LABOURERS' ACCOMMODATION.
A VERY BAD CASE. A Methven farmer who was prosecuted, recently for a breach of the Shearers' and Agricultural Labourers' Accommodation Act, has agreed to make improvements in accordance with the views, of the Labour Department. The provision for the labourers on the farm seem to have been particularly bad. It was stated by witnesses that several whares were provided for the men, but they were small, rough and dirty. One used by two men as a bedroom consisted of a wooden frame covered with canvas, with sacks at the sides. The dftiingroom was devoid of means oi obtaining light, and had no fireplace, there were no sanitary conveniences, the floors were springy, patched and rotten, and some of the walls had been repaired with old tin. The inspector of awards stated that the accommodation war. the worst he had ever seen. The magistrate, after hearing the evidence, said that he had no hesitation in saying that the accommodation was improper, that the huts, which wore mere hovels, were not fit to live in, and that some means of providing .water for drinking, apart from the water-race, which might be used by horses and dogs, and other animals, should be found.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 11 April 1911, Page 5
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203LABOURERS' ACCOMMODATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 11 April 1911, Page 5
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