SYDNEY LABOR MARKET.
In the Sydney Morning Herald of Saturday, July 29, there were two columns and ahalf of advertisements from employers in request of persons to fill situations, and a little more than half a column of advertisements from persons seeking engagements. This is some indication of tho condition of the labour market. Judging from Saturday's advertisements, men and women are wanted in almost all kinds of occupations, and in some cases so scarce do applicants for employment appear, that very high wages are offered. Plasterers seem to be so much in demand that 13s a day would appear to have become a rate of payment too low to tempt men to engage, and one advertiser who required six plasterers to do some work at Coogee Bay, offered 14s a day and all expenses. In other trades the demand for men seems to be very brisk • and for ordinary laboring men, such as are wanted on railway extensions, the requirements of contractors appear to be far beyond what the condition ot' the labor market is likely to satisfy. On the Great Northern Railway extension from Uralla to Glen Innes 300 pick and shovel men, 250 sleeper getters, and splitters and fencers are required ; and on the Great Western Railway extension from Nyngan to Bourke no fewer than 1000 men are wanted for ballast-getting, &c.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3480, 1 September 1882, Page 4
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