THE LABOUR MARKET.
Messrs France^ Jenkins, and France, report wages :•— Carpenters, 10s ; bricklayers and plasterers, lls to 12s ; painters and glaziers, 8s to 10s ; plumfc ers and gasfitters, 3s to Us ; quarrymen. 83 to 9a ; day labour, 8s ; blacks smiths, 8s to 10s ; bakers, L 2to L 3 ; draymen, L2to L 2 10s ; storemen, 35s to 50s ; gardeners 7s to 8s ; milkmen, 25 to 30s ; hotel men, barmen, and night porters, 25s to 40s ; waiters, boots, and kifcchenmeri, 20s to 30a : j cooks, 80s to 50s ; grooms, 253, to «85 ; *} housemaids, 12s to 16s;, general servants, 12a to 14s j nursemaids, 1 8s to 10s; laundresses, 4s per, day ; barmaids, 30s to 40s ; boys, 7s 6d to 15s. Female servants very scarce; . :
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 74, 20 February 1883, Page 2
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122THE LABOUR MARKET. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 74, 20 February 1883, Page 2
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