THE LABOUR MARKET.
Mr Skene report? under date August 1-1 : — AfW a week of floods and most trying winter weather it is cheering to see the sun and dry ground once again. A few fine days will set work agoing. As the spring advances employment is bound to be more plentiful. Prices have improved for produce, and men will be needed to fill up the gaps made by the numbers who have left us. The Midland railway will also doubtless monopolise hundreds of our sturdiest labourers. Wage* : Couples, £65, £70, pnd £75; coojts, 208; shepherds, £55; river puntmen, 20s ; station gardeners. XOs ; do blacksmiths, 25s ; ploughmen, 20s and 17b fid; labourers, 15s; milkers 10s, 12s, 15s. and 20s ; bushmeii, 4s and 5s per cord ; grooms, 15s and 20s.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1917, 17 August 1888, Page 19
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128THE LABOUR MARKET. Otago Witness, Issue 1917, 17 August 1888, Page 19
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