THE PAINTERS.
To the Ed Tor of The Thames Guardian. • Sjr—Tlnngs must be looking up at Thames, at all events in the painting and house-decorating line, considering present prices. For a job of lettering for which I used to pay sixpence a letter I am now charged a shilling, and another job I want doing in writing and posting, &e, which I used' to pay about 10s not a month ago I hare now to pay 32s 6d. I don’t know that the necessaries of life are any dearer now on the Thames than they were a month ago, and if the former prices paid the painters, as I believe they did well, they must be making a mice thing of it now. They held a meeting lately, and I suppose this is the result of it; but another result will be that if they do not moderate their charges I shall get a man from Auckland, and I shall save something like £2 10s on a small job after paying the man’s passage, and I daresay some of my fellow townsmen who want painting jobs done will follow my example. At the present rate of charging a good hand at lettering, if he got constant work. would make L 5 or LG per day, which is not bad wages, even on a goldfield ; but it is more than I intend to pay. —I am, &c., A Tradesman Living in Brown-street.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 11, 19 October 1871, Page 3
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