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Shops and Shop-assistants Acts. These Acts have not worked so smoothly as could have been wished Some of the small* I, Seevants' Ebgistey-ofpicbs Act the Act came into force. The amount received in license-fees is £2 10s § ° P SmC6 In closing this report I desire to repeat that, with the exceDtion of' twn nr tl, n , SHE^γ™"* ,, ll,e g ~" .tr B tr o o 0 :^; e "o t s rLtp p , E. Tregear, Esq. I have &c, JOHN LOMAS.

DUNBDIN. Tv™ fi i i ■ Department of Labour, Dunedin, 10th Auril 189fi past year TO h ° no ™ t0 «*=* »7 *•?** of the department under my charfe 'dS g the "Factoeies Act, 1894." 5? * £ f^' the increase in registrations is comparatively small, there have been file^mfdredT % ' ployed during the present year, which may be deemed a sure -Tw hundred more persons emcorresponding prosperity uTthe ThTs f ac t " bl the'la "" overtime worked, exceeding last year's operations by 300 ver ™ ? J ? if T° Unt of tributed mainly amongst the following industries • Plnthi™ t , ■ I overtlme has be en dishosiery, card-bLd box, dressmaking, waterproof, increased the weekly hours of labour lor women and you", persons from foJl'T T Whl ° h hours per week. Thiscauses considerable dissatisfaction c "k c t P J" n"" ■ does an encroachment on the eight-hours principle, and whTehS Jnldlx'JS?^obvSf & ?tt to the provisions of the Act of 1891. y obviated by reverting Twenty accidents have been reported, but it is satisfactory to note that there h«« 1 parative immunity from serious accidents from machinery. Those accidents Set h« a i° m " mostly of a slight nature, with one exception which u.lfortunn TZ „'" ts *• ocoarred are life and another having his leg broken. It is onlJ fa rto state however f, " T l ° llis was attachable to any defect in the machinery or ne^Let or? the. Dart ot c °T n0 Wame being caused through the boys improperly dSrinT^SnSW^* Shops and Shop-assistants Act i'SjSS^' lB% ' W" t0 gi - & owing to the exemptions fn regard io tl tK