DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8312, 15 December 1906, Page 7

DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR.

The Journal of the Department of I Labour for December contains the 1 following in reference to Masterton and Greytown : Masterton. —The prosperity which has characterised this district for sometime past is Still maintained, and there is every prospect of its continuance. The Borough Council ( have at present a (fair number of men ' -engaged upon fcorough improve* naents. There -are a fair number of buildings at present ;in course of erection. Ttoe building trades have *beenbusy droning the month; good carpenters (especially being in. demand. In ; the engineering trades :good business has been maintained, repairs to fraction and other engines and the installation of oil-engines for shearing machines' constituting a large part of the work. Cycle engineers have also been fairly busy. The cement-pipe works and the variolas brickyards have teen busy. Flax-mills have been busy, the demand being good. The sawmills throughout the district have been busy during the month. It is reported that the output has been greater than for some time past, and very good time has been put in by the hands employed. In the dressmaking and tailoring trades some of the hands are working overtime. Reports indicate that the trade is perhaps a little better than last year. Furniture-manufacturers have been ■ fairly busy, and all tradesmen have "been fully employed. Saddle and j harness-making: Kormal. There is| very little variation in this trade, j Coachbuilders have been fairly busy., i there being an improvement upon; previous months. A good number! of orders in Uaand, and repairs! especially busy. Setail trades (gen-! - .eral): Satisfactory'business has 'beenj -""'• done in most Ranches, the g©od| i standard of jmesdous months being! ir fully maintained. Unskilled labour: :| work for competent men is plentiful.; Shearing is now in fall swing,: giving employment to all suigdiusi labour. Greytown.. UnskilM labour: ; Local labour if uly (employed. Shaep-i shearing has -commenced iGxnsameof the stations in 'the district aaad there is no dearth .rif work ifor ...those desiring it.