19

H.—44

3. Every person commits an offence who sells or agrees or offers to sell as hand-made or hand-tailored any garment that is not wholly made by hand and otherwise made in accordance with the requirements of these regulations respecting tailor-made garments. 4. Every person commits an offence who sells or agrees or offers to sell as tailor-made any garment that is not tailor-made. 5. A garment sold, offered for sale, or described as tailored, tailored to order, or tailored to measure, or in any other manner represented to have been tailor-made shall for the purposes of these regulations be deemed to have been sold, offered for sale, or described as tailor-made, as the case may be. 6. If any person sells, or agrees or offers to sell, or advertises for sale both tailor-made garments and other garments made to measure, he shall before selling or agreeing to sell any garment made to measure that is not tailor-made inform the purchaser that the garment is not tailor-made ; and in any proceedings for a breach of this regulation it shall lie on the seller to prove that he so informed the purchaser. 7. For the purposes of these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a.) " Tailor-made " means made to measure by hand to the extent and in accordance with the conditions prescribed in the Schedule hereto, and so far as the work is performed by employees, carried out in accordance with the provisions of the current awards or industrial agreements relating to the employment of shop tailors and shop tailoresses in the locality. For the purposes of regulation 6 hereof the expression " tailor-made " shall be deemed to include " hand-made." (5.) " Garment " means a man's or boy's coat, trousers, breeches, vest, or overcoat (other than an oilskin overcoat). SCHEDULE. The minimum amount of work to be performed by hand in a tailor-made garment and the special conditions for the making thereof are as set out hereunder : — Coats and Overcoats. Minimum Handwork. All canvases and lapels padded. Sleeve-linings felled top and bottom. All pockets tacked. Shoulders and sleeves sewn on. All edge stays. Collar padded and sewn on. All facings put on before shoulders are sewn (silk Sides, shoulders, and bottoms of linings felled. facings, &c.). Buttonholes and buttons. All body seams in body-fitting coats. All silk facings. Special Conditions. All coats made by a male coatmaker shall be pressed by him. A coat made by a tailoress may be pressed by a tailor or presser. Vests. Minimum Handwork. All pockets tacked. Buttonholes and buttons. Edge stays fastened. Back straps taeked. Forepart linings felled. Buckle sewn on. Neck felled. Special Condition. Vest shall be pressed off by a presser or tailor. Trousers and Breeches. Minimum Handwork. All pockets felled in and tacked. Seat-seam and leg-seam from crutch to knee. .Pocket stays. Band-lining and crutch-lining. Edge of button catch felled. Bottoms, buttons and buttonholes. Ply tack. Special Condition. Trousers and breeches shall be shrunk and pressed off by a presser or tailor.

Approximate Cost of Paper.—Preparation, not given ; printing (1,225 copies), £27 10s.

By Authority : W. A. G. Skinner, Government Printer, Wellington.—l92s.

Price 9d.~\