6—Paper-bag Making.

Rate paid.—6d. per thousand.

Worker's Outlay for Material.—Finds paste and alum.

Average Working-day.—Twelve hours.

Average Earnings.—4s. 6d. per week.

Remarks.—The paper is square and has to be cut to shape, each separately, then folded; then pasted; then packed in half-gross bundles. A great deal of time is lost in fetching and returning the work. A good deal of this work is now done by machinery.

In New Zealand this work is done by machinery and the average wages paid to women over twenty years of age, ranges from 13s. 64 to £1 per week of forty-five hours.