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A p > m 7) a¢ a, ot aw SP. a . -_ se eA Kae el bs 62 INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. = : Engineers on plantations receive from $125.00 to $175.00 per month, house and firewood furnished. | Sugar boilers receive from $125.00 to $175.00 per month, house and firewood furnished. Blacksmiths on plantations, $50.00 to $100.00 per month, house and fire- wood furnished. Carpenters on plantations, $50.00 to $100.00 per month, house and firewood furnished. Loco- motive drivers, $40.00 to $95.00 per month, room and board furnished. Head overseers, $100.00 to $150.00 per month. Under overseers, $30.00 to $50.00 per month, with room and board. Bookkeepers on _ plantation, $100.00 to $175.00 per month, with-room and board. Teamsters (white), $30.00 to $40.00, room and board. Hawaiians, $25.00 to $30.00, and no board. Field labor, Portuguese and Hawaiians, $16.00 to $18.00 per month, no board. Chinese and Japanese field labor, $12.50 to $15.00 per month, no board. Bricklayers and masons in Honolulu receive from $5 to $6 per day; carpenters, $2.50 to $5.00; machinists, $3.00 to $5.00 per day of nine hours. ‘Thé domestic labor in Honolulu, and in fact all \ parts of the island, as has been said before, has for many years been performed by Chinese. During the last tew . years Japanese have entered this field, and the Japanese ~ women are in special demand for nurses. ) Chinese and Japanese cooks get from $3.00 to $6.00 per | week, board and room. Nurses and house servants, $8.00 to $12.00 per month, room and _ board. Seam- stresses get $1.00 per day-and one meal. In the year 1895 the exports amounted to $8,474,- comicbooks.c: