DUNEDIN LABOUR MARKET.
Mr John Skene, of the Dunedin Labour Exchange, reports as follows for the week ending 21st inst.: — “ I have to report for tins week a steady and constant demand for all sorts of people. There is a decided scarcity among ploughmen, gardeners, and farm hands. Shepherds are mostly asked for this week for short jobs. Skilled labourers of all kinds are fully employed, and splendidly paid. Plenty men here say they regret the time they spent at college, instead of learning a trade. Good useful girls cannot be got; they seem to disappear the moment they land ; let their numbers be small or great. A good many “ Asia a” are in the Barracks still, and will be ; but do not condemn the whole shipment, as many who came by that ship are really excellent people. There are several Home ships past due ; they are anxiously looked for by many. Wages hold good at the following rates Farm servants, L.GO and L.GS, and found ; married do., wife to cook, L.75 to L.90. House girls average L.40 ; if good cooks, L.59. Masons, carpenters, and bricklayers average 14s. per day. Day labourers get Is. an hour. Miners from 9s. to 11s. per day. Gardeners by the week got 395. and found ; if by the year, L.G5.”
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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 237, 26 May 1874, Page 5
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