WORK WAITING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 438, 22 February 1909, Page 2

WORK WAITING.

-;■'■ - •;: ;;'GOOO/WAGEI3 ON FAJUIS.- ■•':; So '" "Wβ are. \told : : that there 1 fare '.hundreds : of ; men ■ out. of '. work .in -.the cities: '(writes ■ our travelling 'correspondent) i 'but , in "the country : they would .find plenty of work and "a /much •more-healthy life:; .The,, farmers', don't ;ku6Mr' : where .to'-put'.their: hands on men who are' 'Only the .other;day?a Bangitikei ; farmer burned' a -.portion; 1 of his '. oat ci-op ;because' it :had:.been so long exposed to the weather that, it; was valueless.:';. It. had .been, in stobkfor weeks:-: mainly, because-, he could -npt" get.sufficient' labour.'/ Another, farmer/ whose place -I'passed: the mother day, was .in a:;fix also.;-: He' .could , ; not /get; men, and his crop-was/in danger of being damaged by a change of -.Harfly a ; dav passes' 'without^some' farmer asking me if I'know;or a "good man; sometimes it is/a ploughman that.is wanted;- :'at bthers.a.general ;farm' hand;, the other day. it was; a. fencer.. A good fencer seems to 'be; almost-'past getting. There is 'w6rk/in. : abundance. among the farmers for those who;are willing to accoptit at a reasonable wage. Only the otherday/I.was tallang. to ,a farmer in the Kairanga district, where he. and bis man were/repairing fences.. '.He.told me paying'one shilling and threepence per hour. ; Now/ that is out.of.all-reason;.it. is the extra harvest wage'; but becould not get a man Ifor less. ■ Many ..a farmer would putori extra men 1 if be could, get them at; a reasonable rate.'-Tlien, -again,: there' are; so many who , are:not worth their "tucker." :...'.