BOYS SCARCE.
Tiriie was, not so very long ago either, when the cry was heard through the land, "What shall we do with our boys?" Things have changed. The cry. now is, "Where are we to get 'the boys to do the wtirk offeringP" There may be differences of opinion as ito whether it is correct policy to offer inducements to male emigrants to fettle amongst lis because we may pot be able Jo provide sufficient work for them (says the Otago Daily Times) , but there can be ho two opinr iona that female labonr and hoy labour are genuinely, scarce, and it iaay also be granted that any male who isable and willing t>o take up work bn a farm, especially in the dairying districts, will be.eagerly snapped up by anxiously waiting employers. _ The gireat difficulty seems to. be to induce men to leave the comforts of oity life. If this could be done, there is any amount of work in the country, for some of our fanners have decided—in fact, have been practically compelled —to go out of certain profitable lines' of : production simply because they cannot get the necessary labour to carry on. In the city as well as in the country, boy labour is very scarce; There are more vacancies than there are applicants. ' , .
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 October 1913, Page 4
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218BOYS SCARCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 October 1913, Page 4
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