SKENE'S LABOR EXCHANGE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 338, 14 March 1874, Page 2

SKENE'S LABOR EXCHANGE.

Favored by Mr. Skene, we furnish our readers with a report from the Central Agency : — Dunedin, March 12, 1874. The Dunedin labor market is at present very active. There was a feeling abroad for some time that the large number of new arrivals would glut the market; but the position of affairs is quite the reverse. From everyday experience, it is quite impossible to supply the demand in many employments. A good many growlers go about saying they cannot get work ; but the bare fact stares them in the face, viz., that any man willing to ■work can get his Bs. per day, and that for many a day to come. The few female servants who arrive are picked up immediately for good places and high wages. There are very few of the good old ploughmen stamp coming to hand j such are quickly secured. Artizans and tradesmen are fully employed. Clerks and no-particular-employment men are, as they ever will be ? difficult to r>l««>oUnder are a few of tbe present quotations :—: — G-ood house girls, £35 to £45 per year and found ; cooks and barmaids, £45 to £52 ; farm servants (single), £52 to £55 and found; if married, £60, £65. and £70. Shepherds are nearly settled down for the season ; -vTOges7-£60,-£65, and upwards. Day laborers and navvies get Is. - per hour, and in many cases more. Gardeners and dairy handß are pretty slack ; no fixed rate.