THE LABOUR MARKET.

Evening Post, Volume XX, Issue 168, 21 July 1880, Page 3

THE LABOUR MARKET.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE EVENING POST. Sir— Having noticed in your issno of yesterday a paragraph, in which you say that a gentleman advertising for six men at 3s Gd per day had fourteen applicants to select from, in the interests of the uremployed. I tako the liberty to call your attention to tho great contrast whioh exists in the labour market of this place compared with the West Coast of tho Middlo Island. A contractor had a notice in the local paper for over two months, offering twelve shillings per day for good pick and shovel men beforo he could get tho requisite number of men he roqnired. Surely this does not speak so badly for tho much-abused and neglected goldfield of the West Coast of tho Middle Island, and I think that if tho authorities would only tako the troublo they could distribute their works so as to forward some of the unemployed to places where anyone willing to work can always make 30s to 40s per week at a reproductive work — I mean goldmining — and equilise the labor market, to tho mutual benefit of employois and of unemployed. I nm, &c, A Westlandbr. 21st July, 1880.

Sound Advice. — Tho answers to correspondents' column of an American-German journal contains the following: — "U.S.— We really think you had better not visit us in order to receive an explanation of the reason why we have rejected your manuscribt. Our staircase, wo beg to inform you, has twentyfour steps, and wo do not keep a bolster at the bottom." The hardest thing in tho world for a young woman to do is to look unconcerned tho first time she comes out in a handsome engagement ring.