THE GLOBE. MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1880. THE UNEMPLOYED.
As will bo seen in our local column the single men working at the Weka Pass are being discharged, and but few are now left on the works. The married men are to be kept on only a short time longer. It is satisfactory to notice that the Government, well supplied no doubt with statistics as to the general condition of the labour market, are of opinion that the late employees at the Pass may now safely he left to shift for themselves. Agricultural labour is now being more called for, and, when the harvest arrives, no doubt there will be a cry once again that labor is scarce. In a small community like ours it is necessary to recognise that a very little upsets the labor market, that attacks of scarcity of work are severe no doubt, but generally short, and that, with a revival in any district, the effect is felt with marvellous rapidity over the whole country. In the north this has come home to the settlers very forcibly. The opening of the Te Aroha goldfields has almost drained the various districts of Auckland not only of surplus but of very much necessary labor, and the effect has been noticeable generally over the whole of the island.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2123, 13 December 1880, Page 2
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218THE GLOBE. MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1880. THE UNEMPLOYED. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2123, 13 December 1880, Page 2
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