WORK AND WAGES.
The 'Journal of Labor' for January 18 has the following reference* to the state of the local labor market:
Oamaru.—Building trades : Good in timber and stone ; all available hands employed.—Engineering trade : Good; regular hands all employed.—Boot trade : Good ; usual hands at full work.—Clothing trade : Very good; all available hands employed. Retail trade (general) : Business generally good.—Miscell'ai eons: During the month business generally has had an upward tendency. The approach of the. holidays and the good prospect of a. plentiful harvest, no doubt, has been the cause.—Unskilled labor: Seven men applied for work They were sent to co-operative, employment, on the Elderslic Estate road-making. There arc only a few men now out of regular employment ; those lew will not. leave the town, as they find occasiona hvork on the wharf and in stores.
Dunedin.—Building trades: Carpenters are still in demand. Bricklayers, masons, [winters, and plasterers working full time.— Engineering trades : All branches are still busy, but there is not the demand for tradesmen that obtained a few months ago. The shops arc now fully manned.—Boot trade : There, is no improvement in the. condition of trade this month, a number of hands being only partly employed, whilst others are out of work altogether.—Clothing trade : Factories, have been very busy"during the. moDth, all of them having worked overtime. There is still a keen demand for tailoresscs. Shop tailoring and dressmaking.very busy, overtime being worked in all workrooms.—Retail trade (general) : First-class business has been the rule in all branches of trade.—Unskilled labor: Application* for employment have been fewer this month than at any other time of the year.
At- a meetiDg of the Auckland Builders and Contractors"" Union of Employers ip was resolved to send the president (Mr J. J. Holland) to represent them at the meeting of the Buildeis' Union in ChrUtchttrch ht the end of the month.
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Evening Star, Issue 11453, 22 January 1901, Page 6
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