LABOUR REPORT.
E.M. IIEiOHTONand Co., Labour Agents, Auckland, report for the week:—The labour market has improved since our last report; men find readier engagements, and all hands we hope will soon be fully employed at good wages. During the week we have had an addition to the number of our bread winners by the Zealandia. They are of the right sortji able and willing to work. Our engagements for the week are greatly in excess of the previous week. Current wages for draymen, road, rail, bush, drivers, &c, 6 to 9s per day. Tradesmen fairly employed except carpenters; .wages at last quotations. Hotelmen,—a number, waiting engagements, wages low. Ploughmen, 20s; milkers, general farm hands, and grooms, 15 to 20s; hoys and youths for couutry, sto 10s (scarce) per week and found. Female Servants are in request and command ready engagements and good wages. Cooks, and barmaids, 20 to 30s ; laundresses, waitresses, housemaids, and general servants, 10 to 15s; nurse-girls, 5 to 10s per week. Good country servants able to cook and milk, £26 to £35; housekeepers, £30 to £50 per annum.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4586, 15 September 1883, Page 2
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181LABOUR REPORT. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4586, 15 September 1883, Page 2
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