SKENE'S LABOR EXCHANGE.
Dtjnedin, 23rd April. There is only one department of .the labor market about which there is any trouble or discontent, viz., the female department, owing to the scarcity, Mistresses are very anxious to get first-rate servants, and the girls are very fastidious. as to who they serve. . Many families are adopting the system of employing men cooks. The idea seems to work well. Tradesmen and stilled labor are very active, and everything in the labor market denotes prosperity. It is to be hoped that the working man will look out for bad times, by laying by a tidy Bum in some snug corner. Engagements have been made of late at the annexed rates; — General female servants, £30, £35, £40, and up to £52 ; nurse girls, &c., Bs. to 10s. per week ; smart boys and girls, 75., Bs., 95., and 10s. per week ; farm servants, £5^5 to £65 ; married do., £65 ta £70, and more ; shepherds, £60 to £65 y gardeners, £52 to £65 ; masons, 14s. and 15s. per day ; compositors, 12s. to 14s. per day ; bricklayers, 13s. to 14s. per day. Tailors, shoemakers, and Beveral other trades are paid by piecework. Day laborers, Is. per hour is the rule.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TT18740425.2.3.1
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 350, 25 April 1874, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
202SKENE'S LABOR EXCHANGE. Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 350, 25 April 1874, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in