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Industry or Workers Scope of Awards or Hours fixed '.Saturday affected. Agreements. by Court W ?f? , Remarks. J ' permitted. Fellmongers .. .. Northern, Canterbury, and Otago 40 and 44 Yes 40-hour week in Northern District. and Invercargill (Fifty - mile Radius) Felt-hatters .. .. Otago .. .. .. 40 Yes Fish-workers .. .. Northern and Wellington (Twenty- 44 Yes five-mile Radius) Flax-milling .. .. Wellington .. .. .. 44 Yes Leave is reserved to the parties to apply for variation in event of material rise in export price of flax. Flour-milling, &c. .. Northern and Canterbury .. 40 No Exceptions regarding Saturday work in case of power or machinery breakdown of not less than four hours during week. Last shift for week may finish at 8 a.m. Saturday. Fruit-preserving and vege- Northern .. .. .. 40 and 44 .. 1st November" to 30th April, 44-hour week, table-canning Monday to Saturday inclusive ; 1st May to 31st October, 40-hour week, Monday to Friday inclusive. Freezing industry .. New Zealand .. .. .. 44 Yes Fur-garment manufacturing Otago and Southland .. .. 40 No For a period of six months commencing the end of January, 1937, work may be done on Saturdays in workrooms attached to retail establishments. Fur dressers and dyers .. Otago and Southland .... 40 No Furniture trades .. New Zealand (except Marlborough) 40 No Casket-workers employed by undertakers may work on Saturdays. Flock, felt, and spring Northern .. .. .. 40 No workers Gas manufacturing and die- Wellington, Wanganui, and Christ- 40 and 44 Yes 44 hours in respect of yardmen and drivers tributing church Gas-works engaged in receiving, trimming, bunkering, or handling coal or ashes, and complaintsmen ; 40 hours in respect of other workmen, including maintenance and shiftmen. Glue-workers .. .. Canterbury .. .. .. 44 Yes A maximum of 8J hours a day; for shift workers and females, 40 hours a week. Gold-mining .. .. Blackwater, Big River, Reefton; 40 Yes Also applies to engineers, engine-drivers, Martha Gold-mining Co., Waihi; winders, firemen, and carpenters and joiners Golden Dawn Gold-mines, Ltd. in the employ of the Martha Gold-mining Co., Waihi. Gold-dredge and alluvial Westland and Otago and Southland 48 Yes .. gold-miners Grocery trades (retail) .. Northern, Wellington, and Can- 44 Yes terbury Hairdressers .. .. Wellington (Twenty-five-mile Ra- 44 Yes dius) Females, Wellington (Twenty - five - mile Radius) Males, North Canterbury and South Canterbury Males, South Canterbury Females, and Otago and Southland Hotel (licensed) .. New Zealand agreement validated 40 Yes by Statutes Amendment Act, 1936 Hotels (private) .. .. 44 Yes Iron-rolling mills .. Green Island .. .. .. 40 and 44 No Mill-hands: 44-hour week, not more than nine hours on any one day ; may work five hours without meal-interval. General labourers : 40-hour week ; not more than eight hours in any one day. Jam-making and fruit and S. Kirkpatrick and Co., Nelson.. 40 and 44 .. 1st November to 30th April, 44 hours, with vegetable preserving and right to work on Saturdays ; 1st May to canning 31st October, 40 hours, eliminating work on Saturdays. Jewellers, watchmakers, en- Northern, Wellington, Canterbury, 40 Yes gravers, and die-sinkers and Otago and Southland Journalists .. .. Auckland, Wellington, Christ- 40 Yes church, and Dunedin Journalists .. .. Timaru .. .. .. 40 Yes Labourers (builders', eon- Northern, Taranaki, Wellington, 40 No tractors', and general) Canterbury, and Otago, and including Christchurch Pumice Concrete-goods Makers, Canterbury Quarry-workers, Dunedin (Ten-mile Radius) Coal-yards Employees, Dunedin District Licensed Drainers, Dunedin (Nineteen-mile Radius) Local Bodies' Labourers, Dunedin City Council Electric - power and Lighting Department's Labourers (Waipori Falls Power-station, Ten-mile Radius), Otago Harbour Board Labourers, Otago Harbour Board Mole Qnarrymen and Labourers, and Northern | l ; 1 Local Bodies' Labourers I 1