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(2.) Trades in which Increased Wages or Shorter Hours (generally) have been fixedcontinued.

Trade. District. Hoars. From Hours. ). To Wages. Years of First and Last Awards From To Sausage-casings workers Wellington (City) .. Stationary 48 48 Stationary 48 48 Stationary Classers and measurers : 1/ per hour | 1/2 per hour Salters : lid. per hour j 1/ per hour Able xeamenjand trimmers : £6/10 per [ £7 per month month First-class ordinary seamen : £4/10 per £5 per month month Second-class ordinary seamen : £3/10 per £4 per month month Lamp-trimmer and able seaman : £7/10 per | £8 per month month Ditto, all items Ditto, all items Machine shearers : 15/6 per 100, | 18/ per 100, with rations with rations Hand-shearers : 16/8 per 100, | 18/ per 100, with rations with rations Hand or machine shearers : 15/ per 100, 18/ per 100, with rations with rations Sheep and lambs : 20/ per 100 | 23/ per 100 Leg-of-mutton sheep : 16/8 per 100 | 20/ per 100 Potters : 12/6 per 100 | 18/ per 100 Rams : 25/ per 100 | 33/4 per 100 Cooling-floor and guthouse hands : 7/ per day 7/6 per day Boners : 8/ per day 8/6 per day Manure and blood crushers : 7/6 per day 8/ per day Chamber hands : 1/ to 1/1 I 1/3 per hour per hour Firemen : 52/6 per week 56/ of 7 days Nightwatchmen : 7/6 per night 60/ per week of 7 days Youths : 12/6 to 35/ 12/ to 35/ (decrease) Sheep and lambs, per 100 : 20/ I 23/ Dead sheep and lambs : 5d. each 1/ each Slaughtermen : 60/ ' I 65/ All sheep and lambs : 18/ to 20/ 25/ per 100 per 100 I Rams : 4d. each 5d. each Pigs: 9d. to 1/ each | 1/ to 1/6 each Calves : 1/ each 1/ to 2/ each Centrifugal driers : 48/ [ 51/ Scoopers : 45/ 48/ Youths : 20 to 21 years : 30/ per week j 33/ per week I 12/6 to 17/6 J 15/ to 25/ Apprentices : ; 3/6 to 7/6 j 5/ to 15/ Journeywomen : ! 12/6 to 25/ [ 25/ 1901, 1908 Wellington (Whakatu) 1908, 1909 Seamen .. Auckland 1897, 1608 Wellington Dunedin .. Canterbury 1898, 1908 1897, 1908 1902, 1908 Stationary Shearers Stationary 481 m y> Otago and Southland 50 48j 1902, 1909 Slaughtermen Gisbome Stationary 1904, 1907 Wellington (City) .. Not fixed I 1904, 1907 „ (abattoirs) .. Canterbury Stationary 48 48 Not fixed 1904, 1907 1901, 1909 Sugar-workers Northern (Birkenhead' 1902, 1906 Stationary Tailoresses (tactory) Northern (Auckland) Not fixed i 1897, 1904 Wellington, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland Stationary 45 45 1898, 1909