APPENDIX I. 500 PAGES, _. 166. (a) The normal daily hours prescribed by law should be nine, with overtime permissible up to three hours; (6) Payment for each hour of overtime should be required at not less than 33} per cent over the ordinary rates ; (¢) The minimum age of employment should be raised to 14 years; } (d) Enforcement should be entrusted to the factory inspection department .. .. .. Road Transport. 167. Tramway companies should endeavour to restrict working hours to 54 a week and so to arrange the hours of duty as to compel the workers to take one day’s rest in seven os “od vs 168. In granting licenses for motor buses, the authorities should consider whether, in particular cases, a limitation on hours is required, and if so, how it can be enforced .. - . Public Works. . 169. Public Works contracts should stipulate :— (a) the wages to be paid, and (5) a minimum age for employment not less than 12 years on 170. In regard to large construction works whether carried out departmentally or by contract :— (@) the Medical and Public Health Departments should be con: sulted beforehand ; {b) Rules should be framed as to housing, sanitation and medical treatment and facilities ; (¢) The Medical Department should be responsible for the workers’ health os “e oe oe Lee > 171. The possibilities of the wider application of departmental working should be considered by the Public Works Departments gene- rally .. .s CuapTER XII.—THE INCOME OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER. Regularity of Employment. 172. As far as possible the regular worker should be substituted for the irregular worker .. . oa . “sr is Minimum Wages. 173. Before minimum wage-fixing machinery can be set up: (a) the industries in which there is a strong presumption that the conditions warrant detailed investigation should be selected, (b) a survey of conditions in each such industry should be under- taken as the basis on which it should be decided whether the fixing of a minimum wage is desirable and practicable, (c) the trade should be demarcated and the composition and number of the Wage Boards should be decided, and (d) as much as possible of the information likely to be needed by the Wage Boards, if appointed, ghould be collected .. 174. When a decision has been reached as to whether the conditions in any case justify the setting up of machinery, particular attention must be given to the cost of enforcement and the policy of gradualness should not be lost sight of 18R.9 190 190 142 192 109 21 212-3 213-4