THE LABOUR MARKET.
j • Mr Skhnb reports -under date ' May 21 :— lt is i .satisfactory to write that work becomes more plentii ful week by week. The demand for farm and station! people keeps well up. The building trade shows more, fife than for years. Taking things all round, there are "healthy signs of life in the old dog yet." Bub ik'doesnofc do to crow too much, as at even the beiti of times we. hare always, an undercurrent of men, down oflthe.lr luck,. ,Wages,s.Oouplea,£6s to £?&l ploughmen, 20s ; second class, 15s and 17s 6d ; ihep-j .fieris, £60;, station cooks.^O* and, 25s ;. milkers, 10* to 20V; toVf, Ss tO t ioi; grdpms/lSs to 20»; gar-j 'deners, 20s and 255 ; hotelcooka, 60s ; store hands: HQb and 255. l ' J i
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Otago Witness, Issue 1957, 23 May 1889, Page 19
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129THE LABOUR MARKET. Otago Witness, Issue 1957, 23 May 1889, Page 19
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