Waikato Times Office, Wednesday. LABOUR REPORT.
Mrssks R. M. Hrighton and Co., 177, Quean-street, Auckland, report :—Business as usual during the past week. Men servants plentiful; women scarce. Numbers of tho unemployed are nnxious to satisfy the employers if they are reasonable in their demands. Employ >.rs nmst see the advisability of supplying their servants with good plain food. Luxuries are not required for manual labour, where health and strength are at hand. The old motto is : Supply your servants with good, healthy, plain and substantial food ; they can then work well without dotnanding high salaries. Engagements as follows :—Farm hands, 15s to 255; married couples, £52 to £80 and found ; cooks, 25s to 40s ; general hands and tradesmen, 5s to 10s per day ; milkers, 10s to 20s and found ; grooms and gardeners, 25* to 355; boys and youths, 5s to 17s 6d ; housekeepers, 15s ; laundresses, 10s; general servants, 8s to 14-s; housemaids, 9s to lls ; nursegirls, 6s to 9s. We have waiting for employment: Storomen, station manaSars, farm hands, carpenters and general ands.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1826, 20 March 1884, Page 2
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174Waikato Times Office, Wednesday. LABOUR REPORT. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1826, 20 March 1884, Page 2
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