LABOR MARKET.
Mr Skene reports that there is a good demand for ordinary laborers for country districts, also for ploughmen and station hands, but none will pass master now unless robust and accustomed to Colo* nial roughing. Couples are slack. The building trade is now feeling the usual winter quietness. Female servants are always welcome; shopmen and clerks very stiff to move. Wages : Couples, L 65 and L7O; ploughmen, L 52, L 55, L6O, and L 65; cattlemen, L 52 and L 5 5; shepherds, L6O and L 65 ; milkers and knockabouts, 15s and 20s; house girls, 10s, 12s, 15s, and 20s; hotel do, 15s, 20s, and up to 25s and 30s for cooks and housekeepers; carpenters, lls to 13s; stoaehands, 36s to 60s ; boys and girls, 6s to 10s; bakers, 80s to 50s, for ordinary hands.
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Evening Star, Issue 4128, 20 May 1876, Page 3
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137LABOR MARKET. Evening Star, Issue 4128, 20 May 1876, Page 3
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