The Labour Market.
Mr Sken t e reports for the week ending 26fch inst. : Work is still very irregular, and comes in fits and starts. This grand spring weather should set work agoing. If we are to waken up, this is the season. There are plenty of first-class ploughmen knocking about, anxious for work. Now is the time to secure experienced men for harvest operations ; too many delay to the last moment, and then complain of getting the " riff-raft' " nnd " know-nothings." The lambing season approaches, and shepherds ore being' engaged. Mustering should soon make a stir. Couples are hard to move as yet, but they will be wanted soon. I have excellent trained couples anxiously waiting for the good times coming. Hotel servants are quite, neglected, but ordinary female helps, milkers, station cooks, navvies, quarrymon, miners arc in very fair demand. Members of Parliament who are asserting that, there is no depression and 110 unemployed in tho land should mix with the people more than they condescend to do and then the truth would soon come out.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1762, 29 August 1885, Page 15
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177The Labour Market. Otago Witness, Issue 1762, 29 August 1885, Page 15
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