Wellington Labour Market
Messrs Edwards & M'Beath report for wage* last week as follows :— Married couples, £70 to £90 ; carpenters, 10s ; bricklayers. 12s; blacksmiths, 9s to 10s ; painters and glaziers, 10« ; plumbers and gas fitters, 9s to 10s; sUremen, 42« to 60s ; draymen, 42s to 50s ; conchtnen, 30i to 35s ; grooms, 25s to 35s ; gardeners, 65 to 8s ; farm hands, 16s to 25s ; milkmen, 25s to 27« ; hotel men, 20s to 40s ; barmaids, 25s to 30j; waitresses, 15s to 20a ; cooks. 25s to 40« ; female do, 25s to 355; housemaids, 12s to 20a ; general servants, 10s to 14s ; nursesirls nnd Iwvs, 7a to 15s. The market is quiet at present.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 105, 31 October 1893, Page 3
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109Wellington Labour Market Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 105, 31 October 1893, Page 3
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