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LABOR MARKET.
Quotation of rates of wages, by W. R. Hunt
of the Labor Office, King William-street:
Domestic Servants—At per week, with board
and lodging.—Housekeepers, 10s to 12s ; cooks,
professed, 10s to 12s housemaids, 8s to 10s;
laundresses, 9s to 10s; kitchenuiaids, 8s to Us -
upper nurses, 8s to 9s ; nursemaids, 6s to 7s ; 1
ntusegirls, 2s 6d to 5s ; general servants, 6s to 9a.
I Farm, Servant*— At per week «with board and
lodging; those marked thus * have board and
lodging for two, and thus t rations for one adult.
Ploughmen, single, 12s to 15s; -Ho, married,
13s to 15s, with cottage, fuel, and water; do.
do, without board, 2ls to 255, with cottage,
fuel, and water; *dodo, man and wife, both
employed, wife as general servant at the farm
house, &&, 20s to 22s 6d; farm laborers, not
being ploughmen, or indifferent ones onlj, 12s
to 13s. ; boys and youths, for harrowing and
ploughing, 8s to 10s; small boys for cattle,
and sheep minding, 2s to 8s; bullockdrivers,
men, 13s. to 15s ;do do, boys, 6s. to 10s.; hay
makers, 16s. to 20 per week, with board and
lodging; harvest hands, 20s. and wine.
Station Hand* —At per annum with rations!
and expenses, paid op to the station,
those marked thus * have double rations, and
thus _+ are occasional hands only. —'Shepherds,
married, 35i; do, single, with a hntkeeper. 34?
to 391 ; do, do, to hutkeep for themselves,
441 4s; i-lambminders (men) 12a, hutkeepers,
267; *married couples for head station
man and wife both employed, 451 to 52/,
and for first-class hands (second year
on station), £55 ; bullock, drivers ou
the station, about 441 4s; do do, when on the
road, 521; knockabout hands, 391 to 4& ;
bush carpenters, 52i to 78? ; men cooks, 392 to
52/; do do, shearing tame, 521 to 651; horse
drivers, 4W; do when on the roads, S2l ;
+welLdnkers and hut-builders, according to
contract; fwoolpressers, 522 to 65/, and
at per bale; Tshearers, 15s. to 18s. per
100 and rations, according to sheep and
distance from Adelaide, with expenses paid
up to the station; stockriders, 522 to 65?;
fsheejxlrovers, 521% waief Jra-e^-u, .£W to 45!;
whimdrivers, men, 391 ; do do youths, 262 to 31/.
Miscellaneous Calling*. —Cabmen, 15s to 20:
per week, with board and lodging; coachmen,
17s to 23s per week, with board, and lodging
grooms, 15s to 20s per week with board and
lodging; gardenera, single, 15s to 20s per week,
with board and lodging ; do, married, 30s to 35s
per week, with house, fuel, and water *la
borers, 4s 6d to 6s 6d per day; carter*, 6s to
7s per day ; fencers, per rod, three trails, 2s
3d to 3s; wire fencers per rod, 3s to 5s ; wires
and cross nils. Is 3d to 2s 3d.
Dairy Sea-rants—At per week with board and
lodging.—Milkmen, 14s to 20s; dairymaids, 8s
to !)s ; uiarried couples, man and wife both em
ployed in dairy, 20s to2ss; extra good butter and
cheese makers, women, 9s to 10s.
Hotel Servants—At per week with beard and
lodging.—Barmen, 15s to 20s; barmaids, 10s to
12s;Boots,inen,14s to 16s; do youths, 10s to 12s
cooks, men, 20s to 30s; do, women, 12s to 14s ;
housemaids, 9s to 10s ; kitcbenmaids, 9s to 10s;
laundresses, 10a to 12s; ostlers, men, 15s to 20s ;
do. youths, 10s. to 12s; knife-boys, 8s to 10s.
Tradesmen— At per day.—Blacksmiths, 7s
to 8s; bricklayers, Ss to 9s; bookmakers, per
1,000,12s; carpenters, 8s to 9s; cabinetmakers,
8s to 10s ; coopers, 7s 6d to 8s ; engineers, 9s to
12s; galvanized ironworkers, Ss to 10s; iron
founders, 9s to 12s; masons, 8s to 9s ; millers,
8s to 8s Cd; miners, 5s to 6s 8d; painters, 6s to
8s 6d; plasterers, 9s. and piecework; plumbers, 9s
to 10s; quarrymen, Cs to 7s, and piecework; sad
dlers, 6s 6d to 8s; sawyers, 7s to Bs, and piece?
work; shoemakers, 6s and piecework ; shoeing
smiths, 7s Cd to 9s; stonebreakers, 2i-inch
gauge, 2s 2dto 2s 9d per yard; storemenrCs to
7s ; tailors, 7s to 8s; tanners, Ss to 10a; tinmen,
Cs to 9s; watchmakers, 10s to 14s; wheelwrights,
9s to 10s. At per week, with board and lodging.
—Bakers, 20s to 30s; butchers, 20s to 30s.
mutton slaughtermen, 12s per 100 and. find
themselves.
. Julv 14.
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