MAR. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 915

(b.) Whenever occasion arises for so fixing a worker’s wage, it shall be fixed for such period, not exceeding six months, as such Inspector or other person shall determine, and after the expiration of the said period, until fourteen days’ notice shall have been given to such worker by the secretary of the union requiring him to have his wage again fixed in manner prescribed by this clause; provided that in the case of any person whose wage is so fixed by reason of old age or permanent disability it may be fixed for such longer period as such Inspector or other person shall think fit.

(c.) Notwithstanding the foregoing, it shall be competent for a worker to agree in writing with the president or secretary of the union upon such wage without having the same so fixed.

(d.) It shall be the duty of the union to give notice to the Inspector of Factories of every agreement made with a worker pursuant hereto.

(e.) It shall be the duty of an employer before employing a worker at such lower wage to examine the permit or agreement by which such wage is so fixed.

Payment of Wages.

7. Wages shall be paid weekly, and in money, wherever the work is being performed, and in the employer’s time.

Sanitary Arrangements.

8. Employers shall provide necessary sanitary conveniences for their workers.

Sheds.

9. Employers shall, whenever it is reasonably practicable, erect suitable sheds for the use of their workers.

General Conditions.

10. All stonework required for any building, with the exception of light coring and templates, shall be worked and fixed by stonemasons employed by the builder, or in the event of the builder subletting the work the subcontractor must supply all material, labour, and plant necessary for working, fixing, and finishing the work.

11. No stonework shall be deemed light coring which is more than 9½ in. in height. Stonework beyond that dimension shall be fixed by duly qualified stonemasons, provided such are available.

12. Cleaning-down, pointing joints, or anything connected with cut stonework which requires the use of a stonemason’s tools shall be done by masons only.

Country Work.

13. “Country work” means work performed by a journeyman or apprentice which necessitates his lodging elsewhere than at his usual place of abode.

14. Any workman or apprentice employed upon country work shall be conveyed by his employer to and from such work free of charge, or his travelling-expenses going to and returning from such work shall be paid by his employer, but once only during the continuance of the work, if such work is continuous and the workman or apprentice is not in the meantime recalled by his employer. The time occupied in travelling shall be paid for at the ordinary rates, but no man shall be paid more than an ordinary day’s wage for any day occupied by him in travelling, although the hours occupied may exceed eight, unless he is upon the same day occupied in working for his employer. When the distance requires workmen employed upon country work to sleep away from their homes, an additional allowance of 15 per cent. upon the amount of their wages for the time so occupied shall be paid to them, and their employer shall also provide them with tents or other suitable sleeping-accommodation.

Suburban Work.

15. When the work to be performed is distant more than a mile and a half from the corner of Karangahape Road and Symonds Street, in the City of Auckland, the workman shall be paid at the ordinary rate for the time reasonably occupied in walking to and from such work; provided he shall not be paid for the time occupied in walking the first mile and a half from the corner of Karangahape Road and Symonds Street. But in the event of any workman residing within the