Labour Market.
Mr SkknK reports :- Engagements are confined to actual necessities till after the holidays. Meantime, all is life on the sheep stations. With at laitgrand weather, good clips, and .fine grain crops, we cart take breath a bit, and enjoy once agam the genuine* outcome of peaca and plenty — viz., comfort ami contentment. Bushmen, 7s to 9s ; couples £7u to £85; shepherds, £60 to £70; ploughmen, £33 to £65; station cooka, 20s to 30s (slack timei, busy time, 40a add upwards ; smiths and carpentei s, 30s to 403 and found ; day labour — light, os to 7-- : heavy, 8s and 9s ; hotelmon, 20s, 30a, and_ 50a ; grooini, 20s and 253 ; gardeners, £80 to £120 ; milkers. 109, 128,15h, aud 20s; hotel females, £40, £45, am) «52 ; dome'itics, 10s, 12s, to 15s ; boys, 6s to 10s ; storeinen, CDs ; barmaids, 20s to 303 ; housekeeper? £40 to £80 ; farm labourers and " roustabouts," I?>* to 20s ; stonebreakers, 2s 9d yard ; miners, coal am quartz, ruu about Ws ; town boys, 5s to 10a and reallowance ; country boys, 10s to 15s, and fully found Town is overstocked with boys and lftds ; aIBU shopmen, clerks, and tradesmen.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1674, 22 December 1883, Page 19
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189Labour Market. Otago Witness, Issue 1674, 22 December 1883, Page 19
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