Commercial.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 370, 4 July 1874, Page 2

Commercial.

SKENE'S LABOR EXCHANG-E.

Dunediit, July lat. Affairs iv the labor market aro very active at present — plenty of work and fair wages. Ab üßualj a good many say they cannot get woik; but the fact is there is no genuine excuse for any healthy, willing man to be idle. True, many are forced to put their hands to very different work to what they ever expected to do ; but no man or woman will be truly colonised until they rough it a bit. Stone breaking is perhaps not very dignified, but the operator knows he is making often as much as the minister of his native parish in the old country. Masons and bricklayers have to bear with broken weather at present. Carpenters and their employers are having a tottle tift about wages. There is not much danger of lasting bad feeling being engendered. Carpenters should lay by \ for a rainy day. Wages may be rated at : for good general house girls, £35 to £45 ; cooks, housekeepers, and barmaids, £4.5 to £52, and more ; men at the building trade, masons, oapenters, and bricklayers, say 14s. per day ; farm servants, £60 to £65 ; if married, £70 to £90 ; shepherds, £60 and £65 ; gardners, £70 ; day laborers, Bs. and 95. ; smart lads, 15s. per week ; boys and girls, 6s. to 10s. per week.