LABOR JOURNAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2558, 20 July 1909, Page 2

LABOR JOURNAL.

MONTHLY REPORT. The .following is the report of the Labor journal for the monih of June: — Waipiro Bay.—Building trades: All local tradesmen are fully employed. Retail trade normal. Unskilled labor: Very little required. Some men have had to leave the district. Gisborne. —Tlie month just passed has been extremely quiet in connection with all trades. The building trade is about the same as reported last month, and at the present time there are sixteen men registered as out of employment. Although there are no painters on the employment book, their trado is also very quiet. There are a few more jobs being let this month, but it is not expected that they will give employment to any additional men. Building trades: Bricklaying still very quiet, and several journeymen are idle. Carpentry and joinery quieter than last month: sixteen carpenters idle. Painting very quiet but no journeymen idle. Plumbing and gasfitting quieter than last month, and one or two men are idle. Woodworking trades: Cabinetmaking and upholstering quiet> but so far all hands have been employed. Coopering still busy, and all hands fully employed. Sash and door factories very quiet, and most places have reduced hands. Sawmilling: Trade is still busy, and is giving employment to a considerable number of men; there is another mill in course of erection in the district. Engineering trades: Electrical engineering fairly busy; a few hands employed, but wholly in the nature of repairs. Fitting and turning quiet, but all hands are employed. Leather trades: Bootmaking— Repair shops busy, and all hands ai;e, employed. Saddlery and harnessmaking—Trade during the month ha's beep very good, and hands have been kept busy. Clothing trades: Dressmaking and millinery fairly busy, and all hands have been fully employed; several firms have worked overtime during the

• •.. i month. Tailoring (order) —Trade is I still very slack,, and a number of journeymen are only working part time, although all female operatives have been 1 kept fairly engaged. . Retail trades: Clothing—-Retailers report a fair month, and about on a par with the corresponding month of last year. Boots fairly good. Drapery quieter than the corresponding month of last year; but as the winter sales usually takes place about the end of this month, intending purchasers have no doubt been waiting for the sales to commence. Groceries—A fair’ month’s business is reported,' Printing- trades: Bookbinding quiet, but all hands are employed. Meat-freezing, etc. : Tanning, currying, fellmongering, slaughtering, freezing and jireserving—A number of hands have been put off at each works during the month; hut it is expected that the season will last until the middle of. July, after which only broken time will be worked. Coachbuilding trades: Blacksmithing busy, and no journeymen idle. Coach and carriage building fairly busy, and no unemployed are reported. Cycle and motor trades very quiet. Agricultural operations: The dairying season now being practically over, there is little to report, although farmers ere busy ploughing; and one or two workers of this class have been placed during the month. Miscellaneous: Brickt making—There are two large kilns at work in the district, giving employment to about fifty men, and full time has been worked. Unskilled labor: Thero has been a very large number of applicants for employment, and it has bfeen a difficult matter to place many, owing to the railway, works being full-handed. During the month ten men have been found private employment, four of these being married men with fifteen dependents.