Oct. 13] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2447

9. DIRTY WORK PAYMENTS

.01 A worker while employed on one or more of the following types of work shall be paid 2s. a day or part of a day :—

(a) Repairing or cleaning smoke-box doors, uptakes, and inside funnels.
(b) Work inside furnaces, back-ends, and through man-holes.
(c) Overhauling winches, grabs, traction engines, locomotives.
(d) Overhauling, repairing, and reconditioning chlorosulphonic smoke producing apparatus.
(e) Installing and overhauling storage batteries.
(f) Repairing damage done by fire whilst the dirt of the fire is still present.
(g) Repair work performed on board ship.
(h) Diesel repair work.
(i) Cleaning or painting galleys, pantries, heads, wash-places, or corking, including slushing and flattening.
(j) Burning off galvanizing.
(k) Burning out and cleaning pipes and fittings of an offensive nature.
(l) Handling or working with creosote or red lead.
(m) Work where the conditions are unhealthy, or more injurious to clothing or dirtier than the ordinary workshop conditions.

.02 For the purposes of subclause 9.01 (m) above, the following work shall be deemed to be unhealthy or more injurious to clothing or dirtier than the ordinary workshop conditions :—

(a) Repair work on catamarans.
(b) The slipping of boats or ships where the workers concerned are necessarily in contact with mud or water.
(c) Repair work with timber which has been in contact with crude or fuel oil, creosote, or tar.
(d) Handling old wires or dirty new wires.
(e) Work on staging under wharves.
(f) Repair work on used ice chests, meat safes, and compactums.
(g) Handling of oil fuel pipes.
(h) Work requiring the handling of, or coming into contact with, furnace or Diesel oil.
(i) Repair work on steam and electric cranes, hydraulic press or donkey boilers, oil fuel or foamite pumps, the large air compressor, machinery in blacksmith’s and boiler-shop.
(j) Dismantling or repairing dirty machinery or equipment.
(k) Installation of pipe lines under wharves.
(l) Such other dirty work as the officer in charge may decide.

.03 A worker while cleaning, scrubbing, chipping, or painting the outside of a ship’s hull shall be paid at a rate of not less than 4s. 2d. an hour on and from 1st April, 1949, and 4s. 3d. an hour on and from 1st June, 1949, but shall not be paid any of the Dirty Work payments prescribed herein.

.04 A worker while chipping preparatory to painting (other than on the outside of a ship’s hull) for one hour or more shall be paid at a rate of not less than 4s. an hour on and from 1st April, 1949, and 4s. 1d. an hour on and from 1st June, 1949.

.05 A worker while cleaning a fire-tube or water-tube boiler in any ship shall be paid at a rate of not less than 4s. 3d. an hour on and from 1st April, 1949, and 4s. 4d. an hour on and from 1st June, 1949, but shall not be paid any of the Dirty Work payments prescribed herein.

.06 Time worked by a worker while employed on repair work in the “danger-space” in gun turrets or in or on oil tanks, pipes, pumps, and the like, and necessarily in contact with crude, furnace or Diesel oil, or an abundance of hydraulic oil, shall be paid for at half ordinary time rate, in addition to the rate appropriate to the time.

.07 A worker while cleaning the insides of oil tanks and necessarily in contact with crude, furnace, or Diesel oil shall be paid not less than 5s. an hour.

.08 Time worked by a worker while employed on repair work in a bitumen painted tank involving contact with liquid or soft bitumen shall be paid for at half ordinary time rate in addition to the rate appropriate to the time.

10. MEAL ALLOWANCE

.01 Provided that he does not go home for a meal, a worker shall be paid a meal allowance of 2s. 6d. for each meal when required to work on after the following times :—

Mondays to Fridays inclusive .. .. { 5.30 p.m.
{ 9.45 p.m.
Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays prescribed in { 12 noon.
clause 5 hereof .. .. { 5.30 p.m.
{ 9.45 p.m.

.02 A worker required to work all night and continue working into the next day shall be paid for normal meals occurring during such period of continuous work.

.03 At the expiration of each four and one-quarter hours continuous overtime, a worker shall be paid meal allowance, or on request be provided with a hot meal.