this practice an engineer attempted to remove the belting by means of his hands or feet, and was caught in the belt and carried around the shaft a number of times. (5.) The son of the proprietor of a brewery fell into a vat containing water heated to about 190°. It is thought from the circumstances that the deceased was manipulating the tap of a barrel containing cold water and overbalanced, falling on to the top of the hot-water vat, which was partly covered by a board; the barrel of cold water also fell, and the additional weight broke the board, allowing the worker to fall in. He was found to be badly scalded about the hips and body; internal complications set in, with fatal results. Medical opinion at the inquest indicated that he would have recovered had it not been for the abdominal injuries sustained in a motor accident a few days previously. (6.) A worker was engaged in dusting down an 11,000-volt switchboard, and proceeded to carry out this work on a portion of the equipment not included in his instructions ; this caused him to come in contact with a " live " part of the switchboard. He sustained shock and severe burns, from which he died. (7.) An employee in an electric-power house received a shock from a portable lamp which he was using, and died from heart-failure. This matter was dealt with by the Public Works Department under their regulations. (8.) A worker in a fellmongery department of a freezing-works received a cut on his right hand; a few days later the wound became septic, and tetanus supervened, from which the worker died. This case was regarded as unusual, tetanus usually being conveyed from the ground and not likely to be contracted in fellmongery work. (9.) A stoker in a gasworks was fatally scalded in the following manner : Under the firebars of the furnaces at the gasworks there was a pool formed by water which was allowed to trickle over the firebars to prevent them from burning too quickly ; in front of the furnace was a pit, 6 ft. deep, which the deceased entered for the purpose of clinkering the fire ; this pit gave access to the ashpit extending under the firebars of the furnace. The deceased removed four of the firebars, and it is surmised that the hot ashes fell suddenly into the water, causing a rush of steam and ashes to the outer pit where the deceased was standing. Immediately after the accident the Department issued safety notices to be posted in all gasworks, advising stokers to see that there is no water in the ashpits before removing the firebars for clinkering. Factory Hygiene. In last year's report I mentioned that we had arranged with a number of occupiers of factories in the principal towns of the Dominion to keep returns of the temperature, humidity of the air, and other factors that are likely to affect the daily output of workers. These returns are not yet complete, the requisite hygrometers not having arrived from England early enough to give us a clear year's figures ; some useful information should be available next year. The First International Labour Conference, which met at Washington in October, 1919, as the result of portion of the Peace Treaty, resolved that the International Labour Office should draw up a list of the principal manufacturing processes that might be considered as unhealthy. That office has found it impossible to immediately compile an international list, but has decided to collect and publish all information that will enable experts and authorities to deal with unhealthy processes in the various countries. The first publication has just been issued and deals with several occupations that are likely to cause disease. Of those mentioned only two are carried on in New Zealand : (1) the use of mercury (by jewellers, electric-appliance manufacturers, scientific-implement makers, &c.) ; (2) the use of gas or gaseous fuels which may result in carbon-monoxide poisoning. It may be added that there is power in the Act to make regulations on the subject should the necessity be shown. As a result of representations made by the tannery and woollen-mill employees, investigations were made during the year, in conjunction with the Health Department, into the question of chrome poisoning in these mills. It was found that several workers had suffered from eczema due to the handling of chromium preparations, but no cases of deep ulceration were found. Cautionary notices have, however, been issued for posting in factories where chrome poisoning is likely to occur, drawing the attention of enrployers and workers to the measures that should be taken to prevent poisoning and the methods of dealing with it should poisoning occur. Chrome ulceration has also been added to the list of diseases to which the Workers' Compensation Act applies. As stated last year, inquiries were then being made into the large proportion of cuts received by workers in freezing-works that become septic. It was found that the cause of septic poisoning in many cases was neglect on the part of the workers to have the wounds properly cleansed and dressed. All these factories are required to provide first-aid appliances with the necessary antiseptics in order that the cuts that are so frequently received by slaughtermen may be properly treated. Cautionary notices have also been issued for posting in all factories, drawing attention to the results of neglect to have even slight cuts properly attended to, and also explaining the best methods of treatment. Welfare op Women Workers. In the course of their general duties the women Factory Inspectors in the chief centres have paid attention to the welfare of women workers, and report an increase in the number of schemes of welfare instituted by factory and shop occupiers, largely in the direction of provision of rest-rooms,

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of cooking facilities, simple washing conveniences, and first-aid appliances. In many large factories social halls, with piano, libraries, &c., are now set aside for the use of workers. In Auckland an association has been formed connected with soft-goods houses (wholesale, retail, and manufacturing) with the object of promoting the health of the girls employed ; nine firms have taken the matter up with enthusiasm, and it is proposed to extend the project to other businesses. As an example of what may be done it might be mentioned that one firm lias founded a rest home —a large cottage at one of the seaside resorts having been purchased to be used by the employees as a convalescent or rest home. There is, of course, yet much scope for improvement generally, but the work already done and the excellent results obtained should encourage an extension of the provisions. Steps have been taken to extend the system by which Inspectors of Factories act in conjunction with the Health Officers in enforcing hygienic conditions in food-factories, and it is noticed, as an example of more hygienic methods, that in confectionery-factories the practice of wearing uniforms has generally been adopted. Attention has been given to the question of improved seats in clothing-factories, and many occupiers have now provided seats with back-rests.

Certificates of Fitness issued to Boys and Girls under Sixteen Years of Age to Work in Factories.

Inspections. Inspectors paid 12,500 visits of inspection to factories during the year, as compared with 10,504 during the previous year. Prosecutions numbered 62, in 56 of which convictions were obtained. No case calls for comment; fines totalling £94 were imposed. During the year complaints were received respecting 187 specific alleged breaches of the Act, resulting in 13 prosecutions and 72 warnings; while 1,465 other breaches were discovered by the Inspectors themselves, for which 49 prosecutions were instituted and 1,257 warnings were given, the latter breaches being either first offences or of a minor nature. There were 1,079 requisitions served to comply with various requirements of the Act, such as for limewashing, safeguards for workers employed on machinery, &c., sanitary conveniences, fire-escapes, heating-appliances, ventilation, lighting, first-aid appliances, washing and drinking water, and diningrooms in the case of establishments employing over six women and girls and boys under sixteen. Proposed Amendments. Though this Act was consolidated in 1921 it has not been revised since 1901, and the Act has therefore, like the Shops and Offices Act of 1921, been brought up to date in a new measure. The only amendment of note suggested is that recommended in last year's report for the control of work given out by factory occupiers to be done, in workers' homes. The amendment asked for by the order-tailoring trade (employers and workers) for the regulation of the sale of garments to measure has been effected by a regulation under the Board of Trade Act (see page 17). SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT. Visits of inspection to the number of 13,510 were made during the year, as compared with 11,938 last year. Prosecutions numbered 197, and convictions were obtained in 186 cases. The sum of £239 lis. in fines was imposed. No case calls for special comment. During the year complaints were received respecting 303 specific alleged breaches of the Act, resulting in 34 prosecutions and 144 warnings; while 1,331 other breaches were discovered by the Inspectors themselves, for which 163 prosecutions were instituted and 1,031 warnings were given, the latter breaches being of a minor nature or first offences. One hundred and sixty-three requisitions were served on occupiers of shops to comply with various requirements of the Act, such as for cleansing, sanitary conveniences, heating-appliances, ventilation, and drinking-water. Under the 1920 amendment of the Act the Court of Arbitration was empowered, when making an award relating to the employment of shop-assistants under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, to fix also the closing-hours of shops under the Shops and Offices Act in the same trades

L | | j| i Year. Boys. I Girls. Total. Year. j Boys. | Girls. Total. I I II . 1' . "'I. :•'■! : ' I ! >. . 1913-14 .. .. 932 1,241 2,173 1919-20 .. .. 1,252 1,685 2,937 1914-15 .. .. 952 1,136 2,088 1920-21 .. .. 1,267 1,368 2,635 1915-16 .. .. 1.100 1,263 2,363 1921-22 .. .. 962 1,286 2,248 1916-17 .. .. 1,158 1,251 2,409 1922-23 .. .. 995 1,530 2,525 1917-18 .. .. 1,199 1,236 2,435 1923-24 .. .. 1,156 1,445 2,601 1918-19 .. .. 1,240. 1,333 2,573 1924-25 .. .. 1,259 1,277 2,536

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or businesses whether or not assistants were employed therein. This provision was made on account of complaints by shopkeepers with assistants that in order to release their assistants at the times fixed by the awards they were compelled to close their shops while smaller shops in the vicinity and in the same trades could be kept open. A number of awards have accordingly been made fixing the closing-hours, and in consequence a considerable number of complaints have been received from the occupiers of the small shops : this has occurred particularly since the general shop-assistants' award was made covering most of the Dominion. The Court is already empowered to grant exemption to such shops if " undue hardship " is shown, but it is suggested that this provision might with advantage on the whole to all concerned, and in the public interest, be amended, first, to authorize the granting of exemptions where it is shown that unfair competition with other shopkeepers would not be caused and also having regard to the public interest, and, second, to place the consideration of exemptions in the hands of local Magistrates, who, being continuously on the spot, are better able to deal with such detail matters than the Court itself, whose functions extend over the whole Dominion. INDUSTRIAL CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION ACT. 1923-24. 11)24-25. Industrial agreements filed .. . . .. .. 18 22 Recommendations of Councils of Conciliation .. . . . . 118 153 Awards of the Court of Arbitration .. .. . . 91 135 The awards and industrial agreements actually in force on the 31st March, 1925, total 488 (last year 551). The continued reduction in the number of awards and agreements in force is accounted for by the fact that industrial associations (of unions) have taken advantage of the provisions in the 1922 amendment enabling them to apply for awards covering two or more industrial districts (commonly called " Dominion " awards) ; twenty-five such awards have been made taking the place of a considerably larger number of district or local awards. The number of members of workers' unions has increased during the year by 2,384, from 94,438 to 96,822, showing that while the number of awards and agreements in force is less they nevertheless cover a larger number of persons. The increase in the number of recommendations of Councils of Conciliation and awards of the Court of Arbitration made during the year is accounted for by the fact that, following the expiration of the cost-of-living legislation, and the resumption of the normal methods of settling disputes, unions and associations have filed a greater number of applications with a view to obtaining increases in the minimum rates of wages and other benefits.

Work performed by Commissioners and Councils of Conciliation during the Year.

Out of the total of 171 disputes dealt with by the Commissioners and Conciliation Councils, 145 (equal to 84-79 per cent.) were thus settled or substantially settled by them without recourse to the Court of Arbitration. The proportion so settled last year was 92-3, and the previous year 78-98. Registrations of Industrial Associations and Unions. The usual statutory return (to the 31st December, 1924) of the associations and unions registered under the Act, with their membership at that date, is published herewith as an Appendix. Comparison with the previous year shows that the total number of workers' unions has decreased by two (due to the absorption of some of the smaller unions into larger bodies), but the total membership has increased by 2,384.

i Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner T , . P. Hally. W. Newton. ' W. H. Hagger.: iota1 ' : . | r I I Industrial agreements arrived at and filed as such 5 2 10 17 under section 26 by parties through the Commissioner alone Disputes dealt with by Conciliation Councils — Where industrial agreements were filed under sec- 1 .. . . I tion 26. Where recommendations were fully accepted and 30 12 42 84 forwarded to the Court to be made into awards Where recommendations were substantially ac- 11 21 11 43 cepted or agreements reached and referred to g§* I it:. Court to make awards fg* r .r. Where only minor recommendation or no recom- 4 11 11 26 mendation was made Totals .. .. .. .. 51 46 74 171

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Prosecutions. There were 285 prosecutions for breaches of awards and agreements other than stoppages of work, 238 against employers and 47 against workers; 241 convictions were recorded, 1!)7 against employers and 44 against workers ; 25 prosecutions were taken for miscellaneous breaches of the Act other than strikes, 23 against employers and 2 against workers ; 23 convictions were obtained, 22 against employers and 1 against a worker ; 315 workers were fined for striking or otherwise ceasing employment, and 1 union and 1 worker were fined for instigating such cessations of work. Union Accounts. There has been no occasion during the year to call for an audit of the accounts of any union ; a few instances have been brought under the notice of unions, however, of small amounts of union funds being used for purposes not authorized by the Act. Legal Decisions of Interest. (1.) Incapacity of Apprentice. —The permanent incapacity of an apprentice terminates a contract of apprenticeship, but temporary incapacity does not, and during any temporary incapacity wages must be paid unless the award or contract authorizes deductions to be made, or until the contract is terminated ; continued absence may form a ground for terminating it. In a number of cases provision is now made authorizing deductions during absence caused by sickness. (2.) Membership of Union- Where a union's right to preference depended on its rules providing for the admission to membership of any person " of good character and sober habits," a provision in the rules permitting a refusal to admit a person of quarrelsome, violent, and aggressive temperament did not deprive the union of that right, the term " good character " being properly given a wide meaning. It was also held that although a union's right to preference depends on its rules complying with the conditions upon which preference was granted, a deliberate infraction of the rules may disentitle the union to preference. (3.) Membership of Union. —Under the recent Waterside Workers' award an interesting innovation was made by the Court of Arbitration in order to decasualize waterside work as far as possible. The award provides for the usual preference for members of the unions affiliated to the Waterside Workers' Association notwithstanding that by agreement with the employers the association may have fixed a limit to the total number of workers that may belong to its affiliated unions. Hitherto and in all cases preference has been granted only on condition that membership was open to all workers of good character and sober habits on payment of reasonable entrance fees and subscriptions. Industrial Disturbances. There were fifty-one industrial disturbances during the year, of which forty-three may be classed as unimportant or trivial. The following is a brief summary of the remaining eight disturbances : — (l. 1 ! Stale Coal-miners, Rewanui. —For using abusive language to an underviewer a miner was not permitted to start work, and one hundred men ceased work in protest, but resumed the following day. Proceedings were taken under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and penalties were imposed. (2.) Coal-miners, Hilcurangi.—The action of the mine-manager in dismissing a worker whose coaloutput was not considered sufficient was regarded as victimization, and 250 men ceased work in protest. After a cessation of a month the union admitted mistake, and work was resumed upon the company's complying with a request to reinstate the man dismissed. It was decided not to take proceedings for the breach that occurred. (3.) Railway Employees (Government). —Approximately twelve thousand Railway servants of the Second Division, the majority of whom were members of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, went on strike at midnight on Easter Monday last year with the object of securing increased wages and improved conditions of employment; practically all railway traffic was stopped and many persons were unable to return from their holidays ; a number of trains were, however, run and the number rapidly increased. Within a few days a disinclination to continue the strike manifested itself among the men, and upon the Government's refusal to discuss demands until the men returned to work the strike was called off, eight days after its commencement. A tribunal was then set up by the Government to examine the grievances of the men, and its report was duly adopted by Cabinet. Amongst the items was an offer of increased weekly pay for longer hours of work to workshops employees ; a ballot of these workers resulted in a continuation of the existing fortv-four-hours week. No breach of the Act occurred, as the men were employees of the Crown. (4.) Coal-miners, Ohai and Nightcaps. —The owners charged the men in three safety-lamp mines with the cost of electric detonators, which during the currency of the former award it had been the custom to supply free ; the owners considered that concessions in the new award had been given in lieu thereof ; 197 miners ceased work for a period of fourteen days and fifty later ceased work for a further period of six days. At a conference of the employers and the workers, the workers demanded a review of twenty-eight clauses of the new award ; the employers agreed to pay an extra 2d. per ton on the tonnage rates to cover the cost of the detonators, and the men returned to work. Proceedings were instituted for the first stoppage, and penalties were imposed. (5.) Coal-miners, Ohai. —Seventy Linton coal-miners ceased work and demanded an increase in pillar and solid rates fixed by the new award ; their demands were partially conceded, and they returned to work after an absence of eighteen days. As the men were already being prosecuted for a previous stoppage —aide (4) above —no action was taken.

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(6.) Coal-miners, Paparoa. —Owing to a breakdown on the rope-road and the refusal, of the brakesman on the day shift to work overtime, the supply of empty tubs wa*s stopped, and in consequence no work could take place on the back shift. As the company refused to pay for the time lost, eighty miners ceased work ; after a lapse of twenty-one days, and upon securing a favourable settlement from the company, they resumed work. Proceedings were taken against the men under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, but were subsequently withdrawn. (7.) Coal-miners, State Mines.—Members of the union employed on Government co-operative contracts refused to terminate them at the request of the union, whereupon the other members (approximately 250) ceased work. After a cessation of nine days the co-operative contractors requested the cancellation of their contracts, and, this being granted, work was resumed. (8.) Stage Employees, WMngton.—Trior to an evening performance the secretary of the union called eight stage employees from their work on the ground that another employee was performing duties in contravention of the terms of the award ; the same evening the men offered to resume, but were not required. Proceedings taken under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act against the secretary for instigating an unlawful strike resulted in the imposition of a penalty. Waterside Workers.—Comment might also be made regarding the refusal of a considerable number of waterside workers at several ports to accept employment on the wharves : this appears to have originated from a desire on the part of the men to show their disapproval of the rates of wages prescribed by the new Waterside Workers award. In a number of other cases disputes arose regarding the rates to be paid for certain special cargoes ; it is assumed that these disputes were mostly connected with the larger issue above mentioned. Although conditions of labour on the waterfront were considerably disorganized for a time, there was no disturbance of serious dimensions, and the movement subsided. It will be seen that most of the disputes that gave rise to these disturbances did not relate to the main question of the rates of wages, hours of employment, &c., but to minor differences occurring in the course of employment. General. In view of numbers of complaints and conflicting opinions as to the efficacy of an arbitration system for the settlement of industrial disputes, it may be worth while again noting that the New Zealand Act is not truly compulsory—it does not apply to the workers in an industry unless they elect to register under it; if they do not so elect they automatically "come under the Labour Disputes Investigation Act, which requires a short period—-about three weeks--to elapse for investigation of the dispute and for a ballot to be taken by a Government official before a strike or lockout may take place. Only three disputes occurred under this Act during the year, while there were 171 dealt with under ..the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act; this is typical of previous years. In a recent English publication on New Zealand the Hon. Pember Peeves, who is regarded as the founder of the New Zealand conciliation and arbitration system, made, inter alia, the following pertinent remarks : That few Acts have been so widely attacked ; the fact that it has held its ground for thirty years and is still in full operation is tribute to its principles ; that the fact that grumbling occurs is not a proof that the awards thereunder are unjust—rather that they are fair; that disturbances occur in respect of only a very few awards ; that the only news from New Zealand received in England is that of an occasional strike ; that even so the strikes do not assume the magnitude reached elsewhere ; that no other country where labour is organized can show anything like such comforting figures. The Minister of Labour in the late English Labour Government has also expressed the opinion that arbitration is becoming more and more practical as a method of settling industrial disputes. It might perhaps be said that the real grievance amongst the workers that complain is not so much against the Act and its administration as against the general economic system, there being nothing in the Act to correlate wages with prices and other matters affecting the cost and standard of living. Tn several countries of Europe there have in recent years been set up national bodies representing the employers, workers, and the public generally ; in Germany, for example, there is the Economic Council, and in Belgium the Supreme Labour Council, on which the Government, employers, and workers have equal representation. It is understood that similar bodies are likely to be set up in France and Austria. Recently, too, a British Industrial Institute has been set up, comprising employers, representatives of trade-unions, commercial and financial men, and others ; the object of the Institute is to investigate the fundamental problems of industry. It is noticed, further, that in the United States of America a National Civic Federation held an " industrial round table " meeting in New York, comprising representatives of great industries and organized labour, to consider the elimination of industrial waste and the minimization of industrial strife ; also that similar meetings are being organized in other cities. Co-partnerships and Profit-sharing. The Companies Empowering Bill that was passed into law last session was a small measure, but one containing far-reaching possibilities respecting the industrial situation as between capital and labour. 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Empowering Bill was prepared. The measure, on being taken over by the Government, was passed, with minor alterations to meet the possible objection that workers might be induced to enter into obligations resulting in extra output without corresponding extra remuneration or other advantage ; this was effected by providing that before adoption the scheme shall be certified to by the Court of Arbitration as being favourable to the workers concerned. Power is also given to the Court to cancel the arrangement at any time if it finds that the scheme is no longer favourable to the worker, or if any other sufficient reason has arisen for cancellation ; in such a case the amounts to the credit of the labour shareholders would then be paid in cash to them, or ordinary capital shares to the value of the accrued share of profits would be allotted to them. It is thus ensured that the workers shall not be placed in a less favourable position than before. It is specially pointed out by the promoter of the Bill that in any case the workers' share of the profits would be a matter for agreement beforehand between the parties ; that any particular scheme that does not carry out the spirit of the Act (which is to give " labour " better status and emolument), would very soon defeat its own purpose, for men will not give better value unless there is a real advantage ; also that the principle underlying the measure was a more equitable distribution of the profits as well as a share in control. He also stresses in particular the necessity, when entering into a co-partnership agreement with the employees, of ensuring that the conditions hitherto existing (such as the rates of wages and all other conditions that may be specified in an award or industrial agreement, and including their membership of industrial unions) should not be interfered with. It will thus be seen that the workers should in any case have nothing to lose under the scheme. I understand that there is no legislation in any part of the British Empire giving a definite legal status to labour in respect of a share in the profits and in control or management of business. A Bill on these lines is, however, before the British Parliament. The New Zealand Act now enables a company, if it wishes, to enter into an arrangement with its employees for the issue of labour shares for which the sole qualification is personal service. These shares do not require payment therefor, and thus have in themselves no original money value, but they give the employees a predetermined share in the profits, and also a share in all the other privileges of ordinary shareholders —such as a voice in the directorate —as may be agreed on when the arrangement is entered into. The apportionment of profits, after payment of net interest, &c., that would be agreed on might, for example, be in the ratio of 50 per cent, to the capital shareholders and 50 per cent, to the labour shareholders ; the latter portion would then be divided as determined in the agreement. Each worker's share of the profits given to the labour shareholders is usually in proportion to his salary or wages ; here again it should be borne in mind that all persons working for the company would be eligible to be labour shareholders. It will be seen that the only actual money value attachable to these shares is that acquired by profits accruing to the holders, and that these profits would be either payable in cash or utilized in acquiring ordinary capital shares, as provided in the agreement. It might at first sight be claimed that investors would not care to become shareholders under such conditions, but it is stated in answer that investors would have a more sure, though limited, return for their outlay through the increased efficiency obtained by placing the employees in a position where their interests are more nearly at one with those of the ordinary capital shareholders ; that, moreover, they would secure more contented and more continuous service ; it is pointed out, too, that the increase in industrial activity would be a great community benefit. Support for this answer is contained in the recent remarks of the United States Secretary of Commerce, it was stated by him, inter alia, that 30 per cent, of the national effort was wasted ; that a new relationship in industry was taking place; that ownership was being largely divorced from management, and labour's responsibility in the management of industry was growing. The following remarks by the late Prime Minister (the Right. Hon. Mr. Massey) when the above Bill was introduced to Parliament might be quoted here : — " During the past fifty years many sincere and intelligent attempts have been made to solve the problems which arise when the two great factors in industry, capital and labour, come into conflict. It is becoming increasingly clear that most of such attempts have been barren of lasting result. Efforts to heal wounds and arrange settlement after the casus belli has been given and battle joined can only end in an armed truce. The solution must lie in some scheme which is designed to prevent conflict arising. Throughout the world, in the drift of opinion and the crystallization of ideas there seems to have emerged a belief that the conflict may be eliminated if the interests of both sides can be reduced to terms of partnership. When both parties are fighting for the same interests they constitute the same side. If this identity of interest can be made a real thing as between capital and labour, as it is a real thing from the point of view of the community at large, then a great and important advance will have been made. National production and national prosperity would immediately respond. The Government welcomes the efforts of such citizens as Mr. H. Yalder to make co-partnership a genuine success. The proposals he makes go much further than a monetary inducement to make peace. They are founded on a belief in abstract justice, and are inspired by a spirit of fair play. They are, moreover, reduced to the terms of a business proposition. It is in the hope that Mr. Yalder and other employers of labour will continue their experiments along the lines of real partnership that the Government has introduced the Companies Empowering Bill. The man who propounds a substantial solution to our industrial troubles will have earned the everlasting gratitude of Ms country. Every experiment is a step towards the goal." The New Zealand Act has attracted attention in England, where the Financial Times, London, of the Bth November last, made a review of the measure. It quotes the New Zealand author's own remark that there is serious internal strife in the industrial world which is fatal to permanent prosperity; that there is a latent potential factor in industry not hitherto developed- —viz.,

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the enthusiasm, interest, and zeal of the employee ; that a large volume of time and energy that should be devoted to production is expended in conflict ; it goes on to point out that a mere division of profits is not enough, and that the only way to give labour a responsible view is to give it a voice in administration. In connection with the question of the establishment of mutual interest in industry and business between the employer and the worker, some of the recent expressions of opinion in England might be mentioned. Viscount Grey has expressed the view that the most important question at the moment in Great Britain is the relation between capital and labour, and that it transcends in importance all other questions. In the shipbuilding industry there the employers have, in consequence of the great loss of business to themselves and loss of employment, for their employees on account of the competition of European countries, met representatives of the shipbuilding trade-unions to discuss means by which in their mutual interest they can meet such competition. Stress was laid at the meetings on the importance of employers and workers both knowing the full facts of the situation ; it was also conceded by the employers that wages should be adjusted, from time to time "in accordance with the ability of the industry to pay." It was stated, too, that the only hope of reaching a settlement as between capital and labour was by recognizing labour as something more than a machine, working without any voice in the manner of conducting the work. It was asserted by a prominent Labour member that if the workers were given an interest in their work there would be no disastrous strikes or lockouts.

DISPUTES DEALT WITH UNDER THE LABOUR DISPUTES INVESTIGATION ACT.

This Act permits of strikes and lookouts taking place provided there is no award or industrial agreement in force under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and provided that a certain period—about three weeks —has been allowed for an investigation and for a ballot on the question at issue. Only twenty-four unions have had their disputes dealt with under the Act since its inception in 1913. There are now ten agreements in operation under that Act, while there are 488 awards and industrial agreements in force. It will be noticed that all the disputes dealt with last year were settled without any strike taking place and without the necessity for ballots on the question of striking or accepting any recommendations made. Arising out of the disputes filed under the Act since its inception to date only four ballots have been necessary, and in none of these cases did a strike take place in pursuance of such a ballot. Inquiry has been made in those cases where the disputes were referred to Labour Dispute Committees to ascertain how far the votes of the chairmen of the committees had been essential to the settlement of the disputes. As far as can be gathered no dispute was settled by the vote of the chairman, except that in four cases some minor matter, and in one case an important item in the claims, were left in his hands for decision ; when the decision was given a full settlement resulted in each case. The section in the Act giving the chairman of the committee a casting-vote on the agreement of both parties appears so far to have been unnecessary, the representatives of the parties on the committees having been themselves able, with the assistance of the chairmen, to reach agreement. This fact, together with the fact that under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 85 per cent, of the disputes were settled, or substantially so, by Conciliation Councils (on which the Conciliation Commissioners have no vote) goes to support the view that a " round-the-table " discussion, even amongst sharply conflicting interests, in most cases results in agreement being reached. It may be mentioned that in nearly every case dealt with under the Labour Disputes Investigation Act the parties on one side or the other were not agreeable to the chairman being given a casting-vote. APPRENTICES ACT, 1923. As this Act establishes various new features in the industrial legislation of the Dominion regarding the future supply of labour for the skilled trades, and has now completed its first year in operation, it may be desirable to state what has so far been done under the provisions referred to. The Act applies generally to all apprenticeships of the kind hitherto covered by awards and industrial agreements under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, although the Court has power to extend to other cases ; no such extension has yet been made. The Act provides : — First, that an Apprenticeship Committee may be formed in any industry or group of industries in any locality by agreement between any organizations of employers and workers ; and the Court is also given power either to appoint a committee, or to alter the constitution of a committee, for

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example, where the committee may not be properly representative (no occasion has yet arisen for the exercise of the Court's power in this respect). The accompanying table shows the industries in which committees have been set up.

As above stated, the Act permits of the committees being formed, in the respective industries, in any particular localities, and accordingly all of the committees have been set up for either specified towns or for districts. Sixty-four such committees have been formed, covering twenty-two industries. In only nine of the committees have separate chairmen been appointed (such as architects, or officers of the Department), the committees apparently preferring to ask one of their own members to act; in several instances an employers' representative and a workers' representative act alternately. In eight of the committees the chairmen have been given deciding votes. There are only a few industries in which apprenticeships have hitherto been provided for and in which no Apprenticeship Committees have been formed or orders of the Court made ; for example, chemists' assistants (whose training is specially provided for by the Pharmacy Act), coopers, cycleworkers, gardeners, horse-shoers, boat-builders, wicker-workers, glass-workers, beamsmen, and curriers. Second, the Court is required to make general orders fixing the wages, hours, and other conditions of employment of apprentices, also the periods of apprenticeship, the minimum (not the maximum) age at which an apprenticeship may commence, and the proportion of apprentices to journeymen. Orders have accordingly been made in the industries shown in the above table ; nearly every item in the orders was agreed on by the parties. Wages : Under many of these orders the wages of apprentices have been considerably increased compared with those in existence in the former awards and industrial agreements under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. Three Wellington examples are — Award. Apprenticeship Order. Baking and pastrycooking .. . . . 26/6 to 64/- 30/- to 80/Painting .. .. .. .. .. 14/6 to 48/6 20,/- to 65/Tailoring .. .. .. .. .. 13/6 to 47/6 15/- to 55/In regard to the periods of apprenticeship it was anticijiated that some decreases might take place in view of the fact that on account of the use of machinery and specialization the various crafts do not call for the same amount of training as formerly; it was also asserted that the lengthy periods of apprenticeships tended to discourage boys from becoming apprentices which necessitates their being

(Note.- In each case, except where indicated, an apprenticeship order of the Court of Arbitration has also been made fixing the general conditions of employment of apprentices.) Industries. Districts where there are Committees. Baking and pastrycooking .. Wellington. Boilermaking .. . . .. Wellington, Wanganui,* Palmerston North,* Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin. Bootmaking .. . . .. Auckland, Wellington Canterbury, Otago, and Southland. Bricklaying .. .. . . Auckland, Wanganui, Palmerston North,* North Canterbury. Carpentering and joinery . . . . Auckland, Taranaki,* Gisborne,* Wellington, Wanganui, Hawke's Bay, Palmerston North,* Masterton,* Nelson, North Canterbury, South Canterbury. Coachbuilding .. .. . . Wellington. Electrical working . . . . Auckland, Wellington, Wanganui, Canterbury. Engineering .. . . . . Wellington, Gisborne,* Wanganui,* Nelson, Palmerston North,* Westland,* Christchurch, Dunedin. Furniture trades.. .. .. Auckland, Wellington, Wanganui, Westland,* Canterbury. Jewellery and watchmaking . . Wellington. Leadlight and glass working . . Canterbury.* Letterpress, lithographing, and book- Gisborne.* binding Masonry (stone and monumental) .. Auckland, Wanganui. Motor engineering . . . . Gisborne,* Westland.* Moulding .. . . .. Wellington, Nelson, Wanganui,* Christchurch, Dunedin. Painting . . . . .. Auckland, Gisborne,* Wellington, Wanganui, Hawke's Bay, Palmerston North,* Masterton,* Nelson, North Canterbury. Plumbing and gasfitting .. . . Auckland, Hamilton, Whangarei, Gisborne,* Wellington, Palmerston North,* Nelson,* Christchurch, Oamaru.* Plastering .. . . .. Auckland, Wellington, Wanganui, Canterbury. Saddlery .. . . . . Auckland. Tailoring .. . . .. Wellington, Wanganui, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland. Tinsmithing . . .. .. Auckland. Typography . . . . .. Gisborne.* * No order yet made.

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bound from the ages of about fifteen to twenty. In no case; however, has a decrease in the period been yet made ; on the in two industries, baking and pastrycooking and electrical workings the period has (by agreement, of the committees) been increased from four to five years. The minimum age at which apprenticeships may commence lias not been altered to any extent. The Act, however, removes the authority formerly contained in the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act to fix the maximum age ; in fact, it makes special provision under which adults may become apprentices subject to conditions to be approved by the respective apprenticeship committees. This provision was inserted to meet the statement that in past years a considerable number of boys have failed to become skilled workers, and have drifted into " blind-alley " work, attracted partly by the lure of the immediately higher wages there obtained, and also by the greater freedom of movement associated with such work, compared with the restrictions placed upon apprentices. Approval has been given by the committees to such apprenticeships in several instances, after being satisfied that the wages, period, and other conditions are fair. In respect to the proportion of apprentices to journeymen the Act makes a departure from the previous practice, in that the Court is required in the first place to fix the proportion for the industry as a whole in the locality, leaving the number for any particular employer to be more or less according to his ability or facilities for teaching; the latter jurisdiction may be delegated to the committee if one is formed, and this has been done in every case. The proportion of apprentices for the industry as a whole is therefore now merely an average one. In pursuance of this authority permission to take apprentices has been refused to a number of employers, for example, on account of the lack of facilities for teaching, or until the employers are able to show that they are sufficiently established in business to continue as employers. In one instance the committee refused permission to apprentice a boy to a branch of the furniture trade on the ground that it was not a suitable industry in which to train apprentices ; in another case the committee refused to authorize an employer in the building trade to take an apprentice as it considered that the employer was not a legitimate builder. In an order of the Court for motor engineering the taking of apprentices is subject to the committee concerned being satisfied in each case that the shop is sufficiently equipped for the training of apprentices. Third, an important new provision is contained in section 5 (4) (a), which empowers the Court to require any employer or employers to employ a minimum number of apprentices in order to ensure an adequate future supply of journeymen. In making any such order the Court is required to take into account any recommendation made by the committee (if any) concerncd. In this connection a return was compiled last year and submitted to the Court and to the respective committees ; this showed that, in the sixteen chief towns, while 6,901 apprentices were then employed, the maximum proportion that had been fixed by the awards and industrial agreements under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act would have allowed of 8,022 additional apprentices, there being 22,086 journeymen (including working employers) engaged ; in only two trades, plumbing and gasfitting, and jewellery and watchmaking, did the number approach the maximum allowed. A further return just compiled as for April, 1925, shows no material alteration in the position, the number of apprentices being still 1 to every 3-2 journeymen. In the building trades, which are generally assumed to have been short of skilled labour, the following proportions are shown as employed : Bricklaying, 1 apprentice to 4-5 journeymen; carpentering and joinery, 1 apprentice to 3-9 journeymen ; painting, 1 apprentice to 5-4 journeymen ; plastering, 1 apprentice to 3-2 journeymen ; plumbing and gasfitting, 1 apprentice to 2-1 journeymen. It is a question for the Court and committees to consider whether these proportions are sufficient to provide the supply of skilled labour likely to be required for the future ; this year's information will be forwarded to the Court and to the committees concerned. Fourth, the Court may also exercise the following powers, or may delegate them to the respective committees ; the Court has in its orders delegated these functions to the committees accordingly where the latter have been set up : — Section 5 (4) (b.) : To cancel any contract of apprenticeship ; for instance, where the committee is satisfied that the apprentice is not suited to the industry. (No orders have so far been issued under this provision.) (c.) To prohibit an employer from employing apprentices. (Action to this effect was taken by the committees concerned in several instances —see second paragraph on this page.) (d.) To order the transfer of any apprentice to another employer who is willing to take him— for example, where the committee considers that better or further training can thus be obtained. (No orders yet issued.) (e.) Where the committee considers that the original employer should give better training than hitherto it may order him to do so. (A case in the furniture trade involving two apprentices was considered by the committee concerned, which held over further action till later. A case against a plasterer, who had, in the opinion of the committee, failed to properly teach an apprentice was referred to the District Registrar ; as the apprenticeship contract had not been registered, legal proceedings were taken for that offence, and a conviction was obtained ; the apprentice was then placed with another employer. Another case occurred in the carpentering and joinery trade, when a delegation of the committee interviewed the firm and the matter was amicably settled.) (/.) To fix the period of probation for each industry. It was considered by many that the usual period hitherto fixed in awards and agreements under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act (three months) was too short, and, moreover, that it should vary according to circumstances ; power was therefore inserted in this section to fix the period for each industry or for any apprentice. (The period has accordingly been extended in several industries to four and six months.)

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(g.) To order the attendance of apprentices at technical schools either in their Own time, of, if sufficient facilities for complete training are not provided by an employer, in the employer's time. (In two industries the apprentices in the locality were ordered to attend the technical schools (in their own time), extra remuneration being provided for upon their obtaining satisfactory certificates as to the progress made ; no orders have been reported requiring employers to give time off to their apprentices to attend the schools.) (h.) To order examinations of apprentices. (No specific orders appear to have been made, although the question has been under consideration.) (Jc.) To visit and inquire at any place where apprentices are employed as to the progress of the apprentices. If the committee delegates its powers in this respect it must be to one member each representing the employers and the workers acting together. (Forty-one such visits have been reported.) The Act also empowers the various District Registrars to visit employers' places of business for the purpose of seeing whether the Act, regulations, and orders of the Court or committees are being complied with, and, as there is at times some hesitation on the part of one employer (member of a committee) to inspect the work of another employer, the District Registrars are occasionally asked to make the inspections desired by the committees. (Accordingly some sixty-eight inspections have been made by District Registrars, in addition to those made by them in the course of their general inspection of factories, &c.) There is a right of appeal by any party affected against the decision of a committee. (No appeals have so far been made.) Other provisions : Section 8 requires that every apprenticeship to which the Act applies shall, if in order, be registered by the District Registrar of Apprentices. (Under this provision 1,560 new apprenticeship contracts were registered during the year.) The District Registrar may refuse to register in any case if he considers the Act or regulations, or any order of the Court or committee, has not been complied with. (Six applications were refused on these grounds.) He may also, if he thinks fit for any other reason, withhold registration and refer the question to the committee (or the Court if there is no committee), and shall be guided by their decision. (In one instance an application for registration was referred to the committee, and finally refused on the ground that the industry proposed was not a suitable one for the boy to learn.) There is a right of appeal to the Court against all refusals to register. (There have been no such appeals.) While the Court and committees are empowered to take the various steps above mentioned, the duty of taking proceedings for breaches of the Act, regulations, orders, &c., is vested in the Registrar and District Registrars. (There have been two such proceedings ; a conviction was obtained in one case and the other was withdrawn, a satisfactory explanation being made.) Section 10 empowers two or more employers in the same industry and locality to jointly take apprentices ; this was enacted to meet the case of intermittent trades like the building trade, where perhaps one employer might not be able to continuously train apprentices. (No such steps have so far been taken.) Section 11 empowers a committee (or the Court) to authorize special contracts of apprenticeship in the cases of adults or of other persons already possessing some knowledge of an industry ; the duty of the committee (or the Court) in such a case is to see, for example, that undue advantage is not taken by an employer by thus obtaining the services of an adidt at the wages and other conditions fixed for boys. (As already mentioned, three such special contracts have been approved.) Section 18 enables the Registrar or any District Registrar to obtain from the head teacher of any school a report on each child leaving the school to enter employment, showing the standard passed, his attainments, and so on. Reports upon the boys that might be found to have left the public schools when the schools were to open in February were accordingly called for from all the schools in the sixteen chief towns of the Dominion. On account of the infantile-paralysis epidemic the schools were not reopened for several months, and it was therefore impossible for head teachers to ascertain until after the schools were reopened which boys would have left the schools. Some 2,761 reports were, however, eventually received, and each boy reported on or his parent was asked to fill in a form showing what occupation the boy had taken up or wished to enter. Many of those who had already entered employment failed to reply, but so far as the data go they show that 483, or 27 per cent, entered the commercial and professional pursuits (in which about 22 per cent, of the male working population are engaged), and 1,169, or 66 per cent, entered the primary and secondary occupations (in which about 62 per cent, of the population are employed) ; of the remainder, 121 are shown as having taken up transport and other unskilled and miscellaneous work, 613 entered higher schools, and 374 were undecided as to what they should do. The question of definitely ascertaining the proportions of the boys that enter the above groups of occupations is one of importance to the welfare of the boys and of the community generally, and steps will therefore be again taken at the beginning of next year to obtain reliable information on the subject, in order that if it is found that a large number of the boys are taking up occupations —particularly of a non-productive nature —in which there is not likely to be permanent employment the position may be made generally known. Section 21 of the Act contains a provision that is entirely new —viz., that, if a majority of the employers in an industry and locality desire that young persons may receive technical training in an institution, either one established for the purpose or one already in existence such as a technical

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school, the Court of Arbitration may order a levy towards the cost thereof to be paid by all the employers in the industry and locality. When doing so the Court may lay down such conditions as it thinks fit, and may exempt any particular employer. The first case of the kind has recently arisen in the motor mechanics' industry in Auckland, which, it is stated, will be followed by those in the industry in other centres. The employers' representative stated that apprentices in the industry require certain instruction that cannot be given in an ordinary garage. On the agreement of the parties an order of the Court was made requiring each employer of apprentices to contribute 10s. per annum for each apprentice for two years for the purchase of equipment at the local technical college where classes are being held. The experiment is spoken of as the beginning of a new policy in industry, of which much may be expected in future, and the system has been commended to employers generally in other industries. WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT. Sixty-two cases were heard and determined by the Court of Arbitration, none of which calls for special mention. During the year an Order in Council was made declaring chrome ulceration to be a disease within the operation of the Workers' Compensation Act. Proposed new legislation : A survey of the legislation in operation in other countries lias now been made, and it is understood that it is the intention of the Government to introduce a Bill next session to effect some improvements in the existing law. SHEARERS' ACCOMMODATION ACT. The administration of this Act has again been carried out by the Department of Agriculture, whose Inspectors have greater facilities for carrying out country inspections. AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS' ACCOMMODATION ACT (INCLUDING ACCOMMODATION FOR FLAX AND SAWMILL WORKERS). Very few complaints have been received during the year regarding accommodation for these workers. A large number of general inspections were made in the course of the annual general inspection of factories, &c., and ninety-two requisitions were served on proprietors for increased or improved accommodation, resulting in better conditions being provided for the workers affected. SCAFFOLDING AND EXCAVATION ACT. The new Act, which was passed, in 1922, and which extended the former (Scaffolding Inspection) Act to cover all building operations, has been administered and complied with without much difficulty, builders and workers generally, with few exceptions, recognizing the necessity in the interests of safety of conforming to the requirements laid down. During the year 6,023 notices of intention to erect buildings and scaffoldings were received (previous year, 4,863), and 16,760 inspections were made (previous year, 14,314). Building operations have been active, particularly in the North Island. In the chief cities buildings from one up to three stories in the business centres are gradually being replaced by modern structures of greater height, extending to seven, eight, and nine stories. This work involves the use of intricate hoistinggear as well as scaffolding, and requires constant supervision. The tendency to erect slipshod scaffolding and to use faulty gear exists mostly with those builders or painters who carry on business in a small way, to whom the outlay for sound scaffolding material and plant is of more moment than to those engaged more extensively in the trade. There were 319 accidents reported, an increase of 135 on the previous year. The number of serious (including fatal) accidents is fifteen, as compared with sixteen during the previous year. The cause of each accident was carefully investigated. It will be seen from the summary of the six fatal accidents below that in no case was the accident due to faulty or defective scaffolding or gear. This applies also to the nine serious but non-fatal accidents. Inspectors have nevertheless exercised the greatest vigilance over work of a hazardous nature in order to prevent accidents as far as possible. A large proportion of the accidents reported were very slight, such as cuts and splinters in the hand, which are not directly concerned with scaffolding. Tlie increase in the total number which occurred is due to two causes —viz., an increase in the number of buildings and scaffoldings erected, and the continued extension of the inspections to country districts, resulting in many slight accidents being brought under notice which were formerly not reported. Particulars of the fatal Occidents are as follows :— (1.) A labourer was working on a ladder about 8 ft. from the ground, cutting the wiring of the boxing of some concrete-casing which was about 4 ft. 6 in. from the top rung of the ladder on which he was standing. It is surmised that the wire parted more easily than the worker anticipated, with the result that the boxing came away, causing the worker to lose his balance ; he fell a distance of

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8 ft. 6 in., dislocating his neck. Instructions have been issued to builders that in such cases ropes should be secured to take the strain should the boxing come away unexpectedly. (2.) In this case iron trusses had been placed in position to support the roof of a new municipal theatre, and boards were placed on the tie-beams of the trusses to enable the workers to fix the purlins. Two carpenters were working on the boards when one of the trusses collapsed and fell 25 ft., precipitating the workers to the ground ; both men were injured, and died a few hours after the accident. At the inquest there appeared to be some doubt as to whether the trusses provided for in the contract were sufficiently strong to carry the roof and the ceiling, but this is a matter that does not come within the scope of the Scaffolding and Excavation Act; in view, however, of expert evidence that the trusses were not sufficiently strong to support the roof, the Department took the precaution of refusing to permit work on them until they had been strengthened. The trusses were subsequently strengthened to the satisfaction of the Public Works Engineer and of this Department, and the work was completed without further accident. (3.) A foreman of a building job was removing a temporary stage that had been used for the support of a chute for concrete-distribution ; this stage was carried to the edge of the building and there accidentally fell over the side, striking a labourer who was on the ground below : the worker died of his injuries. (4.) A worker was engaged in a lift-well on the fifth floor of a building, fixing timbers on a steel joist, and whilst engaged in taking some measurements between the cage of the newly installed lift and the girder the lift-attendant was asked by the worker to raise the lift a few feet above the floor ; while this was being done the worker was caught between the lift and a girder; his head was badly crushed, and on being released he fell backwards on to the lift-floor ; he was dead when picked up. The worker took an unnecessary risk in remaining in the lift-well after requesting the attendant to raise the lift. (5.) A labourer employed on the first floor of a new building was engaged in raising a steel column by means of a hand-crane; the column fouled a window-opening, and the worker, unaware of what had haprened, continued to work the crane, which toppled over, carrying him. with it; the worker fell to the ground, and was killed almost instantaneously. The crane was in good workingorder, and was weighted for 10 cwt., while the load was 3J cwt. (6.) Whilst hoisting a piece of timber from the stokehold a builder's labourer engaged in renovation work in a sugar-of-milk factory overbalanced and fell from the permanent gangway on to the stokehold floor, a distance of 13 ft. 6in.; the worker's skull was fractured, and he died a few hours later. The gangway was an iron one, 22 in. wide, and was protected by guard-rails on both sides, 3 ft. 7 in. high ; it was not considered practicable to raise the height of the guard-rails. There were thirty-six prosecutions under the Act during the year (last year, fifty-six). An amendment to the Act was passed last session giving effect as follows : — (1.) The provisions of the main Act were extended to all tramway-works intended for the carriage of passengers. Hitherto the Act did not apply to any work in connection with a tramway. (2.) Section 5 of the principal Act was amended so as to require notice to be given before any person commences building-work if at any time during the course of such building-work any persons engaged there may incur the risk of a fall of 12 ft. or more. It had been held by the Courts that under the principal Act notice was not required until there actually existed a risk of falling 12 ft. or more. (3.) Notice is now required of the commencement of any excavation work of any depth, whether 5 ft. in depth or not, if the excavation is within a distance of 5 ft. from any building that is more than 12 ft. in height; previously notice of any excavation was not required unless the depth of the excavation exceeded 5 ft. Instances had occurred where excavations less than 5 ft. in depth had been made close to adjoining buildings causing the buildings to collapse. SERVANTS' REGISTRY OFFICES ACT. There are 113 offices registered in New Zealand : increase, 3. There were five prosecutions, in four of which convictions were obtained. ARREARS OF WAGES. Amounts totalling £3,744 10s. 2d. were collected by the Department's officers on behalf of workers who had been underpaid the wages prescribed by awards and the various Acts, while further amounts of such arrears totalling £4,325 18s. Id. were paid by employers, at the instance of the Inspectors, directly to the workers concerned : total, £8,070 Bs. 3d. RENT RESTRICTION. There were 656 applications received from tenants for inquiry (last year, 568). The following shows the number in each town, with the number (in brackets) in which the increase in rent was deemed unjustified: Auckland 190 (38); Wellington 285 (64); Christchurch 25 (15); Dunedin 54 (34) ; Hamilton 0 (0) ; Gisborne 0 (0) ; Napier 47 (26) ; Masterton 5 (0) ; New Plymouth 16 (9) ; Wanganui 0 (0) ; Palmerston North 15 (3) ; Nelson 4 (4) ; Greymouth 4 (1) ; Timaru 2 (1) ; Oamaru 0 (0) ; Invercargill 9 (4). Of 40 cases taken to Court 5 increases in rent were held to be justified, 10 partly justified, and 25 unjustified. Of 322 settled by Inspectors without recourse to Court, 70

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increases in rent were considered to be justified, 78 partly justified, and 174 unjustified. Sixty-eight complaints were withdrawn, 47 because the increase was justified and 21 because the owners reduced the rent demanded. Ninety-two cases were found to be outside the scope of the Act, and no action was taken in 92 other cases for miscellaneous reasons, such as tenants having left, owners having sold to new owners for latters' own occupation, &c. ; the remaining 42 cases were not completed at the close of the year. The rent-restriction provisions were continued by the Rent Restriction Act, 1924, until the 31st August, 1925. This A°t a ls° amended the law on the lines recommended in last year's report, as follows : (1) That an agreement between the landlord and tenant as to the capital value of a dwellinghouse will not exclude the application of the rent-restriction provisions. It was pointed out last year that cases had been found where landlords had obtained agreements from their tenants as to such a capital value as would entitle the landlords to an unreasonable rent, even exceeding £2 per week, and so taking the houses beyond the scope of the Act. The amendment provides that the capital values shall be fixed by Magistrates. (2) That where the rent, payable on 3rd August, 1914, cannot be ascertained (as is now generally the case after such a long lapse of time) the capital value as at that date may be fixed by a Magistrate, and the rent shall thereupon be determined in accordance with that value. (3) For penalties against a landlord obtaining possession of a dwellinghouse by a misrepresentation that he requires the dwellinghouse for his own occupation. Previously no offence was committed unless an order of a Magistrate for possession of the dwellinghouse had been obtained. Inspectors report that the 1924 amendment has had the several effects intended, and it is noticed particularly that owners and agents do not now require tenants to sign agreements as to the capital value. Three complaints were received regarding owners obtaining possession of dwellinghouses on the ground that they required them for their own occupation and immediately reletting them. Action under the amendment above mentioned was taken in one case, and a fine was imposed. In the second case proceedings were dropped as both parties had left the district, and no offence was disclosed in the third case. Although it has been urged from time to time that this legislation should be allowed to expire, as it has the effect of discouraging the building of houses for letting purposes, a number of the Inspectors recommend its extension for a further twelve months, for the reason that considerable hardship would still be caused to many tenants ; there is still an undoubted shortage of houses, particularly of those within the means of the workers. It might be repeated that in any event the existing legislation does not apply to houses erected or first let after the 9th November, 1920. FOOTWEAR REGULATION ACT. There were 1,252 general inspections made throughout the Dominion under this Act, and stocks of footwear were carefully examined. As most if not all of the footwear that requires to be branded under the Act is imported, the arrangements made with the Customs Department have been continued by which all imported footwear is examined in the Customs sheds before being released ; this method has resulted in a considerable saving of time and in more complete inspections. There were twenty-seven prosecutions, and convictions were obtained in twenty-two cases ; fines totalling £52 lis. were imposed. After consideration at the conferences referred to last year between Inspectors of Footwear and representatives of the manufacturers, importers, retailers, and workers interested, a Bill was introduced during the parliamentary session designed to strengthen the existing provisions of the Act. The present Act does not prohibit the use of cardboard and other substitutes for leather in the soles, heels, &c., of footwear, but requires that all such substitutes shall be indicated on the soles by a legible brand. At the conferences the manufacturers and their employees, who make all-leather footwear, strongly urged the prohibition of substitutes, whether in imported wear or in New Zealand made goods ; the other representatives disagreed. As the result of the diversity of opinion the Bill was not proceeded with. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT. There is, no doubt, a great improvement in the type of weighing-appliances used for the purposes of trade throughout the Dominion to-day as compared with three or four years ago. This may be said to be due (1) to the system of annual reverification of weighing-appliances which came into force two years ago in the sixteen chief towns, and which has resulted in the rejection of a number of appliances that were found to be unreliable or of faulty construction and therefore unsuitable for trade : (2) to the fact that traders now more fully recognize the advantage of having efficient and reliable appliances; cheap and crudely constructed weighing - instruments are as likely to weigh against the seller as against the purchaser; the modern self-indicating machine gives quicker weighings, and is generally more efficient than the old type of scale; the appliances now on the market generally are of an improved type : (3) That the regulations of 1923 are now better known and understood by shopkeepers and scale-makers, and consequently there is a better observance of the provisions. The number of appliances examined by the Inspectors during the year again shows a considerable increase over previous years—namely, 83,105, as compared with 63,018 for the year 1923-24, and 53.298 in 1922-23. The number of premises visited during the year was 8,439, as against 6,661 during 1923-24, and 4,074 during 1922-23,

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Ninety-nine prosecutions were taken, forty-six for using or being in possession of unstamped or unjust appliances, and fifty-three for various other breaches of the Act and regulations; total penalties, £154 17s. The total fees collected during the year were £3,942 18s. 5d., as compared with £2,726 Bs. sd. last year and £574 the previous year, which last were, however, under a former (lower) scale. The increase in the volume of inspections and reverification work during the year is largely due to the more efficient organization of the work by the Inspectors, and the better understanding of the Act and regulations by the owners of appliances. As nearly as possible an annual inspection of all appliances is made in the sixteen principal towns where the Inspectors are stationed, and the country districts are attended to when the general inspection of factories and shops in those districts is being carried out. As stated above, owners of appliances within ten miles of the Inspectors' offices are required by the regulations to submit their appliances annually for reverification, whilst owners outside these radii are not bound to do so unless the appliances have been altered or adjusted. This position is somewhat illogical, as the purchasers and the traders in the country are equally entitled to protection ; it is hoped to gradually extend the inspection to the whole Dominion. In regard to the sale of coal, coke, and firewood, the amendment of 1922 made it an offence to sell these goods short of the weights purported to be sold, whether or not the weighing-appliances are correct; in regard to other commodities the Act applies only to the weighing and measuring instruments used. The inspections relating to the sale of coal, &c., as referred to last year, have evidently resulted in more correct weights being given, as very few breaches have since been found ; coal-dealers generally have obtained satisfactory appliances. More effective measures are desirable to protect the public from unscrupulous sellers. I recommended last year that measures similar to those adopted in New South Wales, South Africa, and other countries be adopted here —for example, to make it an offence not only to use incorrect or unsatisfactory weighing or measuring appliances, but also to sell or deliver any goods short of the weight or quantity purported to be sold. During the year twenty-four appliances presenting novel features were submitted for approval in accordance with clause 5 of the regulations, which requires that this course shall be followed before such appliances shall be used for trade purposes ; twenty-two were approved as being of a pattern such as would not facilitate fraud, and two were rejected. The reciprocal arrangement with other countries that was instituted last year at our suggestion has been continued, particulars of new legislation, regulations, and orders having been issued and received from time to time ; the information so obtained from the British Board of Trade in this respect has proved very valuable. LEAD POISONING. This matter has received further attention during the year, and much additional information on the subject has been gathered. lam unable to report, however, that any great move forward has yet been made in any country regarding the use of white-lead. The Lead Paints (Protection against Poisoning) Bill promoted by the Labour Government in Britain last year did not pass the House. This Bill proposed to adopt the recommendation of the International Labour Conference that the use of white-lead for internal work be prohibited. In connection with this Bill Sir Thomas Olliver, who is a recognized authority in England on the subject of white-lead, stated that while lead dust will always be more or less a danger and a menace to health, the opportunities of lead doing any harm can be so much reduced that trades which were formerly called dangerous can now be followed when due attention is paid to personal cleanliness and regulations rigidly followed, without the risks to health of three or four decades ago. As an example he states that by the observance of regulations plumbism has practically disappeared from the north of England. Following upon the information obtained as above referred to, it was decided at your direction to call a conference of representatives of manufacturers, importers, master painters, and workers employed in painting as well as in paint-factories, to consider proposed rules on the subject. This conference was held in March last, and was presided over by myself. The proposals were, after some alteration, agreed upon by the conference, and are now being finally revised. As it is found that regulations may be made under the Public Health Act without the necessity of legislation, the issue of regulations is in the hands of the Health Department. Meanwhile further endeavours have been made by several firms in New Zealand to produce and put upon the market substitutes for carbonate of lead that might be regarded as non-poisonous—for example, normal sulphate of lead and zinc compounds. At the request of the Department, tests of some of these have been made by Government experts, but, as a considerable period must elapse before the effect is seen, the tests are not yet complete; so far as they have gone, however, the results of the tests are given below. At the present time the production or manufacture of lead compounds for paint does not exist to any great extent in the Dominion ; the compounds are usually imported either in paste or in powder form. The manufacture of these compounds in New Zealand would produce an added risk of lead poisoning to those engaged in the process, as it is admitted that even in the manufacture of so-called non-poisonous lead compounds the risk of lead poisoning exists up to a certain stage, though the risk may not be so great as in the case of ordinary white-lead (or carbonate qf lead). For the test with zinc compounds three new cottages erected side by side about fifteen

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months ago, each with an approximate area of 190 square yards, were selected, and the following results are now shown : —

It was found that zinc compound, in comparison with ordinary white-lead, is heavier to work, takes longer to apply, and is harder on the brushes, but for durability in white work zinc compound is, so far as the test has gone, regarded as superior ; it remains to be seen whether this will be maintained, and whether the advantages, including the fact that lead is not used in this material, are sufficient to fully compensate for the extra cost. Regarding normal sulphate of lead, a test was commenced about six months ago alongside the houses above mentioned. Unfortunately, no record lias been kept of the amount used, nor of the cost of labour and material; it was found, however, that paint containing normal sulphate of lead is harder to work than ordinary white-lead, but is slightly superior as regards durability; zinc compound is, however, apparently superior in durability to both carbonate and sulphate of lead. TAILORING TRADE REGULATIONS. It was stated in last year's report that manufacturers and workers engaged in the making of garments to measure under the tailoring trade awards and agreements (order tailoring) had been pressing for legislation respecting the sale of chart and other garments made to measure under the factory trade awards and agreements, it being claimed that by reason of the greater amount of handwork better value is given to the public by the former, while the public are frequently misled by those engaged in the latter trade into believing that the garments supplied are tailor-made ; the distinction said to exist between the two classes of goods is that the one is largely hand-made work while the other is largely machine-made. The question was investigated, and in order to arrive at the actual points of difference between the two conflicting interests a conference of representatives of these interests was, on your instructions, called, and presided over by myself ; the representatives included workers as well as employers. The questions at issue presented considerable difficulty, but, except in respect of one item mentioned below, an agreement was reached, and regulations were gazetted accordingly on the 16th February.* The chief provisions are (1) that requiring that before a garment may be described as " tailor-made " the essential operations as specified in the regulations shall be performed by hand, and, where done by employees, shall be carried out under the conditions of employment set out in the current tailoring trade award or industrial agreement in the locality ; (2) that a garment that is described as " hand-made " shall be entirely made by hand ; and (3) that in any establishment where both " tailor-made" and other garments to measure are sold, the purchaser of one of the latter garments shall be informed that it is not " tailor-made," and the onus shall lie on the seller to prove that the purchaser was so informed. The last provision was inserted in lieu of that proposed by some of the delegates (and which was the item not agreed on), viz., that garments that were not " tailor-made " should bear a label to that effect. Immediately on the gazetting of the regulations notices' calling attention to them were issued to the manufacturers and dealers concerned throughout the Dominion. FAMILY ALLOWANCES. This subject continued during the year to receive attention in Europe, and the publications in America in 1924 indicate that investigators of economic and social subjects in the United States were also devoting much thought to the question. So far as can be gathered, the system has been instituted only in some of the European countries, such as Holland, Belgium, France, and Germany ; it is, moreover, on a voluntary basis, except that legislation has recently been passed in France making it compulsory in certain State services. There does not, however, appear to be a system of minimum wages in these countries as in Australia and

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Cost of House. Painted with Condition. Base j ia bour. , Total. Labour, j Material. I I - Hours. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. No. 1 Three coats white- Good, though 128 lb. .. 84 9 2 2 3 19 1 13 1 3 lead (carbonate slightly inof lead) cl i n e d to rub off No. 2 One coat com- Good .. 881b. zinc com- 90 9 15 3 5 13 3 15 8 6 pound zinc, two pound, 24 lb. coats carbonate lead (112 lb. of lead in all) No. 3 Three coats zinc Good .. 1091b. .. 94 10 3 10 5 18 0 16 1 10 compound

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Now Zealand, and the important question remains unanswered as to whether it would bo. practicable to give the extra allowances to the married man with large families without lowering the minimum rates of the other workers or without increasing prices and raising the question of competition with traders elsewhere ; the allowances so far made have apparently not been large enough to affect these questions materially. A report on the subject of family allowance was received from the International Labour Office towards the end of 1924. Recent investigators have sought to show that allowances as such were on a working basis in several countries of Europe before the war, but the International Labour Office points out that the chief cause of the adoption of family allowances was the great and rapid increase in the cost of living during and after the war; this increase led to a corresponding decrease in the value of real wages, hardship being thus caused to workers, particularly those with large families. The objects of family allowances, the basis of subscription by employers and the working of the schemes in various European States, are fully examined in the report. In an article in the March number of the International Labour Review, Professor Paul H. Douglas, of the Chair of Industrial Relations, University of Chicago, states that precedents exist for the payment of wages graduated according to the size of the family ; allowances for the families of soldiers and sailors, insurance benefits, motherhood endowment, and strike pay all present examples of the principle. Professor Douglas, who was one of the authorities chosen by the International Labour Office to co-operate in producing its report on the subject of family allowances, holds that the family-allowance system is not unique or isolated, but that it bids fair to alter appreciably existing methods of wage-payment. In January last Mr. A. B. Piddington, K.C., of Sydney, New South Wales, travelled through New Zealand and lectured fully on a scheme propounded by a Commission in New South Wales of which lie was the chairman, along similar lines to the European model, and the subject attracted interest in the Press of this country. As he found that there were three children under fourteen years of ago to every four adult male workers, he suggested that a deduction of 7s. 6d. from each worker per week would provide 10s. per week for each child. The subject was also touched on and recommended by the Court of Arbitration in Now Zealand in May, 1922, in its pronouncement upon the cost of living at that timeOne, possible solution of the question in New Zealand would be achieved by providing that without increasing the total wages now paid by any employer or in industry generally, the amounts ordinarily duo to the workers would be adjusted, through a central fund, according to the number of dependants (if any) on each worker. It is ascertained that there is approximately one child under fourteen years of ago to every adult male worker; if, therefore, the sum that it is desired to allow for each child say, 7s. 6d. per week —was deducted from each worker's wages or salary, the amounts so deducted would in the aggregate provide approximately that sum for each child less an allowance for administration expenses; in actual practice each employer would be required to deduct the sum decided on from the wages of each of his employees and to pay that amount to the central fund in the locality. The actual wages receivable by the workers would then be as follows :— Single man, widower or married man without children : Ordinary wages as at present less 7s. 6d. deducted. Married man or widower with one child : Ditto, but the 7s. 6d. (allowance for one child) would be repaid by the central fund. Man with two children : Ordinary wages plus 7s. 6d. (the employer deducting 7s. 6d. and the fund paying 15s. for the children). Man with three children : Ordinary wages plus 15s. (the employer deducting 7s. 6d. and the fund paying £1 2s. 6d. for the children). Man with four children : Ordinary wages plus £1 2s. 6d. (the employer deducting 7s. 6(1. and the fund paying £1 10s. for the children). and so on. It is worth noting that this system would give the married man with two children, who has been regarded as the average upon which the basic rates should be fixed, 7s. 6d. per week more than at present, while those with larger families would, of course, receive greater amounts ; the benefits would, however, no doubt soon become less because the average size of the families would tend to increase, and the single men would be encouraged to marry, and this, together with the cost of administration, would require to be taken into account. The actual sums to be deducted and paid out would require to bo actuarially adjusted from time to time in order that the scheme Would be self-supporting. Incidentally it might be suggested that the institution of such a scheme would remove to some extent at least the vexed question of equal pay for equal work as between men and women. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE. The reports issued by the International Labour Office give the following information :— The International Labour Conference held its sixth session at Geneva from the 16th June to the sth July, 1924, and, as was foreshadowed in 1923, the Conference refrained from passing further draft conventions or recommendations that would call for drastic changes to bo made in the labour legislation of the various countries that are members of the League of Nations. 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showed a marked reluctance to ratify the draft conventions or adopt the recommendations ; this led to a halt being called until the International Labour Office had an opportunity of endeavouring to arrange for the nations of chief industrial importance to consider the past proposals, of the Conferences and to pass the legislation necessary to give the findings of the inaugurating body legal sanction. The main difficulty of the great industrial nations is said to have arisen from the fact that many causes operated to prevent the passing of Acts which would make the conventions and recommendations effective, particularly when the question of hours came to be considered ; debtor nations maintained that they were entitled to work longer hours than those nations that were their creditors. The absence of uniformity regarding the hours to be observed in industrial undertakings has hindered the progress of the efforts the International Labour Conferences have made towards obtaining better conditions for workers in all countries, botli inside and outside the League of Nations ; during 1924 little was done in Europe despite the best efforts of the International Labour Office to promote a keener interest in the work of giving effect to the conventions and recommendations of the four Conferences. The subsequent Conference (which sat in June and July of 1.924) limited itself to the following matters : — (I.) Development of facilities for the utilization of workers' leisure; (2.) Equality of treatment for national and foreign workers as regards workmen's compensation for accidents ; (3.) Weekly suspension of work for twenty-four hours in glass-manufacturing processes where tank furnaces are used ; (1.) Night-work in bakeries. The Conference was able to adopt conventions or recommendations concerning each of these subjects, although by a new method of procedure the final decision was in three cases reserved for a vote to be taken during the next (seventh) session of 1925. The Conference also devoted some time to a discussion of the anthrax problem, which was not fully disposed of at the 1921 Conference. At the 1919 Conference a recommendation was adopted urging that arrangements should be made either in the exporting country or at the port of entry in the importing country for the disinfection of wool infected with anthrax-spores. The matter was again discussed at the 1921 meeting of the delegates, when it was resolved that further action was necessary ; this led to the setting up of an Advisory Committee on Anthrax, and this body submitted its report with a draft convention to the 1924 Conference ; this in turn led to a further committee drawn from the Conference itself being set up, as a result of which it was decided not to propose a convention on the matter to the nations. It is said that at a later Conference a draft convention may be introduced providing for the disinfection of hair used in brushmaking and upholstery, also of horns and hoofs, prior to all industrial manipulation. Item No. I : Workers' Leisure. The Conference passed a long and suggestive recommendation dealing successively with the preservation of spare time (by the prohibition or discouragement of supplementary employment and the better organization of transport to avoid waste of time) : the relation between spare time and social hygiene, including the problems of drink, tuberculosis, and. venereal disease ; housing policy ; institutions for the utilization of spare time (e.g., garden allotments, sports, education) which should be encouraged ; and, finally, the free use of institutions and. the co-ordination of local action in the matter. The committee further adopted a resolution asking the International Labour Office to keep in constant touch with the Governments on the questions discussed, and. to publish regularly reports on the action taken and the results obtained. Item No. 2 : Equality of Treatment for National and Foreign Workers in Workers' Compensation. The general question of the protection of workers employed in foreign countries has occupied the attention of the organization throughout its career. The Washington Conference adopted two decisions bearing on the subject. The investigations carried out by the International Labour Office showed that practice varies greatly in this matter. In some countries, including New Zealand, a foreign worker to whom an accident may happen in the course of his employment has the same rights as regards compensation as a national worker ; this is the ideal aimed at, but in many countries the International Labour Office found the foreign worker's position to be much less advantageous than that of the national, or it is dependent upon the existence of a reciprocity treaty between his own country and the one in which he is employed. A number of treaties along the above lines existed before the war, but some of them were abrogated by the outbreak of hostilities and have not been renewed ; the creation of new States also increased, the difficulties in bringing about this feature in labour legislation. The committee which was appointed to deal with this subject was unanimous in the opinion that there should be equality of treatment for foreign and national workers, but a cleavage revealed itself on the question whether States ratifying the proposed convention should be called upon to guarantee equality of treatment to all foreign workers or only to nationals of the other States that had ratified : the latter alternative was adopted. The result of the work of this committee was expressed in a provisional vote on two texts, a draft convention, and a recommendation, both of which were passed by the Conference ; they were not, however, definitely adopted, but, as a result of a vote on the whole question, will come forward again for a final vote at the seventh session of the Conference (in 1925).

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Item No. 3 : Weekly Suspension of Work in Glass-factories. This question lias little application to New Zealand. In this country there is only one factory, at which the houfs of workers are governed by an agreement; and, as only the most recent of modern machinery is installed, and tank furnaces are not in use, Sunday or continuous work is not necessary in the industry. The agreement, in fact, provides for working on five days a week only. Item 'No. I : Night-work in Bakeries. This matter had already proved to be a difficult one to handle, and the subject had been left over from the 1921 Conference. The proposed resolution before the Conference called for the prohibition of night-work in bakeries. It was suggested during the discussion that as in a score or so of countries night-work in bakeries is already strictly regulated, if not actually prohibited, the question should not present any special difficulties. The committee found it necessary, however, to sit on fifteen occasions before it succeeded in producing a draft which left plenty of scope for accommodation to the particular needs of individual countries. National practice varies greatly in regard to the prohibition or regulation of night-work in bakeries. While no one could be found to defend the regular and continuous practice of night-work, which in baking, as in other industries, is injurious, and can only be justified on the grounds of the strictest necessity, there was much diversity of opinion at the Conference (1) as to the desirability of permitting night-work where the shift system is in force, (2) as to the possibility of prohibiting the night-work of the owners who work alone, and (3) as to the hours of the night during which work should be forbidden. A great deal of consideration was given to the second question, where the matter of individual liberty arises, as it always does in such cases; but it was pointed out that a small baker working single-handed would gain such an advantage as to make it hard to apply the prohibition in other cases ; and then, by the simple device of a fictitious partnership, it would be possible for larger establishments employing a number of bakers to claim exemption. The committee set up to examine the proposal decided by a large majority that the prohibition should extend to the owner also, whether working alone or employing journeymen bakers. Respecting the hours question the committee finally decided that the period of prohibition should be seven hours, which should include the hours between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m., or, when it is required, by the climate or season, between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. ; this allows a certain elasticity in fixing the hours of starting or finishing work, and the committee left decision on this point to the individual Governments. The Convention has been only provisionally passed, and conies up again for consideration at this year's Conference. The Conference does not seem to have debated the question of the variation in quality that may result when bread is baked during the day on account of the additional lapse of time before it is delivered to customers : this has been a strong point in the master bakers' case against prohibition of night baking in both Australia and New Zealand. The matter of regulating the hours of baking in New Zealand was brought before Parliament some years ago, when it was decided that, as no general agreement between the interests involved could be reached, the question should be held over. STATISTICS OF REAL WAGES. In the annual report for 1923-24 mention was made of the fact that the question of making a true comparison between the wages of various classes of workers in New Zealand and other countries had been considered ; the difficulties were found to be too great to allow of any readily available comparison being made, owing to the difference in the standard of living and in retail prices as existing between one country and another. The International Labour Office, however, arranged that a Conference of Statisticians should be called in 1923 for the purpose of considering industrial statistics generally, and in April of this year the second such Conference met in Geneva. When the subject of real wages came up for discussion it was considered opportune to concentrate on the problem of international comparisons of real wages. The work entailed in this regard is being made easier by the co-operation of the appropriate departments of various countries with the International Labour Office in the publication by that office of index numbers of real wages in the capital cities of the various countries, on the lines of a resolution passed at the 1923 Conference. This resolution asked the competent statistical authorities of each country to furnish the International Labour Office at regular intervals (if possible, monthly) with statements showing (1) time rates of wages and normal weekly hours of labour current in a limited number of occupations, and (2) information as to the prices of a limited number of those items upon which the income of working-class families in most industrially developed countries is largely spent. A report since issued sets out the methods adopted to arrive at a uniform basis for the purposes of the comparisons, and states that it is so difficult to find similar wage data in similar occupations in different countries that the comparisons that have so far been possible have been limited to groups of male workers in the building, engineering, furniture-making, and printing trades. Limited comparisons such as these cannot be taken as indicative of the general level of wages in the area covered ; moreover, the International Labour Office has been compelled to limit the basis of the comparisons to important articles of food, with an allowance for rent. So far, the comparisons have been confined to capitai cities ; and here again variations in the standard of living between town and country dwellers, lower prices of food in the country, and considerations of facilities for pleasure, must be taken into consideration, and the result would considerably nullify the value of any attempt at a comparison of the value of real wages. The question of estabfishing a satisfactory unit by which to measure the money wages in different countries has thus presented many difficult points.

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Tlie International Labour Office proposes, however, to continue its endeavours to make a comparison that will be of interest and use to Governments, employers, and workers, and suggests that the competent statistical authorities should collaborate with that office by examining the possibility of extending the comparisons to cover other industries as well as the four already mentioned, by supplying, where necessary, information with regard to the numbers of workers in the different occupations, and considering the selection in each country of the towns in which the wages are the most representative; information regarding other items of food, fuel, and light, clothing, and other commodities, which will allow of an extension of the price-level unit, is also desired. PUBLICATIONS. During the year the usual annual " Book of Awards " containing the decisions of the Court of Arbitration and other matters under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act was issued ; also a pamphlet explanatory of the Workers' Compensation Act and a reissue of the " Precis of the Labour Laws of New Zealand generally." STAFF NOTES. The staff of the Department now totals 116, and is composed as follows : Head Office —Administrative, 3 ; clerical, 16. District offices—lnspection, 53 ; clerical, 36 ; Conciliation Commissioners, 3 ; anil Court of Arbitration (members and staff) 5. In addition some 180 other persons, mostly officers of other Departments, give part-time services as agents in small towns. The Inspectors include experts in scaffolding-erection and building-construction, in the manufacture and use of weights and measures and mechanical appliances as used in factories, and also in the composition of footwear. EXPENDITURE DURING THE YEAR. Salaries, cost-of-living bonus, temporary clerical assistance, allowance to officers performing £ higher duties, and allowance to police and other officers acting as departmental agents . . 30,016 Advertising and publications .. . . .. .. . . .. .. 366 Fares, board and lodging, &c., advanced to persons proceeding to employment (see refunds below) . . . . .. .. . . .. .. .. .. 248 Fees paid to assessors of Industrial Councils .. .. .. .. .. .. 2,053 Legal and witnesses' expenses (see refunds below) . . .. .. .. .. 230 Postage, telegrams, telephones, and rent of letter-boxes .. .. .. .. .. 1,675 Printing and stationery .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2,123 Office requisites, fuel, and lighting .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 717 Travelling-allowances and expenses of Inspectors, members of Court of Arbitration, Conciliation Councils, &c., bicycles, motor-cycles, and motor-cars, and maintenance thereof .. 7,742 Upkeep of departmental residence .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 11 Miscellaneous expenditure — £ Arbitration Court and Conciliation Councils .. .. .. .. 54 General . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 555 609 Rent and rates on office accommodation .. .. . . . . .. .. 1,070 Hygrometers and thermometers for experiments regarding the health of factory workers .. 170 47,030 Less refunds — Fares.. .. .. .. .. .. . . .. 233 Legal and witnesses' expenses . . .. .. .. . . 69 From State Advances Department for services of officers in connection with workers' dwellings .. . . .. .. .. 500 Travelling - expenses recovered from defendants in cases taken by Department and from persons to whom weights and measures services were rendered . . .. . . .. .. 270 From Government Statistician for services of officers .. .. 200 Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 285 1,557 £45,473 The above figures do not include a number of items for which provision for payment is made elsewhere than in the Department's vote —viz., salaries of Judge and members of Court of Arbitration (£3,430), messenger services, cleaning, &c.

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APPENDIX.

RETURN PURSUANT TO SECTION 17 OF THE INDUSTRIAL CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION ACT, 1908, SHOWING THE NUMBER OF AFFILIATED UNIONS IN 'EACH INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION AND THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS IN EACH INDUSTRIAL UNION REGISTERED UNDER THE ACT TO 31st DECEMBER, 1924.

INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATIONS OF EMPLOYERS.

INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATIONS OF WORKERS.

o %(h ]Sainc. Registered Office. gM 1041 New Zealand Coach and Motor Body George Dash (Limited), VVaimate (Secretary, Vivian 7 Builders Grant, Box 978, Christchurch) 520 New Zealand Federated Builders and Con- 102 Customhouse Quay, Wellington .. .. .. 11 tractors 1253 New Zealand Federated Ironmasters .. National Mutual Buildings, Customhouse Quay, Wellington 4 1043 New Zealand Federated Newspaper Pro- Vickers House, Woodward (Street, Wellington .. 4 prietors .893 New Zealand Federation of Master Plumbers 196 Cashel Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 5 1036 New Zealand Flour, Oatmeal, and Pearl- 190 Cashel Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 2 barley Millers 1003 New Zealand Furniture Trades .. .. 12 Rew's Chambers, Queen Street, Auckland .. .. 5 724 New Zealand Master Printers . . . . 39 Kndean's Buildings, Auckland .. . . .. 14 1260 New Zealand Nurserymen and Landscape 16 Aratonga Avenue, One Tree Hill, Auckland .. 4, Gardeners 1248 New Zealand Waterside Employers .. X Store, Queen's Wharf, Wellington .. .. 6 832 New Zealand Wholesale Clothing Manu- 58 Jervois Quay, Wellington .. .. .. 4 facturers Totals .. .. .. .. N umber of associations, 11 66

t Oi3 . H $ a} Name. ltegiatered Office. € a -S No. Sgg 1225 Federated Cooks and Stewards of New 25 Panama Street, Wellington .. .. .. 2 Zealand 10-10 Federated Seamen's Union of New Zealand 130 Featherston Street, Wellington .. .. .. 3 487 Merchant Service Guild of New Zealand .. 153-155 Featherston Street, Wellington .. .. 2 855 New Zealand Amalgamated Society of Trades Hail, Vivian Street, Wellington. .. .. 27 Carpenters and Joiners 925 New Zealand Council of the Amalgamated Trades Hall, Christchurcli .. .. .. .. 0 Engineering Union 1201 New Zealand Federated Bakers and Re- Trades Hall, Christchurcli .. .. .. . . 4 lated Trades Employees 561 New Zealand Federated Boilermakers, Iron Trades Hall, Wellington .. .. .. .. 3 and Steel Ship Builders 53 New Zealand Federated Boot Trade .. 55 Wellpark Avenue, Grey Lynn, Auckland .. .. 0 790 New Zealand Federated Bricklayers .. 28 Kauri Street, Eastbourne, Wellington .. .. 3 - 124 New Zealand Federated Clothing Trade 20 Dowling Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 8 Employees 473 New Zealand Federated Coaehworkers and Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .. 4 Wheelwrights 824 New Zealand Federation of Drivers' Unions 130 Featherston Street, Wellington .. .. .. 0 077 New Zealand federated Engine-drivers, 11 Trades Hall, Wellington.. .. .. .. 7 River Engineers, Greasers, and Firemen 1002 New Zealand Federated Flour-mill Em- 2 Tabernacle Buildings, Auckland .. .. .. 5 ployees 772 New Zealand Federated Furniture Trade .. Trades Hall, 120 Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 4 729 New Zealand Federated Hotel and Restau- 80 Manners Street, Wellington .. .. .. 8 rant Employees 275 New Zealand Federated Moulders .. 90 Williamson Avenue, Grey Lynn, Auckland.. .. 4 507 New Zealand Federated Painters and Trades Hall, 120 Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 13 Decorators 780 New Zealand Federated Plumbers and Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 5 Gasfitters 830 New Zealand Federated Sawmills and Trades Hall, Christchurcli .. .. .. .. 4 Timber-yards and Coal-yards Employees 1218 New Zealand Federated Shop-assistants .. Trades Hall, 120 Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 11 750 New Zealand Federated Stonemasons .. Edendale Road, Edeiidale, Auckland .. .. 4 1238 New Zealand Federated Storemen - and 95 Rattray Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 8 Packers 809 New Zealand Federated Theatrical or Stage C/o B. Ashley, 0 Clarewood Avenue, Woodhaugh, 4 Employees I Dunedin 579 New Zealand Federated Tramway Em- 257 Riddiford Street, Wellington .. .. .. 8 ployees 543 New Zealand Federated Typographical . . 4 Fairfax Street, Roslyn, Dunedin .. .. .. 4 912 New Zealand Federated Woollen - mills Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 5 Employees 1132 New Zealand Freezing-works and Related Trades Hall, 126 Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 7 Trades 1226 New Zealand Gardeners and Related Trades Trades Hall, Dunedin 806 New Zealand Journalists .. 12 Somerfield Street, Spreydon, Ckristckurch .. .. 4 1195 New Zealand Performing Musicians .. Boulcott Avenue, Wellington .. .. .. 4 1117 New Zealand Related Printing Trades .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 6 559 j New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federa- 80 Manners Street, Wellington .. 22 tion — Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of associations, 33 216

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g# Name. Registered Office. | I 3 <» I Northern (Auckland) Industrial District. 348 Auckland and Suburban General Carriers Empire Buildings, Swanson Street, Auckland .. 20 and Coal-merchants 164 Auckland Builders and Contractors .. .114-1.15 Victoria Arcade, Queen Street, Auckland .. 144 102 Auckland Clothing-manufacturers .. Empire Buildings, Swanson Street, Auckland! .. 15 741 Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company Endean's Buildings, Queen Street, Auckland .. .. 1 (Limited) 1221 Auckland Fibrous-plaster Manufacturers .. Empire Buildings, Swanson Street, Auckland .. 14 911 Auckland Furniture and Furnishing .. 12 Rew's Chambers, Auckland .. .. .. 5] 181 Auckland Grooers .-. .. .. 22 Empire Buildings, Swanson Street, Auckland .. 124 472 Auckland Guild of Master Painters . . Acacia Buildings, O'Connell Street, Auckland .. .. 39 1252 Auckland Ironmasters .. .. .. Empire Buildings, Swanson Street, Auckland.. .. 7 730 Auckland Licensed. Victuallers'Association 21 Brunswick Buildings, 174 Queen Street, Auckland .. 160 330 Auckland Master Bakers .. .. 22 Empire Buildings, Swanson Street, Auckland .. 125 1074 Auckland Master Farriers .. 9 Belgium Street, Auckland .. .. .. 17 571 Auckland Master Plumbers .. 22 Empire Buildings, Swanson Street, Auckland .. 34 539 Auckland Master Printers .. 39 Endean's Buildings, Queen Street, Auckland .. 48 122 Auckland Master Tailors .. .. Empire Buildings, Swanson Street, Auckland .. 39 1257 Auckland Nurserymen and Landscape 7 Cameron Street, Devonport, Auckland .. .. 12 Gardeners 504 Auckland Provincial Coachbuilders and Empire Buildings, Swanson Street, Auckland .. 20 Wheelwrights 404 Auckland Provincial Master Butchers .. Empire Buildings, Swanson Street, Auckland .. 07 1O70 Auckland Provincial Newspaper-proprietors New Zealand Herald Office, Auckland .. .. 15 783 Auckland Restaurateurs .. .. Empire Buildings, Swanson Street, Auckland . . 28 1011 Auckland Retail Drapers, Milliners, Mercers, Empire Buildings', Swanson Street, Auckland .. 40 and Clothiers 148 Auckland Sawmillers and. Wood ware-maim- Fanshawe Street, Auckland .. .. .. 12 facturers 1241 Auckland Waterside Employers' Union .. Waterside Central Pay Office, Quay Street, Auckland . ■ 10 1135 Auckland Wholesale Grocery and Tobacco National Bank Chambers, Shortland Street, Auckland .. 21 Merchants 342 Devonport Steam Ferry Company (Limited) Ferry Buildings, Quay Street East, Auckland .. 1 370 Gisborne Builders and Contractors .. McKee's Buildings, 113 Gladstone Road, Gisborne .. 18 805 Gisborne Master Plumbers .. .. Sheridan and Adair's Buildings, Peel Street, Gisborne .. 5 979 Gisborne Master Printers and Bookbinders McKee's Buildings, 113 Gladstone Road, Gisborne .. 3 1025 Gisborne Master Tailors .. .. Peel Street, Gisborne .. .. .. .. 7 1020 J. T. Julian and Son (Limited) .. .. Cook Street, Auckland .. .. .. .. 1 320 Northern Steamship Company (Limited).. Quay Street, Auckland .. .. .. .. I 750 Poverty Bay and East Coast Sheepowners New Zealand Insurance Company's Buildings, Childers 152 Road, Gisborne 838 Poverty Bay Master Butchers .. .. Peel Street, Gisborne .. .. .. .. 12 1027 • South Auckland District Coachbuilders, 1 Collingwood Street, Hamilton .. .. .. 37 Blacksmiths, and Farriers 984 South Auckland District Master Printers, Victoria Street, Hamilton .. .. .. .. 39 Lithographers, and Bookbinders 103 Taupiri Coal-mines (Limited) .. .. Ferry Buildings, Quay Street, Auckland .. .. 1 Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of unions, 30 1,340 Wellington Industrial District. 420 Hawke's Bay Builders and Contractors .. Herscliell Street, Napier .. .. .. .. 35 743 Hawke's Bay Sheepowners .. .. Herscliell Street, Napier . . .. .. . . 256 998 Manawatu Master Builders, Building Con- Broadway, Palmerston North .. .. ., 30 tractors, and Sash and Door Factory Proprietors 520 E. W. Mills and Co. (Limited) .. .. Jervois Quay, Wellington .. .. .. .. j 522 New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Bacon 154-150 Featherston Street, Wellington .. .. 1 and Meat Packing Company (Limited) 0 New Zealand Boot-manufacturers' Associa- 19 Egmont Street, Wellington .. .. .. 34 tion 1019 Jas. J. Niven and Co. (Limited) . . 140 Wakefield Street, Wellington .. . . .. 1 1243 Palmerston North Hairdressers and To- The Square, Palmerston North .. .. . . 12 bacconists 1007 Palmerston North Timber-merchants .. Broadway, Palmerston North .. .. (j 517 Stewart Timber, Glass, and Hardware Courtenay Place, Wellington .. .. .. j Company (Limited) 142 Thomas Ballinger and Co. (Limited) .. 58 Victoria Street, Wellington .. .. .. 1 418 Wanganui Builders and Contractors .. Leonard's Buildings, Ridgway Street, Wanganui . . 44 1014 Wanganui Furniture Manufacturers and 125 Victoria Avenue, Wanganui East .. ,. 4 Dealers 1102 Wanganui Master Bakers* .. .. 16 Wicksteed Place, Wanganui .. .. .. 9 484 Wanganui Master Painters .. .. Avenue, Wanganui .. .. .. ., 20 1245 Wanganui Waterside Employers .. Waterside Central Pay Office, Wanganui .. .. 11 101 Wellington Builders and Contractors .. 102 Customhouse Quay, Wellington .. .. .. 97 815 Wellington Clothing-manufacturers .. 58 Jervois Quay, Wellington .. .. .. ]2 1054 Wellington Coach and Motor-vehicle Trades 102 Customhouse Quay, Wellington . . .. .. 21 1105 Wellington Engineers, Metal-workers, and 111 Customhouse Quay, Wellington .. .. .. 21 Iron and Brass Founders 1022 Wellington Furniture and Furnishing Trade 102 Customhouse Quay, Wellington .. .. 1 29 ♦Cancelled, 11/0/25.

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Name. Registered Office. J; •§ No ' 11 I _ _ _ _ WEllington INDUSTRIAL Distbict —continued. 1118 Wellington General Carriers and Custom- 102 Customhouse Quay, Wellington .. .. .. 105 house and Forwarding Agents 1123 Wellington Grocers .. .. 12 Panama Street, Wellington .. .. .. 40 108 Wellington Master Bakers .. .. 173 Cuba Street, Wellington .. .. .. 33 131 Wellington Master Painters .. .. 338 Tinakori Road, Wellington .. .. .. 92 S86 Wellington Master Plumbers .. .. 132 Willis Street, Wellington .. .. .. 39 644 Wellington Master Printers, Lithographers, 102 Customhouse Quay, Wellington .. .. .. 19 and Bookbinders 948 Wellington Newspaper Proprietors .. Dominion Office, Dominion Avenue, Wellington .. 12 1255 Wellington Nurserymen and Landscape 63 Scandia Street, Palmerston North .. .. 14 Gardeners 1197 Wellington Soft-goods Manufacturers .. 33 Old Customhouse Street, Wellington .. .. 11 1239 Wellington Waterside Employers'Union X Store, Queen's Wharf, Wellington .. .. 15 Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of unions, 31 1,032 Canterbury Industrial District. 113 Builders and Contractors' Association of 93 Gloucester Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 114 Canterbury 986 Canterbury Blacksmiths, Farriers, and 149 Stafford Street, Timaru .. . . .. 53 Coach builders 430 Canterbury Butchers .. .. .. 190 Cashel Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 79 324 Canterbury Employers of Drivers . . 196 Cashel Street, Christchurch .. .. . . 20 1015 Canterbury Flour, Oatmeal, and Pearl- 1.96 Cashel Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 16 barley Millers 339 Canterbury Grocers .. .. .. 196 Cashel Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 14 459 Canterbury Licensed Victuallers .. Royal Exchange Buildings, Christchurch .. .. 126 297 Canterbury Master Bakers . . 41 Disraeli Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 42 694 Canterbury Master Printers .. .. Art Gallery, Armagh Street, Christchurch .. .. 14 298 Canterbury Motor - body and Carriage C/o Brahmen Limited, Motor-body Works, Fitzgerald 12 Builders Avenue, Christchurch 914 Canterbury Newspaper-proprietors .. Cathedral Square, Christchurch .. .. .. 7 1256 Canterbury Nurserymen and Landscape 683 Colombo Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 11 Gardeners 305 Canterbury Sawmillers .. .. 196 Cashel Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 10 395 Canterbury Sheepowners .. .. 90 Hereford Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 860 452 Canterbury Tanners, Fellmongers, and Wool- 196 Cashel Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 11 scourers 831 Christchurch Clothing-manufacturers .. 196 Cashel Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 9 1247 Christchurch Engineers, Metal-workers, and 196 Cashel Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 14 Iron and Brass Founders 141 Christchurch Furniture-makers .. .. 196 Cashel Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 23 1069 Christchurch Hairdressers and Tobacconists 213 Manchester Street, Christchurch .. .. 46 894 Christchurch Master Plumbers .. .. 127 Gloucester Street, Christchurch .. . . .. 38 125 Christchurch Master Tailors .. .. 196 Cashel Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 30 1234 Christchurch Soft-goods Manufacturers .. 314 Gloucester Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 8 1244 Lyttelton Waterside Employers' Union .. Waterside Central Pay Office, Lyttelton .. .. 19 362 South Canterbury Master Bakers .. C/o T. S. Herron, Church Street, Timaru .. .. 10 379 South Canterbury Threshing-mill Owners 98 Stafford Street, Timaru .. .. .. .. 25 1072 Timaru Master Printers and Bookbinders Beswick Street, Timaru .. .. .. .. 9 757 Timaru Painters . . . . 85 Stafford Street, Timaru .. .. .. .. 9 1240 Timaru Waterside Employers'Union .. Hay's Buildings, Timaru .. .. .. .. 12 519 Whitcombe and Tombs (Limited) .. I 111 Cashel Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 1 Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of unions, 29 1,641 Otago and Southland Industrial District. 306 Dunedin and Suburban General Carriers 116 Lower Rattray Street, Dunedin .. .. 35 and Coal merchants 891 Dunedin and Suburban Master Butchers .. 21 Crawford Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 28 337 Dunedin Builders and Contractors .. 20 Crawford Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 102 822 Dunedin Clothing-manufacturers .. 40 Dowling Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 8 1087 Dunedin Engineers, Metal-workers, and Zealandia Chambers, Dowling Street, Dunedin .. 29 Iron and Brass Founders 1016 Dunedin Flour, Oatmeal, and Pearl-barley 196 Cashel Street, Christchurch .. .. .. 7 Millers 1004 Dunedin Furniture and Furnishing Trade 20 Crawford Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 8 189 Dunedin Master Bakers . . .. 193 Princes Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 49 313 Dunedin Master Tailors .. .. 99 High Street (P.O. Box 214), Dunedin .. .. 20 867 Dunedin Plumbers .. . . 20 Crawford Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 28 1268 Dunedin Tobacconists .. .. 20 Crawford Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 6 875 Inveroargill Plumbers .. .. .. Dee Street, Invercargill .. .. .. .. 15 560 Invercargill and Suburban Master Butchers The Crescent, Invercargill .. .. .. .. 10 318 Otago and Southland Gold-mining .. 20 Crawford Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 10 936 Otago and Southland Newspaper-proprietors Evening Star Company (Limited) Office, Dunedin .. 7 1254 Otago and Southland Nurserymen and C/o Mr. J. H. Seidelin, Byron Street, Dunedin . . 4 Landscape Gardeners 446 Otago and Southland Sheepowners .. 20 Crawford Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 183 1116 Otago and Southland Tanners .. .. 20 Crawford Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 5 1242 Otago and Southland Waterside Em- P.O. Box 3, Port Chalmers .. .. 13 ployers' Union

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° e ! Name. Registered Office. xj-2 ! l! • i *<* Otagio and Southland Industrial Distbiot—continued. 1033 Otago Coachbuilders, Blacksmiths, and 1 Dowling Street, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 17 Farriers 311 Otago Drapers and Clothiers .. .. 20 Crawford Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 4(i 302 Otago Grocers .. . . 20 Crawford Street, Dunedin .. . . .. 77 325 Otago Master Printers, Lithographers, and 1 Dowling Street, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 34 Bookbinders 343 Otago Painters .. .. 20 Crawford Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 24 406 Southland Builders and Contractors .. Arcade, Invercargill .. .. .. .. J 8 778 Southland Coachbuilders and Blacksmiths C/o T. Stevenson, Blacksmith, Tay Street, Invercargill .. 23 064 Southland Grocers .. .. .. The Crescent, Invercargill .. .. .. .. 54 332 Southland Master Tailors .. .. P.O. Box 224, Invercargill .. .. .. .. 8 137 Union Steamship Company of New Zealand Water Street, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 1 (Limited) 88 Westport Coal Company (Limited) .. 31 Water Street, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 1 Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of unions, 30 900 Taranaki Industrial District. 1272 New Plymouth General Carriers and Cus- 113 Currie Street, New Plymouth .. .. .. 15 tomhouse and Forwarding Agents 005 Taranaki Dairying and Farming .. Broadway, Stratford .. .. .. .. 57 516 Taranaki Licensed Victuallers .. .. Devon Street, New Plymouth .. .. .. 10 801 Taranaki Master Printers, Lithographers, 93 Brougham Street, New Plymouth .. .. 13 and Bookbinders 447 Taranaki Master Tailors .. .. 251 Devon Street, New Plymouth .. .. .. 1 ] Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of unions, 5 106 Marlborough Industrial District. 443 j Marlborough Sheepowners .. .. Queen Street, Blenheim .. .. .. .. j 75 Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of unions, 1 i 75 I 1 Nelson Industeial Distbiot. 1182 Nelson Grocers .. .. .. National Bank Chambers, P.O. Box 74, Nelson .. 10 856 Nelson Master Printers, Lithographers, and Bookman's Building, Trafalgar Street, Nelson .. 10 Bookbinders 774 Nelson Master Tailors .. .. .. Dees and Son's Buildings, Trafalgar Street, Nelson .. 10 Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of unions, 3 36 Westland Industrial District. 1259 Greymouth Motor Taxis .. .. Premier Garage, Tainui Street, Greymouth .. .. 12 177 Progress Mines of New Zealand (Limited) Bridge Street, Beefton .. .. .. .. 1 721 Westland Licensed Victuallers .. .. Mackay Street, Greymouth .. .. .. 56 Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of unions, 3 69 Grand totals .. .. .. Industrial unions of employers, 138 5,205 I

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£ g e 0 ®' Name. Registered Office. ij'g __ _ §2 Northern (Auckland) Industrial District. 1076 Auckland Abattoir Assistants and Freezing Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .. 114 works Employees 1029 Auckland Aerated-water, Condiment, Pre- 9 Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .. 55 serve, Biscuit, Confectionery, and Drug Factories Employees 825 Auckland and Suburban Local Bodies' 19 Tabernacle Buildings, Auckland .. 1,835 Labourers and Related Trades 190 Auckland Beamsmen's .. .. 7 Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .. 15 023 Auckland Biograph Operators .. 22 Mozley Avenue, Devonport, Auckland . . . . 49 1046 Auckland Branch of the Amalgamated Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. . . . . 1,493 Society of Carpenters and Joiners 1078 Auckland Branch of the Amalgamated Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. . . 823 Engineering Union (including Motor Mechanics, Brassfinishers, Tinsmiths, and Sheet-metal Workers) 612 Auckland Brewers, Wine and Spirit Mer- 9 Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .. 110 chants' Employees 340 Auckland Brick and Pottery and Clay 4 Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .. 196 Workers 576 Auckland Bricklayers .. .. 10 H.B. Buildings, Newton, Auckland .. . . 198 1235 Auckland Brush and Broom Trade Workers 7 Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. . . .. 15 871 Auckland Builders', General, and other 3 Trades Hall, Hobson Street, Auckland .. .. 1,376 Labourers 152 Auckland Butchers .. .. .. Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. . . .. 394 284 Auckland Certificated Engine-drivers .. 8 Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. . . .. 162 1252 Auckland Chemical Manure and Acid 27 Sheehan Street, Ponsonby, Auckland .. .. 41 Workers 1125 Auckland City Cleaners, Caretakers, and Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. 130 Liftmen 1108 Auckland City Female Bookbinders, Rulers, 9 Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .. 110 Envelope-makers, and Printers' Feeders 502 Auckland Coach and Car Builders .. 9 Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .. 75 444 Auckland Coopers .. .. .. Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. . . 30 1073 Auckland Creameries and Cheese and 2 Tabernacle Buildings, Newton, Auckland .. .. 382 Butter Factories Employees .. .. 155 Auckland Curriers .. .. .. Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. . . .. 26 720 Auckland Cutters, Trimmers, Pressers, and 11 Trades Hall, Hobson Street, Auckland . . .. 84 other Clothing Employees 753 Auckland Dairy Employees .. 4 Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. . . 133 596 Auckland District Boilermakers, Iron-ship 4 Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .. 152 Workers and Bridge-builders .. 662 Auckland Electrical Trades .. . ■ Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. . . 315 620 Auckland Farriers and General Blacksmiths 7 Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. . . 28 393 Auckland Federated Cooks and Stewards .. 16 YVaitemata Chambers, Customs Street, Auckland .. 105 508 Auckland Fellmongers, Tanners, Soap- Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .. 156 workers, and General Tannery Employees 921 Auckland Fire Brigades Employees .. 2 Tabernacle Buildings, Newton, Auckland .. . . 35 381 Auckland Fish-trade Employees (other than 38 Kiwi Road, Devonport, Auckland .. . . 53 Fishermen) 1129 Auckland Front - of - house Employees in 2 Milton Road, Mount Eden, Auckland .. .. 186 Theatres, Picture-shows, and Houses of Entertainment 1161 Auckland Gas Company's Clerical and 4 Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. 108 Showrooms Employees . 314 Auckland Grocers' Assistants .. 22 Swanson Street, Auckland .. .. . . 870 422 Auckland Gum-workers .. . . Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. . . .. 84 501 Auckland Hairdressers' Assistants .. 10 H.B. Buildings, Newton, Auckland . . .. 89 688 Auckland Hotel and Restaurant Employees 187 Queen Street, Auckland .. .. .. 2,668 149 Auckland Iron and Brass Moulders .. 14 Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .. 152 853 Auckland Journalists .. .. ..11 Swanson Street, Auckland (Box 1549) .. . . 59 840 Auckland Local Federated Seamen .. Quay Bond and Free Store, Quay Street, Auckland . . 1,166 978 Auckland Manufacturing Jewellers, Watch Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .. 33 and Clock Makers and Kindred Trades 708 Auckland Merchant Service Guild . . 36 Union Buildings, Customs Street East, Auckland .. 119 240 Auckland Motor-car and Horse Drivers and 13 Trades Hall, Hobson Street, Auckland .. . . 528 Related Trades 474 Auckland Operative Bakers and Pastrycooks Tabernacle Buildings, Auckland .. .. .. 267 59 Auckland Operative Bootmakers .. 55 Wellpark Avenue, Grey Lynn, Auckland .. . . 348 635 Auckland Operative Plasterers .. .. Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .150 108 Auckland Painters, Decorators, and Lead- Trades Hall, Hobson Street, Auckland .. .. 420 light Workers 806 Auckland Performing Musicians .. 18 Maidstone Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland .. . . 245 654 Auckland Plumbers and Gasfitters .. 5 Trades Hall, Hobson Street, Auckland .. . . 312 1096 Auckland Related Printing Trades (other 1 Arthur Street, Ellerslie, Auckland .. .. .. 200 than Typographers) .. .. 1082 Auckland Retail Chemists' Employees .. 22 Swanson Street, Auckland .. .. .. 114 1100 Auckland Retail Shop-assistants in the 22 Swanson Street, Auckland .. .. .. 653 Boot, Hardware, Crockery, Stationer}', Fancy Goods, Furniture, and Soft-goods Trades

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' ° £ Name. Registered Office. I ! Northern (Auckland) Industrial District—continued. 1246 Auckland Rope and Twine Workers .. Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .. 42 150 Auckland Saddlers, Harness-makers, Collar- Trades Hall, Hobson Street, Auckland .. .. 67 makers, Bag-makers, and Bridle-cutters Society 494 Auckland Ship, Yacht, and Boat Builders 8 Trades Hall, Auckland .. . . .. . . 76 715 Auckland Stage Employees .. .. 100 drummer Road, Ponsonby, Auckland .. .. 54 580 Auckland Stonemasons and Monumental Edendale Road, Edendale, Auckland .. . . 102 —- Workers 73 Auckland Tailoresses and other Female 15 Tabernacle Buildings, Karangahape Road, Auckland 1,426 Clothing Trade Employees 67 Auckland Tailors .. .. .. 11 Trades Hall, Hobson Street, Auckland .. .. 170 830 Auckland Tallymen's .. .. 1 Quay Street, Auckland .. .. .. .. 155 248 Auckland Timber-workers .. .. Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .. 630 .1088 Auckland Tramways .. . . .. Tabernacle Buildings, Karangahape Road, Auckland . . 918 132 Auckland Typographical .. .. 34 Great South Road, Remuera, Auckland .. .. 318 183 Auckland United Elour-miU Employees .. 2 Tabernacle Buildings, Auckland .. .. .. 65 910 Auckland United Furniture Trades .. 10 Trades Hall, Auckland . . .. .. . . 536 1101 Auckland United Storemen (other than Trades Hall, Hobson Street, Auckland •. ■ • 350 Employees in Bottling-stores). . 1144 Auckland Waterside Foremen and Time- Police and Customs Buildings, Queen's Wharf, Auckland 21 keepers 933 Auckland Waterside Workers .. .. 2 Quay Street East, Auckland .. .. .. 1,412 1168 Birkenhead Sugar-works Employees .. 4 Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. .. 192 1130 Devonport Ferry and Takapuna Tramways 8 Trades Hall, Auckland .. .. .. •• 55 and Ferry Companies' Employees 759 Gisborne and East Coast Shearers and Wool- 257 Gladstone Road, Gisborne .. .. .. 222 shed Employees 373 Gisborne Branch of the Amalgamated Liberty Hall, Gisborne .. .. .. . . 60 ~ Society of Carpenters and Joiners 1031 Gisborne Branch of the Amalgamated Liberty Hall, Gladstone Road, Gisborne .. . 28 Engineering Union (including Motor Mechanics) 699 Gisborne Motor-vehicle, Horse Drivers, and Liberty Hall, Gladstone Road, Gisborne .. .. 60 Stable Attendants 643 Gisborne Painters and Decorators .. Liberty Hall, Gladstone Road, Gisborne .. . • 26— 1232 Gisborne Performing Musicians .. .. Muir Street, Gisborne .. .. .. .. 16 661 Gisborne Printing and Related Trades .. Liberty Hall, Gladstone Road, Gisborne .. .. 30 602 Gisborne Waterside Workers .. .. Read's Quay, Gisborne .. .. .. .. 193 1227 Gleu Alton Coal-miners* .. . • Glen Alton, Pukemiro .. .. .. .. 235 798 Hamilton Branch of the Amalgamated Trades HaJI, Toorak Chambers, Hamilton .. .. 50 — Society of Carpenters and Joiners 1084 Hikurangi Coal-minersf • • .. King Street, Hikurangi .. .. .. .. 200 1109 Waikato District Coal-mine Underground Miners' Hall, Huntly .. .. .. .. 23 Officials 877 Waikato District Engine-drivers, Firemen, Hakaroa Street, Huntly. .. .. .. 15 and Fitters (in coal-mines) 1024 Kaipara Waterside Workers .. .. Public Library, Te Kopuru .. .. .. 40 779 Ohinemuri Branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Union Hall, Seddon Street, Waihi .. .. 49 Engineering Union (including Electricians and Motor Mechanics) 863 Ohinemuri Mines and Batteries Employees Seddon Street, Waihi .. .. .. .. 506 (other than Engineers, Engine-drivers, and Firemen) 799 Onehunga Branch of the Amalgamated Friendly Societies' Hall. Grey Street, Onehunga .. 126 Society of Carpenters and Joiners 940 Onehunga Waterside Workers .. .. Waterside Workers' Shed, Onehunga Wharf .. .. 65 1155 Onehunga Woollen-mill Employees .. St. Leonards, Grey Street East, Onehunga .. .. 63 1017 Otahuhu Branoh of the Amalgamated So- Luke Street, Otahuhu .. .. .. .. 57 ~- ciety of Carpenters and Joiners 777 Poverty Bay and East Coast Builders', Con- 257 Gladstone Road, Gisborne .. .. .. 48 —* tractors', and General Labourers 431 Poverty Bay Freezing-works and Related Liberty Hall, 227 Gladstone Road, Gisborne .. . . 572 Trades Employees 1053a Pukemiro Coal-mine Workers .. .. Pukemiro .. .. .. .. .. 209 837 South Auckland Engine-drivers, Winders, St. John's Schoolroom, Waihi .. .. .. 62 Motormen, and Firemen 1009 Te Akatea Coal-mine Workers .. .. Glen Massey, Ngaruawahia .. .. .. 100 1269 Te Papapa Chemical Manure Workers .. C/o J. Donovan, Mount Smart Road, Penrose .. 112 1219 Te Puke Gold-miners .. .. .. Muir's Reel, Te Puke .. .. .. .. 29 771 Thames Branch of the Amalgamated Engi- Protestant Alliance Hall, Mary Street, Thames .. 61 neering Union (including Brassfinishers) 16 Thames Miners .. .. .. Queen Street, Thames .. .. .. .. 175 1263 Tokomaru Bay Waterside Workers .. Tokomaru Bay .. .. .. . . .. 41 1056 Waihi Borough Labourers .. .. Waihi Sample-rooms, Mueller Street, Waihi . . .. 13 1202 Whakatane Waterside Workers .. . . County Council Chambers, Whakatane . . . ■ 60 1049 Whangarei Branch of the Amalgamated Harris's Rooms, James Street, Whangarei . . .. 45 *— Society of Carpenters and Joiners 1188 Whangarei Waterside Workers .. .. Whangarei .. .. .. .. .. 15 Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of unions, 103 27,656 * Cancelled, 4/6/25. t Cancelled, 30/4/25.

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Registered Office. j ,8 J" B ® 1 ; 1 ga Wellington Industrial District. 710 Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants Aitken Street, Wellington .. .. .. .. 10,007 of New Zealand 1217 Engine-drivers, Firemen, and Cleaners' Asso- 23 Bowen Street, Wellington .. .. .. 1,959 ciation 212 Federated Cooks and Stewards of New Zea- 25 Panama Street, Wellington .. .. .. 525 land 1107 Hawke's Bay Branch of the Amalgamated 3 Bryant's Buildings, Tennyson Street, Napier .. 343 Society of Carpenters and Joiners 1224 Hawke's Bay Builders and General Labour Party's Rooms, Karamu Road, Hastings .. 257 Labourers 650 Hawke's Bay Fishermen's and Fish-shed 48 Ossian Street, Port Ahuriri .. .. .. 20 Employees 1267 Hutt Valley Branch of the Amalgamated 9 Emerson Street, Petone .. .. .. .. 95 Society of Carpenters and Joiners 540 itanawatu Flax-mills Employees .. 41 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North .. .. 592 992 Masterton Amalgamated Society of Painters Trades Hall, Queen Street, Masterton .. .. 14 and Decorators 804 Masterton Branch of the Amalgamated So- Trades Hall, Queen Street, Masterton .. .. 33 ciety of Carpenters and Joiners 775 Napier Gas Employees .. 48 Ossian Street, Port Ahuriri .. .. .. 17 375 Napier Motor-vehicle and Horse Drivers .. Roskilda, Taradale, Hawke's Bay .. .. . . 142 237 Napier Painters and Decorators .. 35 Wellesley Road, Napier .. .. .. . . 70 1264 Napier Retail Drapers' Assistants .. 29 Faraday Street, Napier .. .. .. .. 48 973 Napier Tramway Employees .. .. Tramway Depot, Faraday Street, Napier .. ,. 26 389 Napier Waterside Workers .. .. Union's Office, Hardinge Road, Port Ahuriri 305 764 ; Napier Wool and Grain Store Employees Hardinge Road, Port Ahuriri, Napier .. .. 238 and Wholesale Merchants' Storemen 594 Palmerston North Branch of the Amalga- 41 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North .. . . 50 mated Society of Carpenters and Joiners 918 Palmerston North Branch of the Amalga- 326 Church Street, Palmerston North .. .. 14 mated Society of Engineers (including Motor Mechanics and Cycle-workers) 210 Palmerston North Painters and Decorators 41 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North .. . . 23 769 Petone (Wellington) Woollen - mills Em- Trades Hall, Wellington .. .. .. . . 127 ployees 641 South Wellington Branch of the Amalga- St. Thomas's Schoolroom, Riddiford Street, Newtoivn, 320 mated Society of Carpenters and Joiners Wellington 672 VVanganui Branch of the Amalgamated 46 Victoria Avenue, Wanganui ,. .. . . 205 Society of Carpenters and Joiners 768 Wanganui Branch of the Amalgamated 22 Harper Street, Gonville, Wanganui .. .. 23 Society of Engineers (including Motor Mechanics) 1057 Wanganui Bricklayers .. .. 46 Victoria Avenue, Wanganui . . .. . . 26 730 Wanganui Motor and Horse Drivers .. 46 Victoria Avenue, Wanganui .. . . . . 30 1173 Wanganui Municipal Labourers .. 22 Harper Street, Gonville, Wanganui .. . . 108 682 Wanganui Gasworks Employees.. . . Harper Street, Gonville, Wanganui .. .. .. 26 439 Wanganui Operative Butchers .. 22 Harper Street, Gonville, Wanganui .. . . 52 258 Wanganui Society of Painters and Decorators 46 Victoria Avenue, Wanganui .. .. .. 64 1215 Wanganui Theatre Employees .. .. Lincoln Road, Mosstown, Wanganui.. .. .. 11 748 Wanganui Tramway Employees.. .. 22 Harper Street, Gonville, Wanganui .. .. 46 685. Wanganui Waterside Workers .. .. Wharf Waiting-room, Wanganui .. .. 184 129 Wellington Amalgamated Society of Painters Trades Hall, Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 370 and Decorators 813 Wellington Amalgamated Society of Shop- Trades Hall, Wellington .. .. .. . 356 assistants in the Boot, Hardware, Stationery, Fancy Goods, Furniture, and Soft-goods Trades 1071 Wellington Biograph Operators .. .. Trades Hall, 126 Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 15 52 Wellington Branch of the Amalgamated Trades Hall, Wellington .. .. .. .. 547 Society of Carpenters and Joiners 1066 Wellington Amalgamated Engineering Union Trades Hall, 126 Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 370 (including Brass-finishers, Coppersmiths, Motor Mechanics, and Tinplate and Sheetmetal Workers) 991 Wellington Brewers, Bottlers, Bottle- Trades Council Chambers, Wellington .. .. 46 washers, and Aerated-water Employees (other than Storemen and Drivers) 1192 Wellington Brick, Clay, and Pottery Trades Hall, Wellington .. .. .. .. 49 Workers 528 Wellington Bricklayers .. 28 Kauri Street, Eastbourne, Wellington .. . . 51 1077 Wellington Builders' and General Labourers Trades Hall, 126 Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 801 1102 Wellington City Gasworks Employees .. 80 Manners Street, Wellington . . .. . . 97 1134 Wellington City Ships Tally Clerks .. 106 Adelaide Road, Wellington . . . . . . 98 1204 Wellington City Tramways and Power- 257 Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington .. .. 589 houses Employees 173 Wellington Coachworkers .. .. Trades Hall, 126 Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 40 966 Wellington Dairy Employees .. .. Trades Hall, Wellington .. .. .. .. 56 218 Wellington District Hotel, Club, and 80 Manners Street, Wellington .. .. .. 2,414 Restaurant Workers 611 Wellington Electrical Workers .. .. Trades Hall, 126 Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 218 76 Wellington Federated Furniture Trade .. Trades Hall, 120 Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 417

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® e t? Kame. Registered Office. la I !5 a Wellington Industrial District —continued. 1174 Wellington Female Printers'Assistants .. | 31 Duncan Terrace, Wellington .. .. .. 120 1079 Wellington Freezing-works and Related ' Trades Hall, 126 Vivian Street, Wellington . . .. 2,400 Trades Employees 915 Wellington Hairdressers', Hairworkers', and 31 Duncan Terrace, Wellington .. .. .. 70 Wigmakers' Assistants 97 Wellington Iron and Brass Moulders .. Trades Hall, Wellington .. .. .. .. 72 1023 Wellington Journalists .. .. 31 Duncan Terrace, Wellington .. .. . 00 960 Wellington Local Federated Seamen .. 130 Featherston Street, Wellington .. .. .. 1,492 931 Wellington Manufacturing Jewellers, Watch Trades Hall, Wellington .. .. . ■ 15 and Clock Makers, and Kindred Trades* j 1170 Wellington Match-factory .. . . Trades Hall, 126 Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 50 482 Wellington Merchant Service Guild .. I 153-55 Featherston Street, Wellington .. . 192 930 Wellington Metal-workers' Assistants .. Trades Hall, Wellington .. .. .. . . 248 219 Wellington Motor-car and Horse Drivers, | 130 Featherston Street, Wellington .. .. . . 514 and Stable-attendants 1 Wellington Operative Bakers and Pastry- j Druids Hall, Lower Tory Street, Wellington .. . . 305 cooks and Bakers and Pastrycooks' Labourers 14 Wellington Operative Bootmakers' Society Trades Hail, 126 Vivian Street, Wellington .. . . 214 134 Wellington Operative Butchers .. .. Trades Hall, 126 Vivian Street, Wellington . . . • 294 808 Wellington Performing Musicians .. 39 Courtenay Place, Wellington . . .. . 183 200 Wellington Plasterers .. .. .. Trades Hall, Vivian Street, Wellington .. . . 74 69 Wellington Plumbers and Gasfitters .. Trades Hall, Wellington .. .. . . .. 265 1212 Wellington Related Printing Trades (other 31 Duncan Terrace, Wellington .. . . . . 314 than Female Assistants. Journalists, and Typographers) 234 Wellington Retail Grocers' Assistants .. Trades Hall, 126 Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 505 167 Wellington Saddlers .. .. .. Trades Hall, Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 58 027 Wellington Shearers .. .. 3 Terrall Street, Aramoho, Wanganui . . . . 460 1262 Wellington Shipwrights and Boatbuilders.. Trades Hall, Vivian Street, Wellington . . . ■ 36 1018 Wellington Stage Supernumeraries .. 3 Oxford Street, Wellington .. . . . . 27 242 Wellington Stationary, Traction, and Loco- Trades Hall, 126 Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 162 motive Engine Drivers, and their Assistants 038 | Wellington Stonemasons .. .. Trades Hail, Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 10 405 Wellington Tailoresses, Cutters, Pressers, 147 Cuba Street, Wellington .. .. .. 414 and other Clothing-trade Employees (except Tailors) 2 Wellington Tailors .. .. . . Trades Hall, Vivian Street, Wellington .. .. 214 705 Wellington Theatrical Stage Employees .. Trades Hall, Wellington .. . . .. .. 220 220 Wellington Timber-yards and Sawmills .. Trades Hall, Wellington .. .. .. .. 176 15 Wellington Typographical .. 39 Duncan Terrace, Wellington .. .. .. 447 19 Wellington United Boilermakers, Iron and Trades Hall, Wellington .. .. .. .. 112 Steel Ship and Bridge Builders 773 Wellington Wholesale Merchants' Employees Trades Hall, Vivian Street, Wellington .. . . 460 (other than Drivers and Clerks) 932 Wellington Waterside Workers .. .. 130 Featherston Street, Wellington .. .. .. 1,721 Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of unions, 83 34,504 Canterbury Industrial District. 1172 Ashburton Branch of the Amalgamated 18 Rapley Street, Hampstead, Ashburton .. .. 28 Society of Carpenters and Joiners 463 Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Trades Hall, Christchurch .. . . .. .. 527 Labourers 787 Canterbury Bakers, and Pastrycooks Em- Trades Hall, Christchurch . . .. .. .. 240 ployees 566 Canterbury Bricklayers .. .. Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 93 726 Canterbury Brick, Pottery, Pipe, Tile, and Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 88 Clay Workers 176 Canterbury Builders'and General Labourers, Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 1,053 Quarry-workers, and Wool and Grain Store Employees 48 Canterbury Carpenters and Joiners .. 3 Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. . . 120 263 Canterbury Coachbuilders .. .. Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 112 194 Canterbury Curriers .. .. .. Druids' Hall, Woolston, Christchurch .. . . 20 555 Canterbury Dairymen's Employees .. 3 Trades Hall, Christchurch . . . . . . 39 747 Canterbury Freezing-works and Related 7 Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. 1,845 Trades Employees 274 Canterbury Grocers' Assistants .. .. Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. . . .. 165 652 Canterbury Hotel and Restaurant Em- Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 1,540 ployees 281 Canterbury Motor-car, Horse Drivers, and 15 Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. 701 Livery-stable Employees 288 Canterbury Shearers .. .. .. Trades Hall, Christchurch .. . . . . .. 469 268 Canterbury Timber-yards, Sawmills, and 15 Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. 187 Coal-yards Employees * Cancelled 2/4/25,

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I ' ' ~ O w* Name. Registered Office. B g I* Canterbury Industrial District—-continued. 140 Canterbury Traction and Stationary Engine 3 Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. 142 Drivers and Fireman 266 Canterbury Woollen-mills Employees .. Oddfellows'jLodge-room, Hilton Street, Kaiapoi .. 205 549 Christchurch Aerated-water Workers and Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 42 other Bottlers 20 Christchurch Branch of the Amalgamated Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 74 J Society of Carpenters and Joiners, Joiners' Machinists, and Shipwrights 1061 Christchurch Branch, of the Amalgamated 13 Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. 937 Engineering Union (including Brasslinishers, Range-workers, Metal-workers' Assistants, Electrical Workers, Tinsmiths, Sheet-metal Workers, and Cycle-workers) 550 Christchurch Brewers, Maltsters, and Re- Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 150 lated Trades 1064 Christchurch Brush and Broom Trade .. Trades Hall, Christchureh .. .. .. .. 56 1139 Christchurch Clerks, Cashiers, and .Office Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 21 Employees 1150 Christchurch Dress and Mantle Makers . . Trades Hall, 194 Gloucester Street, Christchurch .. 233 1083 Christchurch Federated Furniture Trades Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. . . 253 300 Christchurch Gardeners .. . . Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 62 573 Christchurch Gasworks Employees . . 3 Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. 85 236 Christchurch Hairdressers and Tobacconists' Trades Hall, Christchurch. .. .. .. .. 40 Assistants 107 Christchurch Iron and Brass Moulders .. Trades Hall, 194 Gloucester Street, Christchurch 109 857 Christchurch Journalists .. 3 Trades Hall, Christchurch . . .. .. 80 1000 Christchurch Manufacturing Jewellers, Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. . . .. 12 Watch and Clock Makers, and Kindred Trades 35 Christchurch Operative Bootmakers' Society Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 365 193 Christchurch Operative Butchers .. Trades Hall, Gloucester Street, Christchurch .. .. 148 385 Christchurch Operative Stonemasons .. Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 25 81 Christchurch Painters .. .. .. Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 267 809 Christchurch Performing Musicians .. 3 Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. . . 200 1126 Christchurch Picture-theatres Employees 3 Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. 75 and Front-of-house Employees in other Theatres 123 Christchurch Plasterers .. 3 Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. 87 38 Christchurch Plumbers and Gasfitters .. 3 Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. 131 1147 Christchurch Printing Trades .. .. Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 460 916 Christchureh Retail Shop-assistants (other Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 329 than Grocers, Chemists, Tobacconists, and Hairdressers' Assistants) 1201 Christchurch Rope, Twine, and Flock Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 49 Makers 223 Christchurch Saddlers, Harness and Collar Trades Hall, Gloucester Street, Christchurch .. .. 43 Makers 5 Christchurch Stage Employees .. .. Theatre Royal, Christchurch .. .. .. 56 11 Christchurch Tailoresses, Cutters, Pressers, Trades Hall, 194 Gloucester Street, Christchurch .. 460 and other Clothing-trade Employees 105 Christchurch Tailoring Trade .. .. Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 407 547 Christchurch Tramway Employees .. Trades Hall, Gloucester Street, Christchurch .. .. 412 1169 Christchurch Tramway Officials .. Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 13 1095 Christchurch Wholesale Merchants' Em- 11 Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. 130 ployees (other than Drivers and Clerks) 1127 Lyttelton Branch of the Amalgamated 60 Hastings Street, Sydenham, Christchurch .. .. 22 Society of Carpenters and Joiners, Joiners' Machinists, and Shipwrights 1152 Lyttelton Ships Tally Clerks .. .. Base of No. 3 Wharf, Lyttelton .. . . .. 55 938 Lyttelton Waterside Workers .. .. Coronation Hall, Lyttelton .. .. .. ■. 652 1099 Rangiora Branch of the Amalgamated Templar Hall, Rangiora .. .. .. .. 16 Society of Carpenters and Joiners 692 South Canterbury Timber-yards, Sawmills, Y.M.C.A., Timaru .. .. .. .. 23 and Coal-yards Employees 737 Timaru Branch of the Amalgamated Society Y.M.C. A., George's Place, Timaru .. .. .. 88 of Carpenters and Joiners 1035 Timaru Branch of the Amalgamated W.E.A. Rooms, Sophia Street, Timaru .. .. j 65 Engineering Union (including Motor Mechanics) 386 Timaru Carpenters .. .. .. Y.M.C.A. Rooms, Timaru .. .. .. .. 42 481 Timaru Society of Painters and Decorators Y.M.C.A. Buildings, George Street, Timaru .. .. 30 1180 Timaru United Millers and Flour-mill Em- Workers' Educational Association Rooms, George Street, | 21 ployees Timaru 902 Timaru Wharf Labourers .. .. Strathallan Hall, Timaru .. .. .. .. 177 372 United Boilermakers, Iron and Steel Ship Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 85 Builders of Canterbury 174 United Millers, Engine-drivers, and Mill Trades Hall, Christchurch .. .. .. .. 27 Employees' Society of Canterbury 327 Waimate Workers .. .. .. Waimate .. .. .. .. .. 47 Totals .. .. .. .. Number of unions, 64 15,402

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Name. Registered Office. H <u I Zifi Otago and Southland Industrial District. 758 Bluff Waterside .. .. .. Waterside Workers' Waiting-room, Bluff .. . . 263 776 Dunedin and Mosgiel Woollen-mills Em- Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 050 ployees 1028 Dunedin and Port Chalmers United Ship- Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. . . 22 Wrights 1112 Dunedin and Suburban Boot-repairers .. Trades Hall, Moray Place, Dunedin .. .. .. 17 892 Dunedin and Suburban General Electrical Trades Hall, Moray Place, Dunedin .. .. .. 100 — Workers 221 Dunedin and Suburban Operative Butchers Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 110 903 Dunedin and Suburban Operative Licensed Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 23 Drainers 895 Dunedin Amalgamated Society of Shop- Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 390 assistants (other than Grocers, Butchers, Chemists, Tobacconists, and Hairdressers' assistants) 1153 Dunedin Amalgamated Warehousemen .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 56 89 Dunedin Bakers and Pastrycooks .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 126 1142 Dunedin Biscuit and Confectionery Mann- 95 Lower Rattray Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 194 facturing Employees 1081 Dunedin Branch of the Amalgamated Trades Hall, Moray Place, Dunedin .. .. .. 414 Engineering Union and Allied Trades 873 Dunedin Brewers, Bottlers, Bottle-washers, Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 40 and Aerated Waters 1186 Dunedin Brickmakers, Potterymakers, Tile- Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 15 makers, and Sanitary-pipe Makers 1080 Dunedin Brush and Broom Trade .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 30 703 Dunedin Canister-workers .. .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 18 1094 Dunedin City Corporation Tramway Officials Electric-car Depot, Market Street, Dunedin .. .. 26 84 Dunedin Federated Furniture Trades .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 123 1012 Dunedin Felt-hatters .. .. .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 20 1131 Dunedin Fire Brigades Employees .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 24 1060 Dunedin Gardeners and Forest Labourers Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. ,. .. 57 854 Dunedin Journalists .. .. .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. , . .. 50 995 Dunedin Local Federated Seamen .. 1 Crawford Street, Dunedin .. , „ . . 472 1196 Dunedin Manufacturing Chemists' Em- Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 32 ployees 974 Dunedin Manufacturing Jewellers, Watch Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. ,. .. 12 and Clock Makers, and Kindred Trades 45 Dunedin Operative Bootmakers .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. . . . . 198 71 Dunedin Operative Stonemasons .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 14 — 93 Dunedin Painters .. .. .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 160 — 1236 Dunedin Paint and Varnish Factory Em- Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 5 ployees 1158 Dunedin Paper-mills Employees .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 120 770 Dunedin Performing Musicians .. .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 108 36 Dunedin Pressers, Cutters, and other Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 62 Clothing-factory Operatives 647 Dunedin Printers' Machinists, Bookbinders, Trades Hall, Dunedin (Secretary, Robert Ferguson, 212 Lithographers, and Related Trades .. 754 George Street) 1098 Dunedin Retail Chemists'Assistants .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 19 1038 Dunedin Rope and Twine Spinners .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 26 711 Dunedin Stage Employees .. .. Trades Hal], Dunedin .. .. .. .. 37 58 Dunedin Tailoresses and other Female 26 Dowling Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 931 Clothing-trade Employees 942 Dunedin Theatrical and Shows Employees Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 35 (other than Stage Hands) 735 Dunedin Trawlers .. .. .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 9 99 Dunedin United Plumbers and Gasfitters Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 80 ~- 935 Dunedin Waterside Workers .. .. Rattray Street Wharf, Dunedin .. .. .. 281 1165 Dunedin Wax-vesta Employees .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 25 1179 Dunedin Wholesale Storemen's .. .. 95 Lower Rattray Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 496 996 Green Island Coal-miners .. .. Fairfield, Dunedin.. .. .. .. .. 29 1140 Green Island Iron-rolling Mills Employees Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 38 9 Invercargill Bootmakers .. .. Labour Rooms, Esk Street, Invercargill .. . . 19 792 Invercargill Branch of the Amalgamated Allen's Hall, Kelvin Street, Invercargill .. . . 400 — Society of Carpenters and Joiners 731 Invercargill Branch of the Amalgamated Labour Hall, Esk Street, Invercargill .. .. 65 Engineering Union (including Motor Mechanics, Electricians, and other Electrical Workers) 1203 Invercargill Hotel, Restaurant, and Board- Allen's Hall, Kelvin Street, Invercargill .. .. 200 inghouse Employees 1167 Invercargill Retail Grocers' Assistants .. Allen's Hall, Kelvin Street, Invercargill .. . . 110 1159 Invercargill Retail Soft-goods Employees.. 62 Esk Street, Invercargill .. .. .. .. 45 1249 Invercargill Tanners and Fellmongers .. West Plain Road, Waikiwi .. .. .. .. 64 848 Invercargill Tramways .. .. 262 Tweed Street, Invercargill .. .. .. I 59 80 Tron and Brass Moulders' Union of New Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. J 186 Zealand 1181 Kaikorai Cable Tramway Employees .. Conductors' Room, Dunedin and Kaikoi-ai Tram Com- 36 pany's Power-house, Kaikorai Valley, Dunedin 829 Kaitangata Coal-miners .. .. Exmouth Street, Kaitangata .. .. .. | 230

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o ii Name. Registered Office ij g ' P Otago and Southland Industrial District —continued. 971 Nightcaps District Coal-miners .. .. Main Road, Nightcaps .. .. .. . . 264 1059 Oamaru Flour-mills Employees .. .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. . . .. 32 1160 Oamaru Grocers' Assistants .. 52 Lune Street, Oamaru .. .. .. .. 18 1037 Oamaru Painters .. .. .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. . . . . . . 19 945 Oamaru Waterside Workers .. .. Waiting-shed, Waterfront, Oamaru .. . . . . 88 1085 Oamaru Woollen-mill Employees .. Factory Lane, Oamaru .. .. .. 96 1266 Otago and Southland Agricultural, Dairy- Main South Road, Allanton .. . . .. 30 ing, Fruit and Pastoral Farm Assistants (other than Musterers, Packers, Drovers, Harvest, Threshing-mill and Chaffcutter Employees, Shepherds, and Shearers) 876 Otago and Southland Farriers .. .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 15 599 Otago and Southland Freezing-works and Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 546 Related Trades Employees 1133 Otago and Southland Harvest Hands, Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 167 Threshing - mill, and Chaffcutter Employees 1176 Otago and Southland Lime, Cement, Phos- Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 85 phate, and Marl Employees 503 Otago and Southland Operative Tailors Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. 175 and Shop Tailoresses 182 Otago and Southland Saddle-makers, Har- Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. . . 33 ness-makers, Collar-makers, Bag-makers, Cover-makers, and Bridle-cutters 398 Otago and Southland Shearers .. .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. . . 247 1138 Otago and Southland Shepherds, Musterers, Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 78 and Drovers 267 Otago Box-workers .. .. .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. . . 40 78 Otago Branch of the Amalgamated Society Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 571 of Carpenters and Joiners 246 Otago Bricklayers .. .. .. 106 Glen Road, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 39 205 Otago Coachworkers and Wheelwrights .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. . . 24 506 Otago Engine - drivers, Firemen, and Trades Hall, Dunedin . . .. .. .. 88 Greasers 166 Otago Flour-mill Employees .. .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. . . .. 18 507 Otago General Labourers, Builders' La- Trades Hall, Dunedin . .. .. . . 500 bourers, Quarrymen, and Coal-yard Employees 217 Otago Grocers' Assistants .. . . Trades Hall, Moray Place, Dunedin .. . . . . 40 578 Otago Hairdressers' Assistants .. . . Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. . . . . 48 675 Otago Hotel, Restaurant, and Boarding- Jamieson's Buildings, Stuart Street, Dunedin . . ! 303 house Employees 197 Otago Metal-workers' Assistants .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 252 1119 Otago Motor-vehicle and Horse Drivers, Lower Rattray Street, Dunedin .. .. .. 564 and Stable-attendants 216 Otago Operative Plasterers .. .. Trades H all, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 31 252 Otago Timber-yards and Sawmills .. Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. .. 115 77 Otago Typographical .. .. .. Trades Hall, Dunedin (Secretary, R. Ferguson, 754 114 George Street) 956 Port Chalmers Waterside Workers . . Cross Wharf, Port Chalmers .. .. .. 290 1233 Pukeuri Freezing-workers .. .. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham's Boardinghouse, Pukeuri . . 127 989 Southland and Otago Cheese and Butter 62 Esk Street, Invercargill .. .. .. . . 235 Factories Employees (other than Managers) 833 Southland and Otago Cheese-factory Man- 62 Esk Street, Invercargill .. . . .. . . 72 agers 411 Southland Federated Furniture Trades .. Allen's Hall, Kelvin Street, Invercargill .. .. 49 1039 Southland Milk-condensing Factories Em- P.O. Box 314, Invercargill .. .. . . .. 57 ployees 225 Southland Operative Butchers .. .. Allen's Hall, Kelvin Street, Invercargill . . . . 51 784 Southland Painters and Decorators .. Allen's Hall, Kelvin Street, Invercargill . . . . 60 834 Southland Plumbers, Gasiitters, Tinsmiths, Allen's Hall, Kelvin Street, Invercargill . . . . 50 and Sheet-metal Workers 245 Southland Timber-yards and Sawmills .. 62 Esk Street, Invercargill .. .. .. 1,050 315 Southland Typographical .. .. Labour Office, Esk Street, Invercargill .. . . 31 1251 Taratu Coal-mine Employees .. .. Taratu, Otago .. .. .. .. .. 52 102 United Boilermakers and Iron-ship Builders Trades Hall, Dunedin .. .. .. . . 62 of Otago 927 Waronui Coal-miners .. .. .. Milton, Otago .. .. .. .. .. 21 Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of unions, 100 14,430 Takanaki Industrial District. 817 Hawera Branch of the Amalgamated So- Foresters' Hall, Hawera .. .. .. .. 12 ciety of Carpenters and Joiners 805 New Plymouth Branch of the Amalgamated Workers' Hall, New Plymouth .. .. .. 87 Society of Carpenters and Joiners 1089 New Plymouth Freezing-works Employees Town Hall, New Plymouth .. .. .. 4 811 New Plymouth General Labourers . Workers' Hall, Courtney Street, New Plymouth .. 165 1122 New Plymouth Grocers'Assistants .. Workers'Hall, New Plymouth .. .. .. 57

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O Name. Registered Office. i 3 s ! Taeanaki Industrial District —continued. 1214 New Plymouth Hotel and Restaurant Em- Workers'Social Hall, New Plymouth .. .. 100 ployees 1151 New Plymouth Motor-car and Horse Drivers Workers Social Hall, New Plymouth.. .. .. 41 1185 New Plymouth Retail Butchers .. Workers'Hall, New Plymouth .. .. .. 17 982 New Plymouth Timber-yards and Sawmills Workers Social Hall, New Plymouth.. .. .. 41 Employees 1068 New Plymouth Tramways Employees .. Darnell Street, Fitzroy, New Plymouth .. .. 36 1200 New Plymouth United Storemen and Workers' Hall, New Plymouth .. .. .. 22 Packers (other than Employees in Grocery Establishments) 934 New Plymouth Waterside Workers .. Workers' Hall, New Plymouth .. .. .. 195 818 Stratford Branch of the Amalgamated So- Ariel Street South, Stratford .. .. .. 12 — cietv of Carpenters and Joiners 908 Taranaki Operative Bakers and Pastrycooks Workers' Hall, New Plymouth .. .. .. 30 208 Taranaki Operative Bootmakers .. Workers' Hall, Courtney Street, New Plymouth .. 9 1113 Waitara Freezing-works Employees .. West Quay, Waitara .. .. .. .. 207 Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of unions, 16 1,035 Marlborough Industrial District. 1223 Blenheim Motor-vehicle, Horse - drivers, 10 Carvell Street, Blenheim .. .. .. 14 and Stable Attendants 1163 Blenheim United Storemen (other than em- 10 Carvell Street, Blenheim .. .. .. 34 ployees in Retail Grocery and Soft-goods Establishments) j 401 Marlborough Building Trades .. .. Bank Street, Springlands, Blenheim .. .. .. 53 — 1143 Marlborough Farm and Station Employees Zealandia Caf6, Blenheim .. .. .. .. 46. (other than Shearers and Shed Hands) .. 707 Marlborough Freezing-works Employees .. Foresters' Hall, Picton .. .. .. .. 80 1271 Marlborough Hotel, Private Hotel, Club, " Loloma," High Street, Blenheim .. .. .. 17 and Restaurant Workers 615 Marlborough Shearers .. .. .. Zealandia Cafe, Blenheim .. .. .. .. 63 975 Picton Waterside Workers .. .. Waiting-room, Wharf Head, Picton .. .. .. 56 Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of unions. 8 363 Nelson Industrial District. 1145 Golden Bay Cement Company's Employees Motupipi, Takaka .. .. .. .. .. 76 1178 Nelson Amalgamated Society of Shop- Opie's Rooms, Bridge Street, Nelson.. .. .. 50 assistants .. 572 Nelson Branch of the Amalgamated Society Macaulay's Rooms, Hardy Street, Nelson .. .. 87*™ of Carpenters and Joiners 1166 Nelson Branch of the Amalgamated Engi- Orange Hall, Collingwood Street, Nelson .. .. 48 neering Union (including Motor Mechanics) 1199 Nelson Brewers, Maltsters, Bottlers, Bottle- Opie's Rooms, Bridge Street, Nelson.. .. .. .21 washers, and Aerated-water 1265 Nelson Hotel, Private Hotel, Club, and Opie's Rooms, 71 Bridge Street, Nelson .. .. 73 Restaurant Workers 448 Nelson Labourers .. .. .. Orange Hall, Collingwood Street, Nelson .. .. 27 — 1146 Nelson Motor-car and Horse Drivers .. Opie's Hall, Bridge Street, Nelson .. .. .. 44 445 Nelson Painters .. .. .. Stallard's Rooms, Hardy Street, Nelson .. .. 24564 Nelson, Plumbers Gasfitters, and Sheet- Stallard's Rooms, Hardy Street, Nelson .. .. 15 — metal Workers 762 Nelson Tailors and Tailoresses .. .. Opie's Rooms, Bridge Street, Nelson.. .. .. 24 570 Nelson Typographical .. .. .. Old Dresden Rooms, Nelson .. .. .. 9 949 Nelson Waterside Workers .. .. Universal Hall, Haven Road, Nelson .. .. 88 1106 North Cape C'oal-miners .. .. Union Hall, Puponga .. .. .. .. 25 Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of unions, 14 611

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INDUSTRIAL UNIONS OF WORKERS —continued.

The undermentioned unions have failed to send in their annual returns, or have sent in invalid returns, and inquiry is being made as to their position. There is reason to believe that most of them are now defunct: — Northern Industrial District. Industrial Union of Employers. The Poverty Bay Master Farriers and Blacksmiths' Industrial Union of Employers, registered number 864, situated at Waerengaahika. Industrial Unions of Workers. The Auckland Hardware Assistants' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1156, situated at Auckland. The Auckland Sail, Tent, and Cover Makers' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 384, situated at Auckland. The Hamilton Branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (including Electricians and Motor Mechanics) Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1230, situated at Hamilton. The Poverty Bay District Drovers' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1211, situated at Gisborne. The Russell Waterside Workers' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1190, situated at Russell. The Taupiri Coal-mine and Waikato Extended Coal-mine Workers' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 951, situated at Huntly. Wellington Industrial District. Industrial Unions of Employers. The Hastings Master Horse-shoers' Industrial Union of Employers, registered number 680, situated at Hastings. The Manawatu Master Bakers' Industrial Union of Employers, registered number 901, situated at Palmerston North. The Napier Master Printers, Lithographers, and Bookbinders' Industrial Union of Employers, registered number 890, situated at Napier. The Palmerston North Master Butchers' Industrial Union of Employers, registered number 766, situated at Palmerston North.

* !!g jjj-® 8 ' ; Name. Kegistered Office. -S-® z« Westland Industrial District. 981 Denniston Engine-drivers, Firemen, Brakes- Oddfellows' Hal], Denniston .. .. .. 41 men, Carpenters and Joiners, Blacksmiths, and Fitters 1030 Grey and Buller Coal-mines Deputies and Granity .. .. .. .. .. .. 69 Underviewers 1250 Greymouth Printing Trades .. .. 124 High Street, Greymouth .. . . .. 18 952 Greymouth Waterside Workers .. .. Richmond Quay, Greymouth .. .. .. 190 82 | Inangahua Gold and Coal Miners .. Bridge Street, Reefton .. .. . . .. 331 1042 Millerton and Granity Engine-drivers, Fire- Torea Street, Granity .. .. .. .. 45 I men, Brakesmen, Bricklayers, Blacksmiths, Carpenters, and Fitters 858 Westland Branch of the Amalgamated Engi- Foresters' Hall, Albert Street, Greymouth .. .. 32 neering Union (including Metal-workers' Assistants, Motor Mechanics, and Cycle Workers) 968 Westland Engine-drivers, Firemen, Motor- Lyceum Hall, Guinness Street, Greymouth .. .. 68 men, Brakesmen, Blacksmiths, Electricians, and Pumpmen* 1228 Westland Hotel and Restaurant Employees Lyceum Hall, Guinness Street, Greymouth .. .. 210 1164 Westland Retail Shop-assistants in the Soft- Lyceum Hall, Guinness Street, Greymouth .. .. 171 goods, Fancy-goods, Furniture, Stationery, Hardware, Chemists, Tobacconists, Grocers, Boot, and Butchers' Trades 754 Westland Tailoring Trade .. 10 Puketahi Street, Greymouth .. .. .. j 24 1111 Westland Timber-yards and Sawmills .. Joyce's Buildings, Albert Street, Greymouth .. .. 1,464 690 Westport General Labourers and Mechanics 29 Russell Street, Westport . . .. .. 58 — 959 Westport Waterside Workers .. .. Domett Street, Westport .. .. .. .. 100 Totals .. .. .. .. .. Number of unions, 14 2,821 Grand totals .. .. .. Industrial unions of workers; 402 96,822 ♦Cancelled, 18/6/25.

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Industrial Unions of Workers. The Chief Stewards Guild of New Zealand Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 763, situated at Wellington. The Hastings Fruit Cool Store, and Orchard, Nursery, and Garden Employees' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1154, situated at Hastings. Canterbury Industrial District. Industrial Union of Workers. The Mount Torlesse Coal-miners' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1194, situated at Avoca. Otago and Southland Industrial District. Industrial Unions of Workers. The Dunedin Clerks, Cashiers, and Office Assistants' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1157, situated at Dunedin. The Finegand Freezing Workers' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1231, situated at Balclutha. The Mataura Coal-miners' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1187, situated at Mataura. The Shag Point Coal-miners' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1177, situated at Shag Point. Taranaki Industrial District. Industrial Unions of Employers. The Taranaki Master Builders' Industrial Union of Employers, registered number 204, situated at New Plymouth. The Taranaki Provincial Retail Grocers' Industrial Union of Employers, registered number 1229, situated at Stratford. Industrial Unions of Workers. The New Plymouth Branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (including Electricians and Motor Mechanics) Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1213, situated at New Plymouth. The Taranaki Tailoring Trade Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 794, situated at New Plymouth. Westland Industrial District. Industrial Union of Employers. The Buller Licensed Victuallers' Industrial Union of Employers, registered number 1237, situated at Westport. Industrial Unions of Workers. The Otira Coach-drivers, Motor-car Drivers, Stable Attendants, and Livery-stable Employees' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1198, situated at Greymouth.

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