THE LABOUR MARKET, MAY 5, 1880.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 368, 7 May 1880, Page 15

THE LABOUR MARKET, MAY 5, 1880.

Mr. Skene reports a fair enquiry for country people principally. But farmers, squatters, and the hands'they need are all so difficult to please now-a-days, that it makes things very unpleasant. Couples are in very good demand, but always with the old cruel and unnatural clause, "no family." Dairy people, farm servants, and hotel people, are always wanted ; skilled tradesmen are a shade more active ; shopmen and clerks are seldom needed, in fact, now-a-days. Wages : Ploughmen, £52 to £55 ; shepherds, £60 to £65 ; day-labourers, 6s, 7s, and 8s ; couples, £65 to £80. Hotels : Men-cooks, waiters, boots, billiard-markers, barmen, &c., 20s to 30s ; really first-class cooks, 30s to 80s. Ordinary girls, 10s to 14s ; upper ditto, housekeepers, barmaids, cooks, governesses, pianists, 20s to 40s.