THE LABOUR MARKET IN NEW ZEALAND

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 72, 18 October 1884, Page 2

THE LABOUR MARKET IN NEW ZEALAND

While United States Consul Griffin was iv New York (says the Auckland Herald) lie received instructions' fromi the {Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to make sperial report on the condition of the labour market in New Zealand, the average cost of living, and the average rate of wages. Mr Griffin received the instructions on the Ist August and furnished his report on the 15th. He cabled to Sir Dillon Bell,, Ai?eut-General at London, and telegraphed to Mr Creighton, agent of the New Zealand Government at San Francisco, for the necessary statietics, which arrived in time for his report before its completion. The report contains 17 tables, showing the rates of wages to l/c higher end the cost of living lower iv New Zealand than in any colony of the Australasian group, anil indeed more favourable than the relative rates in the Western States of America. All the leading in lustrics in the rolony in which labour is employed are described, incloling uills, factories, and tnn>»er an I h"ax mills, the butter and cheese industries in Auckland, the soaj> and can lit? factories in Auckland and Dunedin, the woollen mill; in Dnndinand C.irisfce'inrch, an I the jewellery manufactory at Dun'•ilin.