DUNEDIN LABOUR MARKET.
Mr John Skene, of the Dunedin Labour, Exchange, reports as follows for the week ending the sth of August : " It is to be devoutly prayed for that no more home ships show up until all the late enormous arrivals are cleared off. Dunedin is one sea of new faces, and old identities are fast loosing their identity. Monster meetings of new arrivals, protesting to Government against their bad treatment, are the order of the day. Well, there is no dodging the fact that there is a most stupid blunder committed by the Emigration Department in sending so many unsuitable people here at any time, more especially in mid-winter. But, admitting that the Emigrants have, in their case, good cause to growl, still the prominent fact remains, that there is plenty of room for good hardy pushing people, if sent in numbers to suit the steady demand of the country. If up-country well-to-do settlers would build snug little cottages for married folks, they would confer a great boon upon many a new chum, and get a certain and good return for their little outlay. There are engagements freely making every day, although wages are more irregular on account of the different qualities ; still there is no difference to quote from last week."
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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 248, 11 August 1874, Page 6
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