A WORD OF WARNING.

Evening Star, Issue 7475, 20 March 1888, Page 2

A WORD OF WARNING.

lne BUDjoiueu leidier Bpea.no iui imcu. it d have only to add that the writer is a wellknown ex-tradesman of Dunedin, where he resided for twenty-seven years : Melbourne, March 12. Sir—Will.vcu allow me a few lines of your space to enable me'to give a few words of caution to the working men of New Zea'and, and particularly to the tradesmen who are about to go over to Melbourne. There has been such a rußh hero of people from Sydney ar d Adehide that there ate now more people walking about the s'reets of Melbourne wanting employment than there are people in Dunedin altogether. lam sure thit this coming winter will tee things worse here than they a-e in Dunedin. I know theie is a lot cf work going on he>e just new, but where a man is wanted there are 300 to take the billet. I advise all tradesmen and laborers to stay In New Zealand, it they c:n get a crust of bread where they are. This place iB riijht enough, bui people have been coming here at the rate of 1,000 perwetkduring the pasteight months from all parts, and th? y will tase any wage thit is offered to them. There are painters here whs ace working for 63 63 per day. A flrstc'fiss rainterand grainer is lucky to get 8s per day; and then he is likely to he two weeks in woik and three weeks id'e. When the Exhibition is done I cm see what is ciming-s'.frvation for hundreds. I was speaking the other day to an old fiend and exDunedioite, Mr Kobert Haworth. who was my employer when in Dunedin. He has been here between thirty and forty years, and he tells me" he can see what is coming. He aays that there will be suoh a col lap e here soon that Melbourne has never experienced the like cf it. I would 6trongly advise people a? inst ciming here for the presmt.—TnoMAS Pbabck f late of Short and Pearco. South Dunedin).