THE LABOUR MARKET.
Mr Skkne reports under date August 17tb;— Wages - Day labour, Cb, 7s, and Ss; bushmen and minors Sa <J3, and 10s ; ploughmen, £40, £45, anci £52; couples, £U5 to £75; station cooks, smiths, and carpenters, 209, 30s, and 355; hotel men, 153, 20s, and up to 30a and BOa; do females, 20a to 30a; milkers, 103,123, and 103; boys, 53 to 10a; farm, station, and private house stirls, 10s, 123, and 15s ; storcmen, 30a to 50a ; housekeepers and governesses, 203 to liOs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 6092, 19 August 1881, Page 2
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85THE LABOUR MARKET. Otago Daily Times, Issue 6092, 19 August 1881, Page 2
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