Weeks Selected at Beginning and End of Data.

1896.1899.
Feb. 8th.July 11th.Nov. 14th.July 8th.Nov. 11th.Dec. 9th.
—Machine
Rulers		—Machine
Rulers		—Machine
Rulers		—Machine
Rulers		—Machine
Rulers		—Machine
Rulers
Above
24s.		004020200050
22s.
to 24s.		103040502030
20s.
to 22s.		101050100130120
18s.
to 20s.		40607060120110
16s.
to 18s.		505090005030
14s.
to 16s.		704090206080
12s.
to 14s.		3060609010080
10s.
to 12s.		10060201303020
8s.
to 10s.		107040328273
6s.
to 8s.		041502132617
4s.
to 6s.		010204000000
2s.
to 4s.		000000001000
(Apprentices excluded.)
Median
(without
rulers).		14s.
8d.		—15s.—16s.
6d.		—14s.—16s.
6d.		—18s.
2d.		—

Stamping.—Four, increasing to twelve hands, sometimes sixteen. The low wages are time (presumably learners); the rest piece. Time hands are excluded in the medians here, and in binding and despatch. Median is sometimes fluctuating, but not far from 12s. or 13s. for long.

s.d.s.d.
18961st half-year14 32nd half-year11 0
18971st half-year13 02nd half-year13 0
18981st half-year12 42nd half-year11 11
18991st half-year12 62nd half-year11 11
19001st half-year14 2(two months)

Binding room, including despatch, till middle of 1897, when numbers fell from forty to twenty. The despatch room, beginning with twenty, increased to thirty hands.

Binding—median varies from 11s. to 17s.

s.d.s.d.
18961st half-year14 12nd half-year16 1
18971st half-year14 82nd half-year15 4
18981st half-year15 02nd half-year14 4
18991st half-year14 22nd half-year13 11
19001st half-year14 2(two months)

Despatch—median steadier and rising.

s.d.s.d.
18971st half-year— — 2nd half-year15 0
18981st half-year17 62nd half-year18 11
18991st half-year19 42nd half-year20 9
19001st half-year16 3(two months)