SKENE'S LABOUR EXCHANGE.
It would afford me much pleasure if, in giving Iny report for this week, I could say that a home ship with a good crowd of immigrants had arnved at Port Chalmers, but, unfortunately, such has not occurred. A little patience and we may get son vrelier ; at proscnt the demand far exceeds the supply. Tradesmen and labourers are in full employment, arc well paid, and need not go idle for an hour (barring the weather). Employers do not question the wages if tile men are up to the scratch. A few printers, bakers, and tailors arc out of work, but good men in any of these trade Miecd not be long idle. As to female servants, I have almost giv en up promising to fill up vacancies for the present. In fact wo will not get anything like the cry for them satisfied till two or three ships come in. Harvest men are getting 50s to 55s per week, and found : farm servants (married), t(io and t7O per year, and found ; single men, £.">5, ami found ; masons, 14s to 15s ; carpenters, 12s to 14s ; tuul bricklayers, 14s to 15s; boys and girls, from 5s to 8s per week ; general servants, from £35 to £45 per year ; first-class cooks and housekeepers, ±'52 per year.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW18740228.2.38.2
Bibliographic details
Otago Witness, Issue 1161, 28 February 1874, Page 14
Word Count
217SKENE'S LABOUR EXCHANGE. Otago Witness, Issue 1161, 28 February 1874, Page 14
Using This Item
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.