APRIL 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1327

(d.) When an apprentice is discharged for cause, the employer
shall send notice of the discharge and the cause thereof to the
Inspector of Factories.
(e.) An employer taking an apprentice shall give notice thereof
and of the name of the apprentice to the Inspector of Factories
within one week after the expiration of the period of probation,
and an employer transferring an apprentice to another employer
shall similarly, within one week thereof, give notice of such transfer
to such Inspector.
(f.) The obligation of the apprentice to serve his employer
shall be deemed to be a duty enforceable under this award.
(g.) No deduction shall be made from the wages of an apprentice except for time lost through the worker’s illness or default,
or on account of the temporary closing of the factory for cleaning
or repairing the machinery, and the apprentice shall make up
such lost time before the following year of his apprenticeship shall
be deemed to commence, and the total period of his apprenticeship
shall be extended for a period equal to such lost time.
(h.) Existing arrangements with or relating to apprentices now
serving any employer may continue, provided that any employer
wishing such arrangements to continue shall forward the names of
his present apprentices to the Inspector of Factories within one
month after the filing of this award.
8. The rates of wages for apprentices shall be as follows: The
rate of 8s. per week for the first year; 12s. 6d. per week for the
second year; 17s. 6d. per week for the third year; £1 5s. per
week for the fourth year; and £1 15s. per week for the fifth year.

Under-rate Workers.

9. Any worker who may consider himself incapable of earning
   the minimum wage hereby prescribed for the class of work in which
   he may desire employment may work and be employed and paid
   at such less rate of wages as shall from time to time be agreed upon
   in writing between such worker and his employer or proposed employer and the secretary of the workers’ union. In default of
   such agreement being come to, then such wage shall be fixed in
   writing by the local Inspector of Factories or such other person
   as may be appointed by the Court, such decision to be in force
   for six months. Twenty-four hours’ notice of the application to
   such Inspector or person shall be given by such worker to the
   secretary of the union, and the secretary as well as the employer
   or proposed employer shall, if he so desire, be heard by such
   Inspector or person on such application.

Proportion of Under-rate Workers, Apprentices, and Improvers.

10. The proportion of under-rate workmen shall be not more
    than one to every three competent journeymen.
11. The proportion of apprentices and improvers employed by
    an employer shall not exceed one apprentice to two journeymen
    or fraction of the first two, and one improver to every two journeymen or fraction of the first two in the following branches of the
    trade, viz.: Body-makers, carriage-makers, coachsmiths, vicemen,
    wheeler, trimmers, and painters.
12. For the purpose of determining the proportion of apprentices to journeymen in taking any new apprentice, the calculation
    shall be based on a two-thirds full-time employment of journeymen
    for the previous twelve months.
13. Employers shall count as journeymen in determining the
    proportion of apprentices, improvers, and under-rate workers.
    Each employer to be registered with the Inspector of Factories in
    one branch of the trade. Not more than three employers to count
    in any one firm.
14. Each apprentice in a smithshop, after serving three years,
    shall be entitled to a fire; another apprentice may be taken on
    when each such apprentice goes to a fire. An apprentice may be
    taken on in other departments every fourth year of the previous
    apprentice’s time.

Overtime and Holidays.

15. All work beyond the time mentioned in clause 2 hereof shall
    be considered overtime, and shall be paid for at the following
    rates: Up to 8 p.m., time and a quarter; after 8 p.m. till midnight, time and a half; from midnight to 5.30 a.m., double time;
    from 5.30 a.m. to 7.30 a.m., time and a half.
16. For work done on Christmas Day, Good Friday, and Sundays, double time; New Year’s Day, 2nd January, Labour Day,
    Easter Monday, Boxing Day, reigning Sovereign’s birthday, time
    and a half.