PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.


December-May
June-November


 (Skilled
Males
500
750


Males
206


and Unskilled
 Females
 300
 450
 COMMERCIAL.
 Females
 115


 TABLE 2.
 Persons Unemployed.
Statistics are not available.


 TABLE 3.
 Employment Exchanges.
 No Employment Exchanges are maintained and so
available.


stati:.ics are not


 TABLE 4.
The Training Scheme in Agriculture was discontinued in 1953.

 TABLE 5.
Wage Rates for workers employed in the principal trades, industries
 and services.


 Industry Rates of Wages

Agricultural Worker Male: 980 per day
 Female: 750 .
Industrial Worker Male: $1.20
 Female: .96


 Workshop, etc.
Mechanic
Printer
Tailor
Shoemaker
 Bakery.
Tablehand
Ovenman
Foreman
 Construction.
Carpenter
Mason
Painter
 Transport.
Taxi-driver
Bus and Truck Driver
 Seamen.
 Industry

 Captain
 Mechanic
 Mate
 Cook
 Sailor
 Trade and Commerce:


$6.25-$10.00 er .week
$6.00-$10.00 ..
$5.50
$5.40

$4.00-$6.84 per week
$5.00-$9.00 .
$8.40-$8.80 .

$1.50r-$3.00 per day
$1.50-$3.00 ,,
$1.44-$2.16 .,

$20.00-$35.00 per month
$ 9.00-$11.50 per week

 Rates of Wages

$50.00-$60.00 per month
40.00- 50.00 .
30.00- 35.00 .,
25.00- 30.00 .,
20.00- 25.00 .,


Normal Hours of wort
 per day
 8
 8
 8

 8
 8
 8
 8



 19
 10
 8






 8
 8


 10
 10

Normal Hon'rs of work
 per d1y
 10
 10
 10
 10
 10


Shop Assistant-Kingstown.
 Male-$36.00 per month or $9.00 per week minimum
 Female- 30.00 per month or 7.50 per week minimum
 Rural Areas.
 Male-$34.00 per month or $8.50 per week mininumin
 Female-$28.00 per month or $7.00 per week minimum


6-7
6-7

6-7
6-7


Public and Other Services.
 (Salaries regraded with retrospective effect aw, from 1. 1. 52 in accordance
with the Hodgen's Report).


Workers).
 Total
 800
 1,200


Crop Time
Out-oi-Crop


Total
321