Labour Market.

Otago Witness, Issue 1652, 21 July 1883, Page 15

Labour Market.

Mr Skknb reports :— Engagements were never bo easily got as now, and hrst-clas3 men can get as much work as they choose at Ba, 9s, and 10s, and any healthy man who saj s he can't get work is a fraud. We are aa pushed for good girls as ever. Bushmen, 7a to 9a; couples £70 to £85; shepherds, £60 to£7o ; ploughmt-n, £52 to £55 ; station cooks, £1 10s (slack time), busy time, 40a to fcOs ; smiths and carpenters, 33s to 425 ; day labour— light, sa, 63, and 1 7s ; heavy, 8a and 9a ; hotelmon, 20s, 30s, and 50s j grooms, 20s and 25a ; gardeners, £80 to £120 ; milkots, 10s, 12s, 15s, and 20s ; hotel females, £40, £45, am\ £52 ; domestics, 10s, 12s, to lSa ; boys, 53 to 10a ; storomen, 50s ; barmaida, 20a to 30a ; housekeepers, £40 to £80 ; farm labourers and " roustabouts," lfis to 20s ; stonebrcakers, 2s 9d yard ; miners, coal and quartz, run about lus ; town boys, 5s to 10s and no alowance ; country boys, 10* to 15s, and fully found. Why do parents throw away their youngsters On city prospects.

P. M. Grant and Co. report wagea : - For couples, £60 to £80 ; gardeners, shepherda, £60 to £65 ; plough nen, £52 to £65 per annum, and all found ; farm hands, grooms, milkers. 20a ; station and farm cooks, Hmiths, carpenters, engiuc-drivera, 25a to 30a ; youtns, bbvs. 5s to 10a ; hotd hands, 15s to 25a per week, and found ; day labour, 6a to 8a ; smiths, carpenters, 8s to 10s : domestic servants, farm, country, £30 to £45 ; hotels and town, 12s, 15s, 20s; nursegirls, ss, 10s; barmaids, cook" 20s, 303