DUNEDIN LABOUR MARKET.
Mr John Skene, of the Dunodin Labour Exchange, reports as follows for the week ending May 7 : "There are great doings in the labour market this week, on account of the remarkable specimens of immigrants per Asia. Who sent them here ? who picked them ? are the constant questions asked. They are healthy and strong enough, but very few of them have got any of the necessary qualifications for pushing ahead for themselves. Disparaging remarks as to character have been going the rounds, but I find statements have been exaggerated. If the petty occurrences on board any of the regular emigrant ships were strictly noted, things would look ugly in many of them. However, good or bad, they are getting spread over the country, and we trust they will yet be good settlers and colonists. I have still to report a steady demand for most lines. Good ploughmen are veiy scarce, and old hands object to long engagements. Wages do not vary much. Farm hands still got L.55, L.60, and L.65 ; married L.70, and upwards. Carpenters, Masons, and Bricklayers still run from 12s. to 15s. per day ; Blacksmiths and Wheelwrights 12s. ; Shepherds, L.65. Day labourers get from 7s. to 10s. per day. Tailors and Shoemakers get high wages by piece work. No idlers."
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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 235, 12 May 1874, Page 6
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