THE EIGHT HOURS' SYSTEM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sir, —In addition to what is said by my neighbor, Mr. Parnell, X would state that from the beginning of 1844 to the end of 1856 I had occasion to employ much European labor on our mission station at New Plymouth ; but I never required more than seven hours a day (which was better still), except in harvest time, when the men were paid for overwork. The rate of wages at that time was but small—half-a-crown a day—and I always thought that seven hours of easy work were quite sufficient for the money, in 1840, “in the Kawhia and Waikato districts, we used to pay the Maoris one fig of tobacco a day, and quite enough too, for they would squat and smoke for half the time, and lounge away the rest.—l am, &c.,
H. Hanson Tcrton. Ghuznee-street, February 21. ■
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5277, 22 February 1878, Page 2
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152THE EIGHT HOURS' SYSTEM. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5277, 22 February 1878, Page 2
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