CORRESPONDENCE. THE HARRIET. SHRINKAGE OF LABOUR.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1918, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE HARRIET.

SHRINKAGE OF LABOUR.

To the Editor. Sir, —On perusing a paragraph in your columns, supplied by a gentleman down the coast, informing you that To WMti, the father of To Wlviti, who has lately been in the limelight, was a ohief in 1834, when a shipwreck took place and he (Te Whitd) made an eloquent speech advising that the shipwrecked, folks be not ill-treated, etc., I thinlc it something marvellous to tMnk that a child of six (Te Whiti'B age then) could be a ehief and make suoh an eloquent speech. Why, the ordinary precocious infant prodigy is Hot in it in comparison. WJiy, Mr." B. Wells, in Ms history, on page 19, Bays that it was the fijarriot that was wrecked, and that many of the shipwracked were killed and Mrs. Guard and two children taken prisoners, and that in those days there was no settlement in this district. Yet, your informant says the shipwrecked people were handed over to the civil and military authorities. It appears that we have all got something to learn.—'l aim., etc., HANNAH WOODS. ITevv Plymouth, May 2.

To the Editor. Sir, —Therehus been a lot of talk since this awful war re the shortage of labour, tlio more so as regards our sp called farmers. They are the very first to cry ous. Now, let us analyse their action. "Soma short time ago there wag a new dairy factory built at Herford Road. Even t'ho chairman of that factory was working there as a coimuon labourer, and I don't know how many more fanners. Now there is another factory being built at Omata. All the coekies for miles around are looking for a joib; in facft, they are all farmers that are work'ing there as laibourers. Now where does the shortage of labour ooane in? The farmers have always been the first to squeal. Does it not seein strange that they can afford to leave their farms every day? Of course they don't work there for nothing.—l ami, etc., PAOEIOT. Hew Plymouth, May 27-