The Labor Market.
Mr Skene reports that work is now plentiful. There is a steady demand for road, rail, and bushsen, also men in all departments for farm and station. The building and many skilled trades in Dunedin are still sluggish. Female servants were never in better demand. Wages:—Couples, L 65 to L 8 0; day labor—bush, road, and rail, 8s and 9s; carpenters, 10s to 18s; masons, about 15s; shepherds, by the year, L6O to L7O; musterers, according to time; dairy hands, 15s to 25s per week; boys and girls, 6s to 10s; cooks, waiters, grooms, gardeners, &c, 25s to 60s; house girls, 10s to 15s; hotel do, 12s, 15s, 20s, and up to 30s; storemen and clerks, 30s to 60s; shearers are bent on having 20s per 100.
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Evening Star, Issue 4267, 30 October 1876, Page 3
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130The Labor Market. Evening Star, Issue 4267, 30 October 1876, Page 3
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