COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE LABOR MARKET.
Mr. Henry Macintosh reports for the •week endins 17th April, as follows: Business in the labor market is steadily increasing, great numbers meeting with good engagements. For female servants the demand has been in excess of the supply. Good general servants for town and country are scarce, also good female cooks and nurse girls. For farm hands the demand is not feneral, the threshing and stacking not eing completed. Good ploughmen, married couples, shepherds, clerks, carpenters, masons, smiths, plasterers, &c., are plentiful. DUNEDIN. [by telegraph, f April 16. Wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 6d: fowls' wheat. 3a to 3s 3d; oats. Is 3d to 13 4d : barley, 4s to 4s 6d ; feed, 2s 6d to 3s ; potatoes. L2 15a to L 3; old hay, L 4; new oaten hay. L 3 5s ; chaff. L 3 53 ; straw, L2; bran. L.lloa ; pollard, L 4 ; Oopr, large sacks, LlO 10s to LlO 15s; oatmeal, L 1 0; pearl barley, t "-; onions, 6a ; new cheese, sd; bacon, rolled, lOd; do, sides, lid; hams, Is. Prime fat beef, 20s; mutton, 2d.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1248, 17 April 1880, Page 2
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