A comment of Mr Justice Chapman on the fact that £1 a day seemed to be quite’ an ordinary wago for a working man in tho Manawatu district, lias elicited the information that in numerous cases the earnings of even unskilled labor is considerably moro. Recently a paddockor at a flaxmill drew the nice little sum of £576 for 35 weeks’ work, which works out at £2 14a per day, if there was no yvork on Sundays.— Levin ‘ Chronicle.’
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Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 123, 13 March 1919, Page 2
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