THE LABOUR MARKET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8287, 15 November 1906, Page 7

THE LABOUR MARKET.

Tfae following concerning Master•ton and Tinai is taken from the - Journal of the Department of Labour 'for November:— Tinui.—Building trades: Brisk; all local men have been busy, and several carpenters frum adjoining distriota have been busy erecting new wool-sheds and dwelling-bouaeß during the month. Retail trade (general): Good business is being done in all brarches., Miscellaneous: Blacksmiths and -saddlers are busy. Unskilled labour: All local men have been fully employed during 'the month. Several swaggers were •seen on the road during the •month, but most of them were old men who were unable to do hard •work; they kept going on from station to station, waiting till •shearing starts. The others, who were good men, got plenty of work ■at sorubfelling at 9s per day for eight hours. Masterton., Building trades: Carpenters, joiners, • brioklayers, painters and decorators have been well employed during the month. A fair amount of building is going on at present. Engineering trade: Good steady business is reported with all hands working fall ftime, with prospeots of a good season. Ooachouilding: Very fair. Quite a number of orders are in hand. All local tradesmen fully employed. Farniture trade: Normal. All tradesmen working full time. A new furniture factory has commenced operations. Dressmaking and millinery: Busy with usual spring-season orders. Tailoring: Good business re ported in most fa Btories. Some are now working overtime. Plumbing and gasfitting: All hands working full time. . ; " Cement pipe making*. Busy. Retail trades: Up to the present •good seasonable weather han been 'experienced and consequently business on the average has been gaod. Some shopkeepers complain that they expeoted to do more trade than they have actually done. Drapers have been busy, mercers fairly bnsy, butcders and grocers fairly busy. There are some complaints that money is slightly tighter than üßual. Unskilled labour: Work is fairly 'plentiful, and any one really wanting .employment can find it without much trouble. 1 Serub-cctters are now wanted for various contracts. EXCRUCIATING PAIN. Many a sufferer who has long endured the • excruciating pains of rheumatism, 'lumbago, sciatica, gout, and kindred diseases, is now completely cured -a free man. There's a reason. These diseases are . caused by accumulations in the blood of poisonous uric acid. Eheumo, the great rheumatic remedy, neutralises and drives out all uric acid, relieves the pain, removes suffering, and speedily effects a permanent cure. Your chemist or storekeeper sej - tit 12/6 and 4/6 a bottle.