TAILORS WAGES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1589, 16 January 1866, Page 3

TAILORS WAGES.

TO THE KDITOK OF Till: LTTTKLTON TIMES. Sir, —I was very much surprised to read a letter which appeared in your issue of Tuesday last, signed " A Master Tailor," wherein he states that the journeymen tailors in this province receive higher wages for their labour than are paid either in Australia or any of the New Zealand provinces. Now, Sir, I emphatically deny this -, and as I have had many years' colonial experience both as an employer and journeyman, in those places, I can prove tliat there is not what we call a respectable tradesman in either place but pays prices for labour equal to those p.iid here in Canterbury, and more in some places— Otago to wit. The writer of that letter could not have hud much colonial experience beyond the little he may have picked up here, or he would uot have made such an assertion. But Sir, I believe that letter was written with no motive but a selfish one, namely, to draw men from other places, to our already over-stocked trade; and at the same time to discourage other employers from entering into the field oi competition. Yours, &e., AN EX-MASTER. | ChrUtcburch, Jan. 10,18C6.