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Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1933, Page 2

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! . 1 v •!"• *' ■ .■ . . TWO MEN FAIL TO FIND WORK

FARMERSi WERE SUSPICIOUS

” / ' DUNEDIN, March 6. Regarding themselves •a s /a burden on their -respective families, two young ; A-ufcklgnd .buginess ,men who ~havje*been out, of employment fo r nearly -a year .decided' that city and look for ,wprk elsewhere. - Now tjjey j are in ..Dunedin, having tramped practically the length of the • country in a fruitless' search for - employment. , These young. wanderers cheerfully ascribe their failure to the fact that they are 1 city ■ men.'' Single, and decently clothed, : they l’.ft Auckland where they., e ay .it. is. impossible, fo r a single, man' to get even a living wage. Their' suite were good, and they en-deaypured-to .keep them as clean a» possible,’ but their genera] appearance failed to -satisfy any of the farme.v, whom they .encountered that they had a, genuine desire for employment. T-hey told/ a reporter / that .the .wearing of collars and,. tie,s seemed to convince farmers ‘' that they were imposters. This; apparently, i s on 3 of the things .that /is " 5 -‘-‘not. done” ,on the road. A man'simply does mot ask for work if he is the pousessor of -a collar and tie. ; '•/' /' ’ plenty of abuse.

“All w e got wag abuse, and plenty of 'it,’’ they -flaid, ' . 1 It - Is strange that In almost every ease*' where they asked for work they were ordered off the property. Most 'farmers were experiencing fhe leanest of times and ■ obviously had no sympathy with alee -vyjio was up against it. j\, , ■*' 'f The men ..left Auckland joint capital .of £2 10s, , their original intention, being to cross to Nelson..in the hope „of getting ' some work in the .f ruitpicking seasoh. TEey battled through the King Country and ■ then struck across' to ! New Plymouth and Wanganui. From there they tramped to Wellington, jealously guarding their money.-There wag nothing in Wellington,; j and they spent ‘money to. cross ' the' Straits, , imagining that their total hvould' have :aMowi°d them ‘los to spate,;:.: .iUhfortrihhtely;. • the.. passage money - represented . their exact total. ■ '•Nothing dauhte;ffj they set out to

(- explore <thg Nelson\ a.nd Blenheim dis- > ;t'ric^ s , ’ were'. equally ' unsuccessful. . ' Then : the : y'walfee'd* .'dver"' w tb ; Kaikoura Y ahd ' where, they found k >*ill©- same 'conditions, ‘and down the- / /coast ..to Timoru and,/Dunedin.- In . all / their travels thay w»ent, .miles off. the main-,'road® to iin I vestigate>' , a:hy possib/e, S/arerige of employment, but the reply , was/ in'evi.tably, ;: -“notfrmg doing’’ (gen- ■ erally accompanied/ by ..abusive direef tions" to "make themselves scarce). Even •" in wheps,they, willingly offered'to • do? any. soft-of • work for a rfieai they were met with QP_Y}_ host/ l|ty. ,