Commercial.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 384, 22 August 1874, Page 2

Commercial.

SKEKE'S LABOR EXCHANGE. Dttkedin, August 20.

There is nothing very pleasant to report about the labor market this week. There are far too many useless people lounging about Dunedin, growling and complnining of their mise7'able fate in not gel ting work to suit at a moment's notice. In truth, the demand foi good useful people cannot be satisfied, as the right sort are all picked up. Ploughmen and shej)tterds are, for the time being, extinct. Many of the new arrivals have the making of good colonists, but they they must drop their old notions first, and get out of leading strings. The next ship with farm people and servant girls is nuxiouely looked for. Wagi?s are firm, and the following figures are freely gi\en = — Eipprinnr-pri nlouglunen, £55, £60, and £05 ; married do., £ro, ;ttv>, „i ri pee . R i lf ,v>in»vrU and gardeners about the same ;^r3rp.W^-j.-all capes) ; smart girls get £30, £35, and £40 ; cooks, barmaids, and housekeepers, 20s to 303 per week ; nurse girl 3, 6s, 7s, and Bs, per week. The building trade is wakening up again. Carpenters, from 12s to 14" per day ; masons, 14s, 15s, and 16s; bricklayers the 'same. Indoor trades are busy. Day laborers get Bs, 9s, and 10s. New arrivals get different rates in all cases. Smart boys are asked for ; - couuter hands, clerks, and engineers are rather too plentiful ; but as the winter is about over, trade is reviving and the demand wakening up.