MELBOURNE LABOR MARKET.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume 3, Issue 188, 23 June 1874, Page 2

MELBOURNE LABOR MARKET.

(From the Australasian Sketchier). - The following are the rates ef wsgss ■ paid : Domestic Servants.—For Town— Housemaids, 30k to 35k per Muimp; female cooks receive 40k to 60k per annum ; male do. 39s to 80s per week'; nursemaids, 30k to 35k per annum; laundresses, 30k to 40k per annum. . For Hotels—Cooks, male and female; 60k to 100k per annum ; housemaids 35k to 40k per da For Stations—Fiist-dasa married couples for home stations, 70k to 90k per annum; second-class da, with ' children, 40k to 60k per do ; cooks 46k to 55k per do; housemaids, 35k to 46L per do. For Farms—Man coda 60k to 60k per annum ; married couples 60k to 70k per do ; female general servants 30k to 35k per do. Station Hands.—Drovers, from 2St to 30s per week; grooms and stockmen, 20s do; farm servants and ploughmen, 25s do; stock-riders and boundary-man, 35k to 45k per annum; shepherds, 15s to 20s per week. Milkmen are wanted; the wages paid are from 15s to 20» per week. < The following wages for skilled laborers and other tradesmen are without rations, unless where specially men-' tioned;— Building Trades—Stonemasons 11a per day ; plasterers, bricklayers, slaters, 10s per do; carpenters 10s to Us per do ; , laborers, 7s per do; pick and shovel ;. men, 6s per do. The day's work is eight hours. Bakers. —First-class workmen (foremen) average 3k per week ; second hands 2k to 2k 2s. to inferior shops tha-ntoo - are slightly lower. Butchers —Shopmen rapaim irqm 36a to 40s per week: boys, Ito, to 30s par week; slaughtermen receive from 40» to . 60s per week; small-godas then (pork ' butchers) receive 30q. to 40s per week with rations ; superior-men neavfrmbrfc