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Victoria, with hours and with all the other conditions of the wage 

 contract. 



The Trade Boards Act is now to be extended to the following 

 trades, the rates of wages in sections of which are exceptionally 

 low : shirt-making, sugar confectionery — fruit preserving, jam, 

 pickles, sauces etc., metal hollow-ware, linen embroidery, 

 calendering and machine-ironing in steam laundries. 



