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The comment of Mr Justice Chap man on the fact that £1 a day seemed to be quite an ordinary wage for a working man in the Manawatu district has, according to a Palraerston paper, elicited the information that in numerous cases the earnings of even unskilled labour is considerably more. Recently a paddocker at a flaxmill drew the nice little sum of £567 for 35 weeks' work, which works out at £2 14s per day, if there were no work on Sundays.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 457, 14 March 1919, Page 1
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