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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

17. Casual holidays, whether taken by the trade generally or by individuals, without the consent of the employer, shall be made up before overtime is earned. Any time in any one week lost through the default of the worker shall be deducted from any overtime earned during that week.

Helpers.

18. The work that helpers shall not do to be as follows: Paint-shop—No helper shall in a paintshop line, varnish, put on varnish-colour, or any colour excepting first coat and filling up. Wood-shop—No helpers shall use in a woodshop edge tools in shaping or working wood, or sandpapering or cleaning up new work, nor shall he bore on any ironwork excepting tires. Smithshop—No helper shall in a smithshop forge any kind of ironwork. Trimming-shop—No helper shall in a trimming-shop machine cut-out work, or stuff work, or tack in new work.

19. The minimum wage of helpers shall be as follows: From the age of fifteen to sixteen years, at the rate of 10s. per week; from sixteen to seventeen years, 15s. per week; from seventeen to eighteen years, 17s. 6d. per week; from eighteen to nineteen years, £1 per week; from nineteen to twenty years, £1 5s. per week; from twenty to twenty-one years, £1 10s. per week; over twenty-one years, 10½d. per hour.

20. The number of helpers allowed to each department shall be as follows: One to each smith as striker (the apprentice to act as striker until permanently put to a fire), one to each viceman, one to smithshop as driller; one each to the bodymakers, carriage-makers, wheelers, trimmers, and painters’ departments.

21. Extra helpers above the number specified may be taken on at not less than 1s. per hour.

General.

22. No piecework shall be allowed in any branch of the trade.

23. No employee being allowed full time shall do any work pertaining to the trade for any other than his present employer.

Preference.

24. (a.) If any employer shall hereafter engage any worker who shall not be a member of the union, and who within one week after his engagement shall not become and remain a member of the union, the employer shall dismiss such worker from his service if requested to do so by the union, provided there is then a member of the union equally qualified to perform the particular work required to be done, and ready and willing to undertake the same.

(b.) Whenever an employer shall employ any worker who is not a member of the union he shall, within forty-eight hours thereafter, give notice in writing of such employment to the secretary of the union.

(c.) The provisions of the foregoing clause shall operate if and only so long as the rules of the union shall permit any person of good character and sober habits to become a member of the union upon payment of an entrance fee not exceeding 5s., upon a written or verbal application, without ballot or other election, and to continue a member upon payment of subsequent contributions not exceeding 6d. per week.

Exemptions.

25. (a.) The provisions of clause 24 of this award shall not apply to the Auckland Electric Tramways Company (Limited).

(b.) The said company shall not be bound to pay overtime rates in respect to any work done in connection with repairs to tram-cars or working plant where such repairs have been rendered necessary by incidental breakdown, and all such work may be paid for at ordinary rates.

Scope of Award.

26. This award binds the parties hereto, and all persons hereafter commencing business as coachbuilders within the limits of the Northern Industrial District, exclusive of the Poverty Bay portion thereof, which is defined as all that portion which lies on the south-east side of a line starting at the East Cape and carried along the dividing ranges until it meets the boundary between the Northern Industrial District and the Wellington Industrial District.

Term of Award.

27. This award shall come into force on (date to be fixed), and shall continue in force until the 31st day of December, 1915.

T. HARLE GILES.