DUNEDIN LABOUR MARKET.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 250, 25 August 1874, Page 6

DUNEDIN LABOUR MARKET.

Mr John Skene, of the Dunedin Labour Exchange, reports as follows for the week ending August IT, 1874 All the pick and choice of our late arrivals are settled down at suitable work. Far too many are still on the hands of the Government, but they are very unsuitable for the country settlements of Otago. Some of these may some day make good colonists, but they are slow to move of their own accord, thinking it is the duty of the Government to think and act for them always. There is a decided scarcity of the genuine stamp of country folks at present. There is no doubt but that shepherds, ploughmen, and female servants will be short for the season before us, and good railway men cannot be got; there is a great deal of heavy work for such to get through, and safe to last for years, until the inland towns are connected by a regular network of railways. A good many Victorian and Tasmanian workmen are landing here, and they have no trouble in getting work. Engagements are making as follows :—Shepherds, ploughmen, and gardeners get from L.55 to L.65 and rations; if married, and wife helps, L.BO to L.90; day labourers, Bs., 95., and 10s. per day; masons, carpenters, and bricklayers, 12s. to 14a. per day; tailors and shoemakers, at piece work, from L.3 to L.4 per week. Nurse girls get from L.20, L3O, L.35, and L.40 ; cooks, barmaids, and housekeepers, from 20s. to 30s. per week. Smart lads and youngsters get from Bs. to 15s. per week and found. Too many neglect their scnooling for a small wage.

The inhabitants of the Cromwell district are sometimes puzzled to know which is the best and cheapest establishment to purchase their supplies of drapery and clothing at. They'should no longer remain in doubt on that score. If they will only pay one visit to W. Taiboys’ London House, they will discover for themselveg f ihat it is not only the cheapest but the best store at which to deal for these articles. Mr Talboys has made arrangements to import his stock direct from the Home markets, and the public can rest assured that everything will be sold by him at an advance only sufficient to repay the original cost, and return a fair percentage on the outlay. Every article in Mr Talboys’ establishment is marked in plain figures, from which no abatement is ever made. A fuller description of the stock will be found in advertisement in another column,—{Advt.]