Commercial.
Tho amount of revenue received at the Custom. uouso on (roods cleared for consumption this dry was L 1,592 19a lid. .THE LABOR MARKET. The labor market is still quiet, but the demand is increasing with the improved weather. Countrytrained people are constantly asked for. Female servants were never so scarce. Town and commercial life is gradually wakening up, but far too many men hang about Dunedin, Tho building trade is fairly employed. Hotel business is more active. .Wages House and hotel females, 10s, 12s, 15s, to 30s per week. Dairy and useful lads, 15s and 20s per week; ploughmen, L 52 to LOS per year; shepherds, L7O per year, or -10s and 50s for short time ; day laborers, 8a and 9s per day ; cooks, 20s, 255, and 50s per week; carpenters, 12s and 13s per week ; storemen, 30s to 50s per week ; sheep shearers, 20s per 100; boys and girls, Cs to 10s per week, &c.
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Evening Star, Issue 3988, 6 December 1875, Page 3
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158Commercial. Evening Star, Issue 3988, 6 December 1875, Page 3
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