SKENE'S LABOUR EXCHANCE.
August 22nd, 1877. There is a decided revival in the labour mwket, and out-door labourers of most kinds are in demand. It ia hardly time yet for the building trade to recover, still carpenters, masons, and brickliyers, are beginning to move. Ploughmen' of experience are at once ; secured. Dairymen and women are also looking: up. I Female servants, fortunately for themselves, can still' dictate their own terms. Blacksmiths and ironworkers' are still very depressed. Storemen aud clerks for town and country will very soon be needed for the sp.-ing trade. Couples, with and without families, are now in request. Hotel .servants, male and female, are rather quiet, it Is assuring to be able to report very' few unemployed about our streets. Most of the chronic grumblers have disappeared. Shepherds are asked' for, a3 the mustering lime is fast approaching. Wages —Bricklayers and masons, 12s and 15s ; carpenters,lls to 12s ; couple-s for farm and station, £70 to £80 : shepherds, £60, £65. and up to £75 ; day labour, 7s| Bs, 9s, and 103 ; farm and house girls, 12s and 15s; private houses and hotels, 10s, 12s, 15s, 20s, and up to 30s ; dairymen, l'ss, 20s, and 255 ; boys and girls, 93 to 10s ; country storemen, 30s aDd 40s per weeV, and found. Bushufen'and mill hands are now asked tor. ,
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Otago Witness, Issue 1343, 25 August 1877, Page 11
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220SKENE'S LABOUR EXCHANCE. Otago Witness, Issue 1343, 25 August 1877, Page 11
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