DUNEDIN LABOUR MARKET.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 259, 15 September 1874, Page 6

DUNEDIN LABOUR MARKET.

Mr John Skene, of the Dunedin Labour Exchange, reports as follows for the week ending September 9 : • The most fastidious can now get their pick and choice of servants. There is a large stock to pick and choose from,—and good, right sort of people, most of them, too. Let us forget our black shipments, and show our gratitude. A gooft r number of shepherds and ploughmen; also girls, are to hand from the north of Scotland. They will do good to themselves and their employers • no fear of them. sticking in Dunedin till doomsday. There is a very brisk demand for a right kind of people, arid it is safe to continue for a long time. Wages are not up in any case, but there is a decided inclination to classify according to quality and experience of individuals. As a rule, no new arrival is put on a level with old hands until he has undergone a fair trial. Erigageirfents are freely making as follows:—Good female helps, L.20, L.30, and L.35; superior do., L.52 and more. Ploughmen and shepherds, from L.52 to L.65 ; married do.,' L.75 to L.BO and L.90, —always with rations. The building trade is getting busy, at 125., 135., 145., and 15s. per day. , Tailors, bootmakers, cabinetmakers, tinsmiths, &c., are all well employed. Brickmakers are asked for. Boys and girls run from 6s. to lQs., per week ; day men, Bs., 95., and 10s. per, day. But far too many people are only at work now and again, becaase they were never used to it.