Reminiscences of Past.
The livestock of the Dominion of Canada includes 59,298,200 poultry, 8,819,600 cattle, 4,138,600 swine, 3,370,100 sheep, and 2,918,540 horses. “Wages in those days were 6s per day, there were no metalled roads, and when the cart came to deliver the bread it was difficult to tell whether the horses were bay, chestnut or black, for they were always the same colour —yellow,” said Mr T. Burkett at Kaimata, Taranaki, giving reminiscences of the early pioneering days. Today, he said, they had wages at 16s per day, good roads, and bread delivered in motor .vans, but bread was now Is 2d a loaf, compared with 6d in the early days, so how were they better off?
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1938, Page 2
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118Reminiscences of Past. Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1938, Page 2
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