THE LABOUR MARKET.
Mr Skene reports under date March 17 :— There is a fair demand for station people, dairy hands, and flax mill workfra. Harvest employs fewer people every year. Threshing will help a few; but the good old class of harvesters will soon be as extinct aa the moa. Tbe rabbit ia their last hope. Winter prospects, eßpeoia'ly in town, are very Rloomy, and our heat youDg fello%vs are forcpd to leave. Eternal grumbling is a poor policy ; but there is r.o use blinking tbe fact that, nil lines are overdone, and the capitalist hangs back. All are anxiously praying for a genuine remedy. Wages irregular.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1934, 19 March 1891, Page 18
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107THE LABOUR MARKET. Otago Witness, Issue 1934, 19 March 1891, Page 18
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