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AVERAGE RATE of WAGES for LABOUR.
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Trades:—
Masons
Boot- and Shoe-makers
Carpenters
Smiths
Tailors
Dyers
Tanners
Potters
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0) Silk Winders
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£2 to £20 :' the wages
varying as the labourer
receives or not food
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Wages vary from 3 to
12 c.p., according as
the labourer is fed or
not.
Somewhat higher rates'
are paid during har–
vesting
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In the native houses the domestic servants, chief!v
women, are generally clothed, housed and fed.
receiving no wayres.
is made to male serv
annum. In foreign ]
usually housed and fed
high, in some cases, as
chiefly employed.
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In some cases payment
ants, reaching £10 per
louseholds servants are
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£ 4 a month. Men are
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7 to 3 0
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5 „ 3 0
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* This Column is applicable to West Indian Colouies only.
(l) The winding machines iX Pa; bo arc generally worked ts follows:— The n-.vuc.i -^ei. SO to CGc.j:. pc:- ole o! silk
wound and -citber their families tara thi wbsels or w o m e n arc employed at 4J to 6;.p. perdieai. As mueb as aa oke
and a half oi silk can be woua 1 03 cash wheel psr diem. The winders pay a'l costa. fuel, <£:.