FARM AND DAIRY.
•A fanner informed a. representative of Hi.. Southland News roomily thai labor js verv scarce just now, ami Hint he knew'of a niimlitr of tillers of the soil who are retarded in their operations on this account. Ditchers are badly wanted, lint unobtainable, the wages oil em! hems 7s a day. He staled that C'l.m.imon ar« being employed on farms only some twenty miles from fnvcroargill, „nil tliat, though tliev have not Hie |lllYS i,,„e of 0.0 Kuropean they give satisfactory service lor the 5s a day U. Y receive mid out (if which they have In I pay for their keep. Their 5s a day means 30s a week, wot or dry, the Celestial refusing to have any reduction made on account of unfavoraW" weather.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 14, 10 February 1909, Page 3
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129FARM AND DAIRY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 14, 10 February 1909, Page 3
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