FARM HOLIDAYS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43330, 26 May 1908, Page 1

FARM HOLIDAYS.

Dealing, the question! of holidays for farm and station hands, ; Mr Acland remarked at the Conciliatioh Board at Christchurch that those demanded "'by the Farm Labourers’ Union did not suit either the employers or the men. He knew that on ,some,,back stations the ph wanted to shear on Christand they would shear on Sundays if they were allowed. In -Queensland they had practically compelled the bosses to let them shear on Sundays, and the same applied in New Zealand, though not to the same extent. A holiday was little use to a man thirty or forty miles away from anywhere, and he hesfd pf ipen spending a holiday in poaching paradise ducks or damming a creek for eels. As to the allegation thajt; a weekly half-holiday was necessary,so that the men should do their washing on Saturday instead of Sunday, he .dismissed it as an agitator’s excuse; probably the men would play cards on the Saturday half-holiday, and continue the practice of doing their washing on Sundays.