AGRICULTURAL WAGES.
FAIR REMUNERATION GIVEN. OFFICIAL FIGURES. According to the Government Statistician, the lot of the average agricultural employee is not so hard as we had thought it. Ploughmen average 42s per week where board and lodging is “found”; general hands are a shilling less in agricultural and: sheep farming, but 4s less in dairy farming. With free housing, ploughmen get 60s, general hands in the agricultural section 695, in. the sheep section 595, and when dairying 575. “No extras” ploughmen earn 70s, general hands In agriculture and dairying 69s whilst the sheep hands who fends for himself obtains 745. All other farms servants are paid much higher wages, except “cowboys,” who ip New Zealand, are probi ably real boys, whose average wages are given as 295, with keep and boad, and 30s without extras. Additional perquisites, such as a harvest bonus, or a holiday on full pay, were given in many cases; whilst those receiving housing, but not food, were allowed, in 97 per cent, of cases, milk and vegetables, or grazing for one or more cows, and a garden. In 53 per cent, of cases meat was also s,upplie 1.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5368, 24 December 1928, Page 2
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192AGRICULTURAL WAGES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5368, 24 December 1928, Page 2
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