LABOUR MARKET.-MAY 24,1883.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 5, 25 May 1883, Page 13

LABOUR MARKET.-MAY 24, 1883.

P. M. Grant and Co., Labour Agents, report for the week ending May 24 :— Business has been very quiet. Our engagements art not so many as preceding week. Ploughmen. — We have placed six at 20s and 26s ; five general hands at 15s to 20s per week — a large number of general hands waiting engagements ; youths and boya able to milk not to be had in sufficient numbers, wages 10s to 15s per week; we have engaged five. Business in shepherds and couples dull ; we have engaged one shepherd at £60, and one couple at £75 per annum. - Gardeners , are not much enquired 1 after; their season . will soon be on. Day labourers, bushmen, station cooks, slight demand, and our orders have not been large ; rates, 5s to 8s per day. H-otelnlen-f airly-active-,' -we have engaged eighir during the week' at 15s to 255. Female servants in fair supply, but not of the class re-: ' quired ; we have engaged ten during the week, at from 10s to 15s. Cooks and barmaids, 20s to 30s; farm girls, £30 to £45; ' housekeepers, two engaged, one at £52 and one at £60 per annum ; farm girls hard to secure. Messrs. Meeceu Brothers, Princes street, report,: — Fresh butter (in £-lb. and lib. prints), best quality, is 2dper lb.; ordinary butter, Is per lb. ; eggs, Is 9d per dozen); roll bacon, 7£d per lb. good salt butter, in kegs, 10£ d per lb. ; cheese 6d per lb. Mr. F. Meknan, Great King street, reports : — Wholesale prices: Oats, Is 7d to Is lOd per bushel ; milling wheat, 4s to 4s 6d per bushel ; fowls' feed, 2a to 3s 3d ; barley, maltingVSs 6d to 4s 6d ; milling, 3s 6d ; feeding, 2s 6d to 3a 6d; hay, -new,-£4 ton?~ hay chaff, £4 ; straw, £2 10s ; bran, £4 ; ; pollard,: £4 10s ; potatoes, £2 ss ; oatmeal, £12 ; flour, £10 10s to £11 ; butter, > medium to prime 101 to Is Id per lb., salt lid. per lb. ; eggs, 2s per dozen; bacon, sides, B£d per lb. ; rolls, 8d; hams, lOd ; pork, 5d ; old cheese 8d to 9d, new 6d.