WELLINGTON LABOUR MARKET.
France Brothers report wages for the past week as follows .--Married couples, L7O to L 100; day labour, 7s to 8s • carpenters, 1% 5 bricklayers and p|asterera, Us. to ,12s; painters and glaziers,^ to 10s/ plumbe»-s and gasbtteis 9s to 12s; bkck«miths, 9s to 10s; bakers, L 3 to L 3; dwymen, 4's to 50s; coachmen, 30s to 85s;grooms, 25s to 40s ; xtoremen, 35s to 50s ; garl deners, 7s to 8s per day; barmen and night porters, 25s to 40s; waiter*, 25s to 35s ; boofe, and kitchen men, -15s to !i'V 0 2n S ( T n h 25s to 60^ fe m»le» W* to 30s; housemaids, 12* to 15s heftel do 15s to 150s; general lervants! lOs^to 14s ;■ nurse girh^Sa to 7s; Ivirmaids, 2os to 30s ; boys, 5s to 12s 6d • milkmen, 205.t0 30s.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 46, 23 January 1884, Page 2
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137WELLINGTON LABOUR MARKET. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 46, 23 January 1884, Page 2
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