THE LABOUR MARKET.
Mr Skknb reports under date June ll:—We7 :— We are now into the dullest-of the dull season For all that there is always a fair inquiry for farm, station and dairying people. The building trade kerpß very flat The Exhibition haß not. as jrc pi overt a panacea for all our Ills, for work and money seem scarcer than ever If it was not for the rabbits hundreds would bp destitute, and strange to say we have more produce than we can sell, or consume Wages : Married couples, £65 to £75 ; shepherd*. £*5 to £fio ; station smiths, 25s to 30s; ploughmen, 20s to los; dairy people, 10s, 12e, 15b; rabbitero all prices.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1898, 19 June 1890, Page 21
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114THE LABOUR MARKET. Otago Witness, Issue 1898, 19 June 1890, Page 21
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