The high wages "paid to boys in the country were made the subject of comment by Mr Acland during the hearing of the farm .labourers' dispute by the Conciliation Board at Christchurch. "Buys are not to be. had tor love or money in the country," he said. "The boy sits up aloft and makes his own terms, and the farmer who has milking to bo done had to make the best terms he could, if ho has no sons of his own. The wages of boys have gone up from practically nothing to almost the saino amount as men. Boys r.f eighteen earn as much as £65 a year, all found, as shepherds, and learn their trade at the same time. There are many cases of that kind iu the country."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 54, 27 November 1907, Page 10
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