THE LABOR MARKET.
Mr Skene reports : — The supply this week in the labor market is very far short of the demand. A good many people are going about idle, but if such would get into the secret of adapting themselves to whatever labor is most in demand, brokeu weather might be almost the only excuse. Excellent wages are off ei ed for stone-breaking, but the work is objected to. Farm laborers, good ploughmen, and female servants of all kinds are all picked up, and get high figures. Gardeners aie busy, and apparently all well p-iid. Shepherds are asked for, and already show symptoms of being ocarce when their busy time comes on. Carpenters are always well employed Masons and bricklayers are hindered by the broken weather, and by the scarcity of material; tailors, shoemakers, and all indoor trades, seem busy, and there are no complaints by them of dulness. Wages do not vary much from the following : — Masons, bricklayers, and carpenters run about 14s per day all over; ploughmen, L 65, and married do., wife active, LBO and iipwavds — new arrivals go on at about L 52 and L 55, as trial wages ; females get L3O, L 35 and L4O ; housekeepers, cooks, and barmaids get L 52 and upwards ; smait girls and boys are not to be had ; day laborers get 8s ; stonebreakers, from 2s 8d to 4s per yard, according to gauge ; hotel servants are asked for.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 369, 1 July 1874, Page 4
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238THE LABOR MARKET. Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 369, 1 July 1874, Page 4
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