LABOR MARKET.
Mr Sydney Davies reports :— Wages— Day labor, 7s to 9s; farm couples, L.05 to iißii; station couples, L 75 to L9O ; ploughmen, 20s to 255; farm hnml*, 203 to 22s 6d ; gardener.*, 2i>s to 40s ; milker-, and knockabouts, 12s G<l to 17s Cd ; boys, country, 8s to losT; town, (is to 12s; grooms, 203 to JOa ; storeincii, 40s and 50s ; masons, 12s ; driversout 15s, 20^, and 255, according to age. Fomalo day labor, 3s and 4s ; housekeepers, LlO to L 52 ; cooks, L 35 to LSO ; housemaids, l'> 3 Oil to 10s ; general servants, 10s to 15s ; nurse-girls, 7s and 9s ; gonorally usofuls, 5s to Bs.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2772, 11 August 1883, Page 2
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108LABOR MARKET. Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2772, 11 August 1883, Page 2
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