executive of the union shall use their best endeavours to verify all
the entries contained in such book, and the union shall be answer-
able as for a breach of this award in case any entry therein shall in
any particular be wilfully false to the knowledge of the executive of
the union, or in case the executive of the union shall not have used
reasonable endeavours to verify the same. Such book shall be open
to every employer without fee or charge at all hours between
8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on every working-day except Saturday, and on
that day between the liours of 8 a.m. and noon. If the union fail
to keep the employment-book in manner provided by this clause,
then and in such case, and so long as such failure shall continue,
any employer may, if he so thinks fit, employ any person or persons,
whether a member of the union or not, to perform the work re-
quired to be performed, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions.
Notice by advertisement in the Press and Lyttelton Times news-
papers, published in the City of Christchurch, shall be given by the
union of the place where such employment-book is kept, and of any
change of such place.

11. General. — Should a union be formed during the currency of
this award, consisting of the workers engaged in all the industries
which together constitute the combined business of either of the
said employers, then the Court reserves power to such new union to
apply to the Court to vary the provisions of this award, and to make
such further or other award, or to bring the workers employed in
the slaughterhouses of the employers under the operation and
provisions of any award which may during the currency of this
award be made in respect of the combined business of either of the
employers, as to the Court may seem fit.

12. This award shall not, nor shall any of the conditions herein
set forth, apply to any employers in the Canterbury Industrial
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to this industrial dispute, but shall apply to all the fao.
above-named parties in this industrial district.

13. This award shall take effect on the 19th day of August, i^
and shall, subject to the provisions hereinbefore set forth, continue
in force until the 19th day of August, 1903.

In witness whereof the seal of the Court of Arbitration hath been
hereto affixed, and the President hath hereunto set his hand, this
14th day of August, 1901. Theo. Cooper, J., President.



(93.) CANTERBURY TANNERS AND FELLMONGERS— AWARD.
In the Court of Arbitration of New Zealand, Canterbury Industrial
District. — In the matter of **The Industrial Conciliation and
Arbitration Act, 1900 " ; and in the matter of an industrial dis-
pute between the Canterbury Tanners, Fellmongers, and Skin-
ners* Industrial Union of Workers (hereinafter called '* the
union**) and the following emplovers: — Bowron Bros.,
Walter Hill, Webster and Co., W. H. Clarke, W. Wood, T.
York, Butcher and Sprange, J. Beaumont, W. R. Travis,
Murgatroyd Bros., Thomas T. Robson, — Giifkins, William
Nicholls, the Canterbury Freezing Meat Company, the Christ-
church Meat Company, B. Bartram, — Butcher, T. McDonald,
D. McCaskill, Thomas Rooney, W. H. Alstead (hereinafter
called ** the employers").

The Court of Arbitration of New Zealand (hereinafter called
'^ the Court'*), having taken into consideration the matter of the
above- njentioned dispute, and having heard the union by its repre-
sentatives duly appointed, and the employers by their representa-
tives duly appointed, and such witnesses as were produced before it,
doth hereby order and award : That, as between the union and the
members thereof and the employers and each of them, the terms,
<;ondition8, and provisions set out in the schedule hereto and of
this award shall be binding upon the union and the members
thereof and upon the employers and each of them, and the said
terms shall be deemed to be and they are hereby incorporated in
and declare^ to form part of this award ; and, further, the union and
the members thereof and the employers and eetch of them shall re-
spectively do, observe, and perform every matter and thing by this
award and by the said terms, conditions, and provisions respec-
tively required to be done, observed, and performed, and shall not
do anything in contravention of this award or of the said terms, con-
ditions, and provisions, but shall in all respects abide by and
observe and perform the same. And the Court doth hereby further
award and declare that any breach of the said terms, conditions,
and provisions set out in the schedule hereto shall constitute a
breach of this award, and that the sum of £100 shall be the maxi-
mum penalty payable by any party or person in respect of any such
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effect on the 26th day of August, 1901, and shall continue in force
until the 26th day of August, 1903.

In witness whereof the seal of the Court of Arbitration hath
been hereunto put and affixed, and the President of the Court hatk
hereunto set his hand, this 15th day of August, 1901.

Theo. Cooper, J., President.



The Schedule hereinbefore referred to.

1. Hours, — A week's work shall consist of forty-eight hours, the
week to end at 12 noon on Saturday. The working-hours shall be
regulated between the hours of 7.30 a.m. and 6 p.m. on all days-
except Saturday, and between the hours of 7.30 a.m. and 12 noon
on Saturdays, according to the requirements of each business.
Every employer shall be entitled to the fullest control of his factory^
and to make such rules and regulations (not inconsistent with these
conditions) as he may deem necessary for the proper management of
his business.

2. Overtime. — The first two hours' overtime on each day after
the recognised hour for ceasing work shall be paid for at the rate of
time and a quarter, and after that at the rate of time and a half.

3. Holidays. — The following days shall be recognised as holi-
days : New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Birthday of
the reigning Sovereign, Labour Day, Show Day (if it shall not fall
upon the King's Birthday), Anniversary Day, Christmas Day, and
Boxing Day ; and all work done on these days shall be paid for at
the rate of time and a half, and any work done on Sundays double
time.

4.. Miniimim Wages. — That all competent journeymen beamsmen
shall be paid a minimum wage of £2 5s. per week. A " beams-^
man" is one who performs the work of unhaidng, scudding, and
fleshing hides.

5. Other Workers. — That all other workers in the tannery over
the age of twenty-one years shall be paid a minimum wage of lO^d.
per hour.

6. Apprentices to the Btcsiness of Journeymen Beanismen. — That
apprentices to the business of journeymen beamsmen may be employed
in the proportion of one to every three or fraction of three journey-
men who have been employed two- thirds full time during the pre-
vious six months. The wages of such apprentices to be : £1 per
week for the first year, £1 5s. per week for the second year, £1 lOs.
per week for the third and last year. The term of apprenticeship
to be for three years. All apprentices to be legally bound. AU
boys working in sheds at present, and not indentured, to be so
bound for the remainder of their time up to three years' full ser-
vice.

6a. Boys and Youths under Twenty-one Years. — The foUowing^
shall be the wages paid to boys and youths under twenty-one years,
employed in a tannery on work other than that in respect of which
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years, 128. 6d. per week ; from the age of sixteen to seventeen years,
15s. per week ; from the age of seventeen to eighteen years, 17s. 6d.
per week ; from the age of eighteen to nineteen years, £1 per week;
from the age of nineteen to twenty years, £1 5s. per week ; from the
age of twenty to twenty-one years, £1 lOs. per week.

7. That no youth be employed as an improver after having
served three years at the trade. That any case of hardship to an
apprentice — such as an employer retiring from business, dying, or
otherwise — by which he is unable to complete his full term, then
that such an apprentice may be bound to another employer to com-
plete his full term of three years' service.

8. Pelt'fleshers. — That pelt-fleshers receive as follows : Clean
fleshers, 7 id. per dozen, seventeen dozen a day limit ; medium
fleshers, 5d. per dozen, twenty-four dozen a day hmit ; lambs or
nobbling, 3d. per dozen, forty dozen a day limit ; parchment lining,
5d. ; linings, clean fleshes, 4d. per dozen ; cobbing. Is. per dozen.
That all workers not otherwise specified be paid according to their
experience and ability at the work which they may be. on. When two
eight- hour shifts are worked, the night shift shall receive 12^ per
cent, advance on ordinary sales. That preference be given to
members of any New Zealand Tanners, Fellmongers, and Skinners'
Union under equal competency clause. That in the case of any
worker who, from old age, infirmity, or incompetency, may be
unable to earn the minimum rate of wages, his wages shall be
fixed by a committee consisting of the employer and two members
of the union. In the event of this committee's failing to come to
an agreement, then the matter may be referred to the Chairman of
the Conciliation Board, whose decision shall be final.

9. Preference of Employment, — If and so long as the rules of the
union shall permit any person now employed in the trade in this
industrial district, and any person who may hereafter reside in this
industrial district, and who is a competent journeyman, to become
a member of such union upon payment of an entrance fee not
exceeding 5s., and of subsequent contributions, whether payable
weekly or not, not exceeding 6d. per week, upon a written applica-
tion of the person so desiring to join the union, without ballot or
election, then and in such case employers shall, when engaging a
workman, employ members of the union in preference to non-
members, provided that there are members of the union equally
qualified with non -members to perform the particular work required
to be done, and ready and willing to undertake it.

10. Until the rules of the union are, if necessary, altered in
accordance with the provisions of the last preceding clause, em-
ployers may employ any person wliether a member of the union or
not ; but no employer shall discriminate against members of the
union, and no employer shall, in the employment or dismissal of
any person or in the conduct of his business, do anything for the
purpose of injuring the union, whether directly or indirectly.

11. When members of the union and non-members are em-

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ployed together there shall be no distinction between members and
uon-members, and both shall work together in harmony, and shall
receive equal pay for equal work.

12. Limitation. — Nothing in these conditions shall apply to the
chrome department, which has been dealt with in the curriers*
award.

13. Wool- scourer 8, Wool-washers, dtc. — The conditions hitherto
existing in fellmongeries in all matters not expressly dealt with in
this award shall continue as at present until the further order of the
Court, the Court expressly reserving full power to make such award
at such time and in such manner during the currency of this award
in respect of all matters not dealt with in this award as it shall
think fit.

14. This award shall take effect on the 26th day of August, 1901,
and shall continue in force until the 26th day of August, 1903.

16. The foregoing paragraphs 1 to 14 inclusive embody the
terms, conditions, and provisions referred to in the foregoing award,
and are hereby declared to be incorporated in and to form part
thereof.

In witness whereof the seal of the Court of Arbitration hath
been hereto afl&xed, and the President of the Court hath hereunto
set his hand, this 15th day of August, 1901.

Theo. Cooper, J., President.



(99.) CANTERBURY CURRIERS. -AWARD.
In the Court of Arbitration of New Zealand, Canterbury Industrial
District. — In the matter of '* The Industrial Conciliation and
Arbitration Act, 1900" ; and in the matter of an industrial dis-
pute between the Canterbury Curriers' Industrial Union of
Workers (hereinafter called ** the union ") and the following
employers: Bowron Bros., Webster and Co., W. H. Travis,
Eskitt arid Payne (hereinafter called " the employers ").

The Court of Arbitration of New Zealand (hereinafter called
'' the Court "), having taken into consideration the matter of the
above-mentioned dispute, and having heard the union by its repre-
sentatives duly appointed, and having also heard such of the em-
ployers as were represented either in person or by their representa-
tives, and having also heard the witnesses called and examined
and cross-examined by and on behalf of the said parties respec-
tively, doth hereby order and award : That, as between the union
and the members thereof and the employers and each of them, the
terms, conditions, and provisions set out in the schedule hereto
and of this award shall be binding upon the union and upon every
member thereof and upon the employers and upon each and every
of them, and that the said terms, condicions, and provisions shall
be deemed to be and they are hereby incorporated in and declared
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member thereof and the employers and each and every of them
shall respectively do, observe, and perforin every matter and thing
by this award and by the said terms, conditions, and provisions
respectively required to be done, observed, and performed, and
shall not do anything in contravention of this award or of the said
terms, conditions, and provisions, but shall in all respects abide by
and observe and perform the same. And the Court doth hereby
further award, order, and declare that any breach of the said terms,
conditions, and provisions set out in the schedule hereto shall con-
siicute a breach of this award, and that the sum of £100 shall be
the maximum penalty payable by any party or person in respect
thereof. And the Court doth further order that this award shall
take effect from the 26th day of August, 1901, and shall continue
in force until the 26th day of August, 1903.

In witness whereof the seal of the Court of Arbitration hath
been hereto put and affixed, and the President of the Court hath
iit-reuiuo set his hand, this 15th day of August. 1901.

Theo. Cooper, J., President.



The Schedule hereinbefoke referred to.

1. Hours, — A week's work shall consist of forty-eight hours, the
week to end at 12 o'clock noon on Saturday. The working-hours
shall be regulated between the hours of 7.30 a.m. and 6 p.m. on all
days except Saturday, and between the hours of 7.30 a.m. and
12 noon on Saturdays, according to the requirements of efitch busi-
ness. Every employer shall be entitled to the fullest control of his
factory, and to make such rules and regulations (not inconsistent
with these conditions) as he may deem necessary for the proper
arrangement of his business.

2. Overtime. — The first two hours' overtime worked on each day
after the recognised hour for ceasing work shall be paid for at the
rate of time and a quarter, and after that at the rate of time and a
half.

3. Holidays. — The following days shall be recognised as holi-
days : New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Birthday of
the reigning Sovereign, Labour Day, Show Day (if it shall not fall
upon the King's Birthday), Anniversary Day, Christmas Day, and
Boxing Day ; and all work done on these days shall be paid for at
the rate of time and a half, and any work done on Sundays double
time.

4. Wages. — All competent journeymen curriers shall receive not
less than £2 10s. per week, which shall be the minimum rate, but
shall not be paid for those holidays on which they shall not work.

5. Tools, — That the employer shall supply all tools required, such
tools to remain the property of the employer, and shall be left on
the premises after employment ceases.

6. Machinery. — That in the working of all machinery used in con-
junction with the curriers* trade preference shall be given to curriers,
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with such machines and are equally compeient with other workmen
who are not curriers. Apprentices to the curriers' trade shall be
taught to use the machines.

7. Working on the Beam. — That no currier shall be kept more
than one week continuously on the beam.

8. Workmen recognised. — That only two classes of workers shall
be recognised (except as hereinafter stated) — namely, journeymen
curriers and apprentices. No youth shall be employed as an im-
prover after serving five years at the trade. In case of hardship to
an apprentice, such as an employer retiring from business, dying, or
otherwise being unable to continue business so as to enable the
apprentice to complete his full term, then such apprentice may be
bound again to another employer to complete the full term of five
years.

10. Nothing in these conditions shall apply to the chrome de-
partment : Provided always that only curriers shall be employed in
hand-shaving chrome.

11. « Nothing in this award or these conditions shall be construed
as declaring that hides and calf-skins dressed as chrome shall (ex-
cept in the operation of hand-shaving, if performed) be deemed to
be curriers' work.

12. Each shop shall be allowed an unskilled labourer to scour^
handle sumac, make dubbin and colour, oil and hang.

13. Apprentices. — That the number of apprentices be one to each
three or fraction of the first three journeymen, such journeymen to
be employed for nine months previously at two-thirds full time.
That all apprentices be indentured for five years. Their wages to
be : For the first year, Ss. per week ; for the second, 10s. per week ;
for the third, 15s. per week ; for the fourth, £1 6s. per week ; for
the fifth, £1 15s. per week.

14. Apprentices shall be legally indentured for a term of five
years. Any employer shall, before taking an apprentice, be en-
titled to take him for three mouths on probation, and if at the end
of such probation he becomes a bound apprentice such period of
three months shall be reckoned as a part of. the period of appren-
ticeship which, under this paragraph, he is to serve.

15. Preference of Employment. — If and so long as the rules of
the union shall permit any person now employed in the trade in
this industrial district, and any person who may hereafter reside in
this industrial district, and who is a competent journeyman, to
become a member of such union upon payment of an entrance fee
not exceeding 5s., and of subsequent contributions, whether payable
weekly or not, not exceeding 6d. per week, upon a written applica-
tion of the person so desiring to join the union, without ballot or
election, then and in such case employers shall, when engaging a
workman, employ members of the union in preference to non-
members, provide<i that there are members of the union equally
qualified with non-members to perform the particular work required
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16. Until the rules of the union are, if necessary, altered in
accordance with the provisions of the last precedins? clause, em-
ployers may employ any person whether a member of the union or
not ; but no employer shall discriminate against members of the
union, and no employer shall, in the employment or dismissal of any
person or in the conduct of his business, do anything for the purpose
of injuring the union, whether directly or indirectly.

17. When members of the union and non-members are employed
together there shall be no distinction between members and nog-
members, and both shall work together in harmony, and shall receive
equal pay for equal work.

18. Incompetent Workmen. — Any workman who considers him-
self not capable of earning the wage mentioned in paragraph 4
hereof may be paid such less wage as may from time to time be
agreed upon in writing between any employer and the secretary or
president of the union ; and, in default of such agreement within
twenty-four hours after such journeyman shall have applied in
writing to the secretary of the union stating his desire that such
wage shall be agreed upon, as shall be fixed in writing by the Chair-
man of the Conciliation Board for the industrial district upon the
application of such journeyman after twenty-four hours' notice in
writing to the secretary of the union, who shall, if desired by him,
be heard by such Chairman on such application. Any journeyman
whose wage shall have been so fixed may work and may be em-
ployed by any employer for such less wajj:e for the period of six
calendar months thereafter, and, after the expiration of the said
period of six calendar months, until fourteen days' notice in writing
shall have been given to him by the secretary of the union requiring
his wage to be again fixed in manner prescribed by this clause.

19. This award shall take effect on the 26th day of August,
1901, and shall continue in force until the 26th day of August, 1903.

20. The foregoing paragraphs 1 to 19 inclusive embody the
terms, conditions, and provisions referred to in the foregoing award,
and are hereby declared to be incorporated in and to form part
thereof.

In witness whereof the seal of the Court of Arbitration of New
Zealand hath been hereto affixed, and the President of the Court
hath hereunto set his hand, this 15th day of August, 4901.

Theo. Cooper, J., President.



(100.) CHRISTCHURCH HAIRDRESSERS.— AWARD.
In the Court of Arbitration of New Zealand, Canterbury Industrial
District.— In the matter of ** The Industrial Conciliation and
Arbitration Act, 1900" ; and in the matter of an industrial dis-
pute between the Hairdressers and Tobacconists' Assistants*
Union of Workmen (hereinafter called ** the union "^ and Mrs.
Armstrong, H. £. Oakey, Davis and Lamb, Eslick Bros.,
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Sycamore, C. Roland, T. Langley, S. K. Vernazoni, Prisstnall
Bros., H. Sutherland, F, Biggins, Walker and Co., H. C.
Wilkinson, F. Woodward, L. Munns, H. Lye, W. Brice and
Son, H. Leigh, E. Jerman, R. Perkins and Co., A. Menzies, A.
Gray, J. Linn, W. Williamson, A. Francis, all of Christchurch,.
hairdressers and tobacconists ; Walter Mann, G. Everett, and
A. Tindall, all of Sydenham, hairdressers and tobacconists ; and
J. White, of Woolston, hairdresser and tobacconist (hereinafter
• called " the employers ").

The Court of Arbitration of New Zealand (hereinafter called ** the
Court "), having taken into consideration the matter of the above-
mentioned dispute, and having heard the union by its representa-
tives duly appointed, and the employers by their representatives
duly appointed, and such witnesses as were produced before it^
doth hereby order and award : That, as between the union and the
members thereof and the employers and each of them, the terms,
conditions, and provisions sec out in the schedule hereto and of thi&
award shall be binding upon the union and the members thereof
and upon the employers and each of them, and the said terms shall
be deemed to be and they are hereby incorporated in and declared
to form part of this award ; and, further, the union and the
members thereof and the employers and each of them shall respec-
tively do, observe, and perform every matter and thing by this
award and by the said terms, conditions, and provisions respectively
required to be done, observed, and performed, and shall not da
anything in contravention of this award or of the said terms, con-
ditions, and provisions, but shall in all respects abide by and observe
and perfoim the same. And the Court doth hereby further award
and declare that any breach of the said terms, conditions, and pro-
visions set out in the schedule hereto shall constitute a breach
of this award, and that the sum of £100 shall be the maximum
penalty payable by any party or person in respect of any such
breach. And the Court doth further order that this award shall
take effect on the 19th day of August, 1901, and shall continue in