The shortage of farm labour in Otago is not so acute as in the north, where most of the distress is associated with dairy farming, which is not carried out to any great extent near Dunedin, as most dairy farmers are also interested in some other phase of farming. A inamber of the Otago Farmers’ Union said that the trouble was that young fellows did not want work on farms. They could obtain a five-day week on public works at rates of pay that farmers could not give. Moreover, public works were setting a standard of wages that other industries had to follow, and work that offered better money and also allowed of a certain amount of free time to the worker was more attractive than farming.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1939, Page 7
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