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engagements legally subsisting between employers and non-unionists at the date of this award, and any employer may continue to employ any journeyman then legally employed by him as heretofore, although such journeyman may not be a member of the union. This clause shall apply to all places within ten miles of a place where a book is kept in terms of the next clause.

25. The union shall keep at the office of the Inspector of Factories, or such other place at the Court may by order appoint, in the City of Auckland, and also at some convenient place within one mile of the chief post-office at each other town where preference is intended to be claimed, a book to be called the “Employment-book,” wherein shall be entered the names and exact addresses of all members of the union for the time being out of employment in the city or town in which such book is kept, with a description of the branch of the trade in which each member claims to be proficient, and the names, addresses, and occupations of every employer by whom such member shall have been employed during the preceding one year. Immediately upon such member obtaining employment a note thereof shall be entered in such book. The executive of the union shall use their best endeavours to verify all the entries contained in such book, and the union shall be answerable as for a breach of this award in case any entry therein shall in any particular be wilfully false to the knowledge of any officer 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 Auckland during office hours if kept at the office of the Inspector of Factories, and otherwise and at other localities at all hours between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on every working-day except Saturday, and on that day between the hours of 8 a.m. and noon. If the union shall fail to keep such Employment-book in the manner prescribed by this clause, then and in such case, and so long as such failure shall continue, any employer may, if he shall so think fit, employ any person or persons, whether a member of the union or not, to perform the particular work required to be done, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions. Notice by advertisement in the New Zealand Herald and Auckland Star newspapers, published in Auckland, and in a local newspaper circulating at any other town, shall be given by the union of the respective places where such Employment-book is kept, and of any change in such place. The preference hereinbefore given shall not apply to employers at any other town unless a branch of the union has been established and is maintained there.

Term of Engagement.

26. It shall be necessary for an employer to give a journeyman one hour’s notice prior to his dismissal, and it shall be necessary for a journeyman to give his employer one hour’s notice that he is about to leave his employment.

Monumental Masons’ Work.

27. The provisions of this award shall not apply to monumental masons’ work, but any monumental mason employing masons upon building work other than monumental work shall come under the provisions of this award.

Scope of Award.

28. This award shall not apply to any employers in the Poverty Bay District, which lies outside a line drawn from the East Cape along the main range to the boundary of the Wellington Industrial District.

Term of Award.

29. Three years.

T. HARLE GILES.