THE LABOR MARKET.
,i . -To the Editor. Sib,—Will you kindly oblige me by inserting th«se few lines.. See’ng!.an 1 advertisement,ip the 'Times’ of March the 20th for an assistant storeman, I made.aftApulicatian at 5.30 p m., and was ver/ much am prised to see twenty-five men applying for the shufttien, the wages being Ll per week. ata’advertised for every day in London, i the wages there being nearly about the sam& as here,:hut there are seldom more than four to six applicants for the berth. _ 1 don’t know what the Colony is coming to with still agoing; on. -Letters are sometimes inserted in the English papers praißingqp the Colony, a.d the amount of wages men receive here, thus enticing people to break up their homes, which they seldom £t bo comfortable' in New Zealand.—l am, i., •' ' ■ ' • ■ . . , A SoPPEBpB. Dunedin, March 22.
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Evening Star, Issue 4078, 22 March 1876, Page 4
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141THE LABOR MARKET. Evening Star, Issue 4078, 22 March 1876, Page 4
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