East Coast farmers employing casual labour for topdressing are unable to obtain men for “less than £1 a day and their tucker,” as one prominent local sheepowner put it. “They are not interested in anything less, and will not look at the work,” he said. “It is a ridiculously high wage especially when fertiliser costing £4 17/6 at the works cannot be landed at under £7 a ton in Tokomara Bay.” There is a shortage of casual labour for farms, and even business firms are finding it difficult to get assistants from the cities. When they do succeed the men seldom stay long in the country.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 11
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