DUNEDIN LABOUR REPORT.

Otago Witness, Issue 1418, 25 January 1879, Page 13

DUNEDIN LABOUR REPORT.

January 22ud, 1879. Mr Skkms reports : Never m the hUtorv of New Zealand Ins work been so p'enliful and bo well p.tid. Thero is no gitiing- out of the fact tiut ciuplo>erd are mare plentiful th-ui employes. Harvest will now (.Icoiarid eveiy man, " Patent Binder" and al . Coupes, ploughmen, qunr ymon, 'abourers, {rauleners, cooks waitow, tai ora, uiid b <ick mitlis are constant y needed. G rls in every uupartui'jiit aie s*dly needed. Even know>>otliiiitra c«i now >rot a turn at the harvest No excuse f.>r U afuis ft 1 out our streets now w ugts : Labourers, 8% 9s, acd 10s ; c mples, £75 t ) £85 ; pluu«hmen anil shepherds, £60, £65, and £70; dairy peoples, 15i. '^'"a, and 25s f'-nivle soivnt , 10s, 15s 20s, 25i, and co< ; cooks, waiters, grooms and boots, 20j to SOi , grooma an-1 sjardciicvs, 25s And 30s ; carpenters, masons, and bricklayers, 113 to ICs. ' !Mrs Wilson, Octiieton, reports : doo 1 demand for firbt-c'ass servants for town nii'l couutiy. Boat ;rGncr<il servants, 153 to 20a; ordiniry, lOt to 15^; hon-'emiich, 15s to 20s; female cook°, 20* to 40s; malo conk*:, 40'! to 00^ ; hundrest.es, '20s; hartniida, 25s to 355," nuisogirls, 63 to 10d ; u-cful girls, to 12-i ; boots at h itela, 15s to 25a ; groom 3, 103 to 25s ; piotu;hino:i and ohophunls, '2!>sf 10 '3Qs ; Htation hmnU, aOs to :sj; labuurwv, SjtoSte; uwvikde u.'lcu, £.

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