Various interesting sidelights on tihej payment of farm workers in Taranaki were thrown during the hearing of a claim in the Supreme Court in New Plymouth. A South Taranaki farmer stated that a good man for farm labouring coud be obtained for £2 a week, and that ,a sharemilker on a reasonably good proposition would probably clear about £2OO a year. Another farmer of North Taranaki said that he employed ,a sharemilker, whose wife, daughter, and two sons assisted him, at £4 a week. He considered the work on .his farm was light, however, A South Taranaki sharemilker who has for some time been sharemilking on first-class, farms, and has now taken up a farm of his own, stated that during the last year or two he had made about £450 gross ,and cleared about £l5O net.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5220, 23 December 1927, Page 3
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