(Correspondents’ opinions are not necessarily ours).
TO THB EDITOR. Sir, —In your report of the meeting of the Waimate Farmers’ Union Mr Stephen Boreham informed his hearers that working at his trade, horse cover making, he earned £3 per week of 48 hours, being paid at the rate of 9d per cover. To earn 10s per day (£3 per week), Mr Boreham would have to make over 13 covers a day of eight hours, an utt*rly impossible task for any man He further stated that the price was raised to 2s 3d per cover, so that if Mr Boreham still made 13 covers at 2s 3d daily he would earn the respectable wage of 29s per day of eight hours, or a weekly wage of £8 14a. Why d ies Mr Boreham persist in making such wild cat statements ? I robably, as Mr Clarke said, Mr Boreham doesn’t belitve half he ?ays ; at any rate we don't. Needles.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 245, 21 August 1902, Page 3
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158(Correspondents’ opinions are not necessarily ours). Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 245, 21 August 1902, Page 3
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