DUNEDIN LABOUR REPORTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1422, 22 February 1879, Page 13

DUNEDIN LABOUR REPORTS.

Mr. Skbne reports an increasing demand for all sorts of out door workers. Harvest operations secure most at present. All other works are short handed, r>nd all departments are getting splendid wages. The building trade is very healthy. Bushmen are much needed. The Wellington's shipmpnt of men and women makes little difference in the market. Couples are hard to place. Hotel servants are alw ays scarce. Good milkers a>-e very rare, prospects are irood for the three months Wages : Harvesters, 303 toSO 1 ) ; couples, £76 to £90; sher herds and ploughmen, £60, £65, a r >d £70 ; day labour, Bs, 9s, 103, and Us ; cooks, boots, waiters, &c, 20fl to 40s ; grooms and gardoners, 25s ; station cooks, 25s ; ordinary uirls, 109, 12s, and 16s; upper do., 20a to 30s ; boys and girJs, 6s to 10s ; milkers, 15s, 20a, and 255.

Mrs Wilson, Octagon, reports: Good demand for first-cia^s servants for town and country. Best general servants, 15s to 20s; ordinary, 10s to 15s housemaids, 15h to 20s; female cooks, 20) to 40s; male cooks, 40s to 60^ ; laundresses, 20s; barmaids, 25s to 355 ; nursegirls, 63 to 10* ; useful girls, Fs to 12s ; boots at hotels, 15s to 255 ; grooms, 16s to 26s ploughmen and shepherds. 26s to 30a ; station hands, 20s to 255 ; labourers, 8s to 9s ; married couples, £ 0£.90.