FARM LABOUR.
(Special Correspondent). WELLINGTON, Jan. 12. Reports from all parts of the North Island tend to confirm the statement of the secretary of the Agricultural and Pastoral Union that there is a great dearth of fa ran labour in this part of the Dominion. The fact that there are about twenty harvesters on the boolts of the Labour Bureau, however, is quoted by one of the local newspapers as "pointing another way." There are also, it seems, five men requiring employment in Auckland,, three farm labourers out of work at Timaru, and four names on the books of the Labour, Bureau at Dunedhi. When these facts were communicated to the secretary of the union this morning he greeted them with a broad smile. "I should like 'to see those three farm labourers iu Timaru," he said. If they are competent men and can be spared from one of the largest agricultural districts in the Dominion, let them come along and I will find them a job inside ten minutes.""
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 15 January 1917, Page 3
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