THE LABOUR MARKET.
Messrs France^ Jenkins, and France, report wages :— Uarpanters, lOs^ bricklayers- and plasterers, lls W 12s ; painters, and glaziers, 8s to 10s jiphwa.br era and gasfitters, 8s to lls ; quarrymen. 8s to 9s ; -lay labour, 8s j black* smiths, 8s to 10a ; bakers, L 2 tpLß^ draymen, L 2 to L 2 10s; storemen, 3,5s to 50s ; gardeners 7s to 8s; ;, milkmen, 25 to ; 30s ; hotelmen, barmen, and night, porters, 25s to 40s ; waiters, boots, and kitchenmen, ; 20s, W. 3X|*j cooks, 30s to 50s ; grooms, 255. to $53f housemuids, 12s to 16s; general ser- * vants, 12s to 14s j nursemaids, 8s; to^ 10s ; laundresses, 4s : per day ; bar<r maids, 303 to 40s ; boys,. 7s 6d to 15s. Female servants very scarce.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 66, 10 February 1883, Page 2
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123THE LABOUR MARKET. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 66, 10 February 1883, Page 2
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