Wellington Labour Market
Messrs Edwards <fc M'Beath report for waxes last 'week as follows : — Married couples, £70 to LOO; carpenters, 10s ; bricklayers, 12s ; blacksmiths, 9s to 10s ; painters and glaziers, 10s ; plumbers and gasfitters, Os to 10s ; storemen, 42s to 60 ; drajracn, 42s to 50s ; coachmen, 30s to 35 ; crooms, 25s to 35s ; gardeners, 6s to 8s ; farm hands, 15s to 25s ; milkmen, 25s to 275 ; hotel men, 20s to 40s ; barmaids, 25s to 30.« ; waitresses \os to 20s ; cooks, 25s to 10s ; female do, 25s to 355 ; house-, maid 8, 12s to 20s ; general servants, 10s to 14s ; uursegirls and boys 7s to 15s. There is still a good demand for all classes of serrants.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 93, 17 October 1893, Page 2
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116Wellington Labour Market Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 93, 17 October 1893, Page 2
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