DUNEDIN LABOR MARKET.
Harvest operations have absorbed all the unemployed. Tradesmen of all kinds are active as ever, both in town and country. Road and rail men are in many cases on the harvest field for a change. Sheep shearing being about throught, the men get a turn at harvest. Wa^s :— Farcn and station couples, £75, £60, arid £90 and found : farm hands, from £.;>£ to £05 ; dairy and odd hands from 15s to 20s per week ; day laborers, 9s, 10s, and lis per day ; saw-millers for country, 12s ; carpenters irom 12.s to 13s ; inaoons, 10s and upwards • t ema>e servants, £4V to £oZ -, waiters, cooks, barmen and grooms, from 25s to 40s per week ; useful boys aud girls, 7s, ss, to los per week.
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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 31, 11 February 1875, Page 5
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124DUNEDIN LABOR MARKET. Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 31, 11 February 1875, Page 5
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