THE LABOUR MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 305, 22 December 1894, Page 8

THE LABOUR MARKET.

STATE OF TIRADE IN AUCKLAND.

(BT TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Wellington, this day. The Journal of. the Department of Labour for December giveg the state of the labour market', in. Auckland as follows :—The building trade ia steady ; engineering dull; boob t fad©, fairly busy,; clothing and tailoring, 1: prink ; retail brado (general), fair. ' Of unsk flled labour, there ie still a.number of uneb ipj'oyed on the books of the Department seeking employment. The' agent stat ta that, although there are many compla' (nta of dull time 3, yeb fche trade agree thr »tj there are decided signs of improve-

The number of mon employed on co- ■°' ferative works for the laeb month was :-r- ---> Aurvey Department, 4 artisans and 1,200 1 &nourerß ; Public Works Department, 77 artisans, (j7l labourers ; grand.total, 1,952. / In. the Auckland district, the Depart'taent of Labour assisted 31 married and 4 single labourers, 3 married guendiggers, -5 married and - 2 single-pain tors'; total assr.stod, 45. These had 173 persons depending on them. Forty-four gaveslack-r-etfs of. brada aa the reason for inability to ob/iaia work, while one gave as the reason sic krioss. Of those; assisted forty were from the North Island, 2 from the South, ao d one each from Victoria, Now South VV nlles and Queensland. . ' ■

' T'hera was one conviction under the £Hiop» and Shop Assistants' Act obtained at Uhristchurch, and one under the "Factories Act was obtained,at Timaru. Two •cases in Auckland under the Factories Ach were withdrawn, the defendant paying costs.