Also a small bookbinding firm.
1. A quick folder; wages generally from 12s. to 16s., but fluctuations down to 5s. and up to 20s.
2. A quick sewer; very fluctuating, about 10s.
3. A collator at 3¼d. per hour; 12s., with fluctuations.
FIRM G.—Information obtained.—List of wages paid in 2nd week in each month, 1896, February, 1900, and four other weeks.
Wages of fourteen hands; six throughout the period.
Machine Ruling.—Four to nine hands, generally seven to nine. Time wages. Median moves slowly and steadily from 6s. to 7s. during 1896-99.
ALL DEPARTMENTS.