H.—ll.

HOURS OF WORK, Etc. —continued.

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Industry or Workers Scope of Awards or Hours fixed Saturday affected. Agreements. by Court. permitted Remarks. Shipping industry—continued. Cooks and stewards .. New Zealand .. .. .. .. . . Hours of labour not to exceed eight hours per day. Masters and officers .. New Zealand .. .. .. .. ., 56 hours the maximum number of hours to be worked in any week. Ship-repair work .. New Zealand Carpenters and 44 Yes Joiners (on Ship Work); Northern, We.lington, Canterbury, and Otago and Southland .Furniture Trades (on Ship Work); Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough, and Westland Engineers, Moulders, Boiler-makers, Ironship and Bridge Builders; Wellington (Twelve-mile Radius) Shipwrights, B o a tbuilders, and Ships' Carpenters ; Wellington Electrical Workers ; Onehunga, New Plymouth, Patea, Wanganui, Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Grey mouth, and Lyttelton Dock Labourers Soap-workers .. .. Northern and Otago and Southland 40 Yes Soap and candle workers Wellington and Canterbury .. 40 and 44 Yes 40-hour week for soap, soda crystal, or candle factories ; 44-hour week for tallow, manure, casings, and by-products factories. Sports-goods manufacturing .. 40 No Workers in retail sports-goods shops, 44 hours (5J day week). Stone and monumental New Zealand .. .. .. 40 No masons Storemen and packers (fruit Northern, Taranaki, Wellington, 44 Yes and produce merchants) Canterbury, and Otago and Southland Storemen an d packers Northern, Taranaki, Wellington, 44 Yes With a proviso that in cases where the hours (general) Canterbury, and Otago and of work fixed by the Legislature or ordered Southland by the Court are less than 44 in respect of the industry or the house to which the storeman belongs, then such storeman or packer shall have the benefit of such reduced _ hours. .tailoring trade — Tailors .. .. Northern and Canterbury 40 Yes Tailors .. .. Otago and Southland .. .. 40 and 44 ,. First nine months of year, 40-hour week, no Saturday work; October, November, December, 44-hour week, Saturday work permitted. lailoresses .. .. Northern, Canterbury, and Otago 40 No and Southland Tally clerks .. . . Lyttelton and Timaru .. .. 40 No Tearooms and restaurants New Zealand . . .. .. 44 Yes Tanning industry .. Northern and Wellington (Twenty- 40 .. Saturday work not prohibited in Northern five-mile Radius) District. Tanning industry .. Canterbury and Otago .. .. 44 Yes Tile-layers . . .. Wellington .. .. .. 40 No Tinsmiths, coppersmiths, Northern, Wellington, Canterbury, 40 No and sheet-metal workers and Otago and Southland Tobacco-workers .. Wellington .. .. .. 40 No Tramway employees (cable) Dunedin .. .. .. 40 Yes 40 hours to be worked on five days of week. Tramway and omnibus em- New Plymouth, Wanganui, Wei- 40 Yes ployees lington, Invercargill, and Dunedin Tramway Officials Warehousemen .. Northern, Wellington, Canterbury, 42 Yes and Otago and Southland Woollen-mills, hosiery and Northern, Wellington, Canterbury, 40 No knitting factories and Otago and Southland Waterside workers .. New Zealand, agreement between 40 .. Ordinary hours of work shall be 8 a.m. to parties . noon, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday inclusive. The rate of pay for Saturday work shall be time and a quarter ' from 8 a.m. to noon. Wicker-workers .. Northern, Wellington, Canterbury, ,40 No and Ota,go and Southland Wool-scouring . . . . Wellington and Canterbury .. 44 Yes Wool, grain, hide, and Northern, Taranaki, Wellington, 44 Yes manure store employees Marlborough, Canterbury, and Otago and Southland