WELLINGTON LABOR MARKET
. - .■♦■ - • France Brothers report wages for trhe past week as follows :— Married couples, £70 to £100 ; day laborj 7s to 8s; carpenters, 10s; bricklayers and plasterers, lls to 12s ; painteiy and' glaziers, 9s to 10s ; plumbers and gasfitters, 9s to 12s; blacksmiths, 9a to 10s,; bakers, £2 to £3; draymen, 4:Js to 50.1 ; coachmon, 30s to iiss ; grooms, 25i5 to 40$ ; storemen, 35a to 50d ; gardeners, 7s to 8s per day ; barmen and poEtersYi2os toV4o.s; waiter^ 255. to 355 ; boots and kitchonnu'ii, 15s to 25s;' cooks (men), 25s to 50s, (female), 20s to 30s; housemaids, 12s to 15s; hotel do, 15& to $(hj general servants; 10s to 14s; nursa gin.s, 5s to 8s; barmaid*, 25.s to 30s; boys, 5s to 12s 6d; milkmen, 10s to 255;: laundresses, 4s per day. Qood female sprvauts are still very 3carce, " !
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 51, 29 January 1884, Page 2
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139WELLINGTON LABOR MARKET Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 51, 29 January 1884, Page 2
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