THE LABOUR MARKET.
Mr Skenk reports under date February 20 : — At last we are favoured with fine harvest weather, and farmers and their men are hard at it making up for lost time. There is a very fair demand for country hands at the following rates : — Station and farm couples, £65 to £75 ; married gardeners, £80 ; shepherds, £55 and £60 ; farm men, £1, and extra for harvest ; cooks, 20s and 255 ; grooms, 15s and 20s ; dairy people, 10s, 12s 6(1, 15s, and 20s ; flax cutter 3, 4s and 4s Cd per ton ; ilax lads, 7s to 10s ; town boys, 53 to 10s.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2087, 22 February 1894, Page 24
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102THE LABOUR MARKET. Otago Witness, Issue 2087, 22 February 1894, Page 24
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