THE LABOUR MARKET.
Mr Skcne reports on the 15th inst. .'-Business and work are looking up. We never h«d a finer | •pring for outdoor woik of all kinds. Inquiries have tet in fur station people, and the demand is fair for f.irm and dairy hands So far u\\ promises wtll for a better t-eason than we hav<- had for Borne years ; but somehow, with all our ad\nntages, we make a bad use of them. Town work is very uncertain, but the building trade seems to be wakening up a little. Late wsgi s : Couples, £t'.Q and£t)s; shepherds, £'52 ; ploughmen 15s and 17s 6d ; laboureis, 15s; cookp, 20s; milker*, 8.?, 10s, 12s (kl, and 15* ; gardeners, all prices ; grooms, 12s 6d and loj ; town boys, 5a to MR i
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Otago Witness, Issue 2173, 17 October 1895, Page 25
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128THE LABOUR MARKET. Otago Witness, Issue 2173, 17 October 1895, Page 25
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