COMMERCIAL Waikato Times Office, Wednesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1758, 11 October 1883, Page 2

COMMERCIAL Waikato Times Office, Wednesday.

. LABOUR RETORT. Msasßii R. M. Hkighton and Co. labour ajents, 177 Queen-street, reports :—Business has been fairly active this week ; still a number of men are waiting engagements ; contractors fcro complaining of the want of man ; we can supply them if they give us a reasonable time to meet thoir wants, but employers expect labour office? to have servants like goods in a warehouse always ready waiting their selection. We trust in future that they will be more reasonable in thoir demands, and give us a little time, and wo can meet all their requirements. Our engagements have not boen so numerous thiß wook. Wages firm ; little alteration to note from last week. The question of female servants iH always a worthy point in every country, and more especially in the colonies, where there seems to bo a decided objection on the part of the girls to undertake domestic work, preferring the starvation wages and undermining health work of work shops and factories to the more remunerative and healthful work of ordinary household duties. Our educational system crams our girls full of Greek .and Latin. We wish the system taught thorn to cook, bake, wash, and milk, then we would not have so much trouble in providing mistresses with the class of people they requite. No alteration in wages from las I week.