THE LABOUR MARKET.
May sth. Mr Skbnb reports :— A fair inquiry for country people, principally ; but fanners, Bquatters, and the hands they need are all so difficult to please nowadays that it make things very unpleasant. Couples are in very good demand, but always with the old, cruel, and unnatural clause, "no family." RDairy people, female servants, and hotel people are always needed. Sk'lled tradesmen are a shade more active; shopmen and clerks are seldom needed— in fact are a drug. Wages : Ploughmen, £52 to £55 ; shepherds, £60 to £65 ; day labour, 6s 7s, and 8s ; couples, £65 to £80 ; hotels— men cooks, waiters, boots, billiardmarkers, barmen, &c, 20s to 80s ; really first-class cooks, from 50s to 80s ; ordinary girls, 10s to 14s ; upper do, housekeepers, barmaids, cooks, governesses, and pianists, 20s to 40s.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1486, 8 May 1880, Page 13
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134THE LABOUR MARKET. Otago Witness, Issue 1486, 8 May 1880, Page 13
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