GOVERNMENT LABOUR EXCHANGE. IMMIGRATION OFFICE, DUNEDIN. EEPORT for Week Ending July 16, 1884. APPLICATIONS BY EMPLOYEES. 3 Ploughmen, 1 Boy to milk, 1 Groom and Gar. donor. REGISTERED FOR HIRE. 1 Station Groom, 2 Carpenters, 3 Married Ploughmen, 1 Fitter, 2 Farm Servants, 1 Milker, 1 Horseman, 4 Rabbiters, 1 Furniture Warehouseman, 1 Butcher. ENGAGED. None. CURRENT RATES OF WAGES. Ploughmen, £52 to £55 per annum ; Shepherds, £52 to £60 ; Farm Servants, from 15 to 20a per week ; Boys for milking, from 12s to 153 ; Female Servants, 8s to 10s per week ; General Labourers, 6s to 7s per day ; Wharf Labourers, Is per hour. The demand for ploughmen and .farm servants is improving. Country employers can be supplied on short notice. Labour-forms, which go free by poßt, can be obtained at all the country Poat-ofßces. ' COLIN ALLAN, •}«&! linmlw*n»t'.ou officer,
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Otago Witness, Issue 1704, 19 July 1884, Page 15
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139Page 15 Advertisements Column 1 Otago Witness, Issue 1704, 19 July 1884, Page 15
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