THE LABOUR MARKET.
Mr Skene reports under date September 20: Spring prospects are bright for all suite'l for country work, and trained people for either farms or stations are easily placed. The good old sort with genuine Home training get scarcer every year. As for shepherds, anything with a dog at its heels is called a shepheid, and swing ploughmen will soon be as extinct as the moa. Wages: Gardeners 20s and 255, couples £65 to £70, shepherds £53 to £55, ploughmen 20s and 3Qg, others 15s and 17s 6d, grooms 15s and 20s, milkers 10s, 12s, and 15s, rabbiters all prices, cookß quiet, flax lads 10s, etc., etc.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 15
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109THE LABOUR MARKET. Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 15
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