DUNEDIN LABOR MARKET
Mr Skerie''reports 'wages'-aS'follows Day labor, 7s, Bs, and 9s—at road, busb, and rail ; couples (for farms and stations), £7O to £BO ; shepherds, ,£6O; to .£65 ; ploughmen, £52 to £66; farm laborers, 35s and 20s ; milkers, Tos, : 12s; 15s, arid 20a ; station cooks, 20s and 25s ; country smiths and carpenters, 60s. to 60s per week ; grooms, gardeners, and coachmen, 20s, 255, and 30s, and found; hotel men, cooks, waiters, etc,, 20s, 30s, and 40s; hotel females j 16s;. 20/255, ; and 80s ;■ domestics fbr stations, farms; and town families; 10s, 12s to 15s ; laundresses and housekeepers, £4O to £52 and upwards ; boys and girls 5s to 10s ; shopmen, storemen, arid clerks, 80s to - 60s rabbiters, 'hy resrilts. /
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Patea Mail, 1 May 1882, Page 3
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118DUNEDIN LABOR MARKET Patea Mail, 1 May 1882, Page 3
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