FARM LABOURERS' DISPUTE.
[BT TELE&ItAPH.—PttESS ASSOCIATION.] Timaru, December 10. „• At the hearing of tho farm labourers' di» .puto-.ibfiforo-.this- Conciliation Board to-day L.; .rariu.Jabouror, thirty-two years in tho Do-., 'million, and fifteen, years, with his present employer,, .said ho ; was.; perfectly satisfied ' | with'tho present conditions and £1 a week, with £s.,bonus for harvest.' S. L. Twentyman, .i honorary secretary to the Farmers', Do- . • was examined .and cross- \ examined'at length.; He had made inquiries of. workers,[ farnlers,'" and.others, arid could . not ascertain Cliat, there,".had been any dissatisfaction sl'.owir.by"'thei Workers till !h© Union came along. As a practical farmer, ho .condemned the Union's proposals, root r.nd br'anchV'aud donied tho possibility of framing an-award to suit both farmers and men. Johiii Talbot,, chairman ofithe Farmers' Cooperative; Association, and a; farmer of , 3000.: acrescJgavo,. similar, evidence on theso points, and added that wheat-growing, did not pay . - M tho averago of years,.:. Most farmers sell ,in| April, and the average price of wheat that month foretell' and'eighteen years past had 'been between 3s. and 3s. Id. per bushel.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 66, 11 December 1907, Page 9
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