This extract from the wages ledger (employee identities hidden) of the nursery in Rangiora is for the week ending Thursday 20th November, 1890. The daily rate ranged from 1/2 to 8/4, this was during the difficult times of the long depression in New Zealand through the 1880s and 1890s. (
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Mike Ivory
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