FARMERS AND BAD TIMES.
A WORD FOB THE WORKERS. (To the Editor.)
Sir, —I trust I may impose on your space to reply to Mr. Ross. As for the burdens and taxes the poor farmers have to carry, I notice the majority of them ean run about in a £5OO motor car several days a week. They say the farmers are the back-bone of New Zealand—well, it would be a pretty poor sort of a fish if that was all it had for a backbone, the cry from the farmers is they are up against it just. now. How would they like to be up against it always like a worker? No, in my opinion the working man who brings up a large family is the back-bone of a country, instead of a few farmers who begin to cry poverty as soon as wool or meat drops a few pence, instead of getting to work and employing more labour and getting more out of their land. The wages they pay is only a starvation wage -anyway. Station wages average about 35s a week; men find their own blankets, but get the food they eat —in all roughly about £2 15s a week average wage. Thanking you again for your space.—l am, etc., “FAIR PLAY.” Masterton, March 9.
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Wairarapa Age, 11 March 1927, Page 5
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217FARMERS AND BAD TIMES. Wairarapa Age, 11 March 1927, Page 5
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