THE LABOUR MARKET.
! Skene and Son report under date February 27: — There was never a healthier demand than at pi'esent for mostly all classes of workers and tradesmen, both for town and country. We are full of orders— For couples at _S0 to £70, shepherds _52 to '_60, ploughmen _52 and , bonus, cooks _52 to ;£6O, labourers 7s per day, 1 trappers and poisoners special terms, grooms } 15s and 20s, flax lads 15s and up, farm and dairy lads 10s, 12s 6d, and 15s, harvesters (mostly by the weok) 26s to 30s, carpenters foi country 10s to 12s per day and passages.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2400, 1 March 1900, Page 30
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102THE LABOUR MARKET. Otago Witness, Issue 2400, 1 March 1900, Page 30
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