SIXTY YEARS AGO
(To the Editor.) ■ Sir,—l was just reading in your paper a piece headed "Wages in Mechanised Industry," and looking back about sixty or probably a little more years, I remembered a. youth working for my folk on a farm and a. comment of his: "New Zealand is a jolly good place to live in—eight hours' work, eight hours' play, and eight bob a day." Somewhere about that time I heard my mother say she received 3d per'pound for butter, but.it <lid not pay. But if she could get 6d a lb it would. Any butter she made'was first clasd and kept well.—l am, etc., gcoT>
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1933, Page 10
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108SIXTY YEARS AGO Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1933, Page 10
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