DUNEDIN LABOUR MARKET.

Otago Witness, Issue 1449, 30 August 1879, Page 13

DUNEDIN LABOUR MARKET.

August 27th. Mr Skbnb reports :— A gradually improving tone in the demand • but things are tar slacker thaa th.y sh»uld be at this season. Ploughmen are now more asked for; but shop- ■ herds, coupks, and the building ttade, are still vory quiet. Gardeners are now in aeassn Hotels always need helps. Girls are, for a wonder, more plentiful than uaual. Men, women, and boys, for dairy, can always get places. Yeung mon for storm and offices are too plentiful. Wages are easier nil round. Wages —Couple*, £85, £70 aud £75; day labour, 6s, 7s, and 8s ; ploughmen, £5 ito £G0; mi)ker«, 16s to 255; cooks, Boots, waiters, gardeners, aud groom*, 20a to 30s ana found; country smiths, carpenter.", aud bakers, 30m to ' 42a and found ; ordinary girls, 10* to 15s; upper do., cooks, barmaids, houneKOopers, governesses, etc., 20s to 35s and 40s; boys and nursegirls, 6s to Ba. Mrs Wilsoh, Octagon, reports :—: — The demand for dousestio sorv&nts has not bean so brisk of late as usual, but this dulses* is no doubt only temporary. The supply of ordinary ssrvftnts nlightly exceeds d«uaud, bat the raws of w«gca are maintained. Boot general servants, 16s to 559s per wodk; ordinary, 10s to 15s; housbmalda, 15s to 20* ; female cooks, 20s to 40a; malo ctokd, 40i to 60s; lauudrosgna, 20s ; barmaids, 25i to Ssa; nuratgirla, t'sto 10*; uwful glrK 8s to 12«; boots at hotels, 15i t» 265; grooau, 15 B i 05s > P'OUjhmen and shepherds, 25s to 80s ; station hands, 20a to 25); labourers, 7fl to 8s Mr 4ay; married couple*, $6,5 to £^0 pir annum,