DUNEDIN LABOUR MARKET.
Mr John Skene, of Skene's labour exchange,'Dunedin, reports as follows, under date 19th instant:—-, ■ Our labour market is in full, swing this week. Great numbers are getting away from the Quarantine Island, and are sent up to town .for engagement at the Immigration Barracks. The streets of the capital arc quite astir with them and fresh arrivals from Australia. Great numbers of the floating population are gathering in to Dunedin for the race '. week, which will occupy the minds of high and low for the time being. It would not be correct to report late home arrivals as being altogether up to the mark; to use mild terms, many of them are very helpless. They arehere now, however, and must face it; no good turning back. It is very difficult to pick out Ai. railway men among them. NVages do nor> fluctuate. Tradesmen of all kinds are busy and earning good wages. Some branches are a little slacker than others, but that is always expected at particular peripds of the year. Farm servants still get £s2to £55 per year and found; if married £6O, £65, £7O. Shepherds get £6O and upwards. Day labourers are getting Bs. per day, and often more. Female servants can nearly dictate their own terms. Young folks —boys and girls—get 65., Bs., and 10s. per week.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 228, 24 March 1874, Page 5
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223DUNEDIN LABOUR MARKET. Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 228, 24 March 1874, Page 5
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