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Utter chaos prevails owing to the want of system and energy in the past, states the Daily Mail, referring to English war labour direction. While the Government offices are packed with young shirkers—so that in a single department, the Ministry of Munitions, there are reported to he 800 men of military age—the owners of single-man businesses ate being taken to the front in conditions) which mean their ruin. While in one part of England clerks and shop-walkers are being dragged off to the farms as substitutes for agricultural labourers, in another part the farm s are overstaffed with young, able-bodied men. Wily not take the men from the overstaffed farms in s<uch counties as Cornwall, where 995" have too many young men, and avoid the “general post” of labourers, clerks, and shop-walkers elsewhere. '
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1917, Page 1
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