WELLINGTON LABOUR MARKET.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 12 August 1908, Page 5

WELLINGTON LABOUR MARKET.

THE LABOUR JOURNAL'S REPORT.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, AuP-ust 11 ToninT^-* 0, Well"gton -t£e Labour Journal issued, to-day) remarks that ttft.f? month just ended can -c said tv bo fair to fairly good EmSSfi?™^ the-I ha^ '«*&&« to complain about, and considering the season ot the year and-the. continued bad weather, the amount of business doing comFnf^ fairra^ ly *^ h the corresponding months of previous years. The'-e aro a : number of men -out ■of - employment but these are men connected with outside trades, which have been hampered, by weather conditions. Th» painting trade, especially, has beoh exceedingly slack, buf employers -say that this is only what can b© expected and such an is usually experienced. at tlrs I ■time of the year. Building trades are slack in the suburb but are said to be lmjbPoying.-■: In the city itself these] trades are good. Dressmaking,, nrillin-I cry and bootmaking are extremely busy and m the former. trade enough giriV .cannot bo, got.. The^ eiigineerm^ trade continues slack with no prospect of improvement. The coachbuilding trade -has been rather slack but this-is usual at this time of the year, and.' an improvement is expected with good weather. Taijonngiias been slack, though on a par with tlm time last year. The plastering trade is only fair,~ but furnjture. wooilon^ niills, plumbing and gasfittmg, saddlery and harness making trades have all been fair or better. In regard to unskilled labour, the journal remarks that "there hag been a considerable increase in the number of applicants for employment. The cause of the increase has been owing to the;iini' emtablo weather for outside workers, also the large number of men arriving uv-tho city from country .districts and orhw parts. With the advent pf".fins; v weather and the starting of the dairy season next month, there should bo few - it any, unemployed. Men used to n awy and road work can. be. placed in immediate work by the Department on co-operative (GovoTniiient)" work; Twenty-seven married men, with -sixtyi? ono flependanta, wero found "oniploy-' monfc on public and privatb work& "during tho month. Seventy men rofug«Kl work in the. country, pfeferririg to tako their chances in the city.