LABOUR REPORT.
R. M. Heighton and Co., 177 Queen-street, Auckland, report as follows:—We have had numbers of city and country orders for good men and women servants. Still we have many unemployed registered on our books waiting engagement, and we would impress upon employers that we can supply good and useful men and women servants of all kinds of labour, trades, and professions to their satisfaction. Women servants are more plentiful than they have been, as many arrive weekly from different* ports. Our engage* xnents during the week have been:—Farm hands, £1 por week and found * labourers, 6s to 8s per day; milkers, 15b; youths for drif ing, 15s to £1 j cooks 15s to 255; house* maids, 10s to 14s; parlourmaids, 10s to 12s; housekeepers, 15s to 255. We have several good hands registered on our books—Cooks, waiters, hotelmen, labourers, farm managers, farm hands, ploughmen, station hands, bushmen, milkers, married couples for farms or I buab, grooms, gardeners, etc., also .a few j women servants.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4793, 20 May 1884, Page 2
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166LABOUR REPORT. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4793, 20 May 1884, Page 2
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