366 



^'£1V SOUTH IVALBS. 



• Rate per animm. All other wages enumer.ited are at per week, the whole of which include board and 

 lodgiijg with the exception of waitresses in coffee palaces and restaurants, some of whom sleep off the 

 premises. 



Shearers. — Outside districts have beea paying 20s. per 100; central and eastern districts 

 a reduction to 17s. ; small stations, 15s. Rouseabonts, '20s. to 2.5s. per week ; in some 

 cases 30s. per week, according to experience. Other hands, including wool-pressers and 

 overseers, engine machinists, range from £2 to £5 per week, according to arrangement. 

 Shearers' cooks, Ss. to 4s. per week from each man on one board ; shearers' rouseabouts, 

 2s. Gd. to 3s. 6d. per week from each man on the board. General station hands engaged 

 for Ijoundary riding, &c., all the year round from 15s. to 203. per week. Shepherds are 

 now being replaced with boundary riders as the country becomes fenced. 



Sfiop A-:s!stiin(s. — Counter hands in the ironmongery, draperj-, grocery, and similar 

 trades receive from £2 10s. to £3 per week fur foremen and seniors, ordinary assistants 

 from £1 10s. to £2, and junior.s from 10s. to 20s. per week ; office and errand boys from 

 58. to 10s. per week. 



Bakers. —Foremen and first-class hands receive from £2 10s. to £3 per week, and 

 second-class from £1 to £2 per week. 



Brass-finishers and Coppersmiths. — \Vages range from 8.s. to 12s. per day. A large 

 number of youths and apprentices are employed in the mechanical branches. The manu- 

 facture of brass foundry is very considerable. 



Building Trades. — Wages are paid at per day, owing to the loss of time that happens 

 tiirough inclement weather or other causes. Trade has been extremely dull for the past 

 two or three years ; buL latterly tlie demand for labour has increased, and tliere has been 

 a little more activity in tlie building trade generallj'. Wages are somewhat unsettled, 

 therefore the rates given can only be taken as approximate. Masons receive from 10s. to 

 128. ; bricklayers, Ss. to 10s. ; carpenters and joiners, 7s. to 10s. ; plasterers, slaters, 

 gaivani/ed iron workers and plumbers about the same ; labourers, pick and shovel men, 

 and unskilled labour generally are in over su[iply, and men areglal to get work at as low 

 aa OS. per day. 



iJM/r/i/T^. -Shopmen get from 20s. to 50s; boys, 10s. to 20s. ; slaughtermen, 303. to 

 508. ; and small goodsmen from £2 to £3 per week. In many cases a slightly lower rate 

 of wages is accepted when board and lodging is provided. In tlie city very few butchers 

 make their own small goods, supplies being obtained from those whose special business 

 is to manufacture and deliver, as well as to take waste from the shops. 



Coarh-htiihkrs.— Smith and wheelers' wages are from 30s. to 50s. per week ; bodymakers, 

 painters, and trimmers arc paid at about similar rates ; and vicemen from .30s. to 35s. per 

 Wfc..-k. TIktc is a goo<l <leal of work done in tliis trade throughout the Colony, and large 



