"Black Labour."
The following" poem'' was picked up yesterday and handed to us for publication;— Opaki's going to the flogs and ruins, But who's to blame ? .Why simply the Cook. . eys and their doings | They like to have all their own way, And out the wages down and simply says
"It men won't work for fifteen bob aweak, We will pay them out; • blaok labour' for ■>■■■%, ■ their cheek;': !: ■ • v : :-ito They will work from daylight until dark ; -£f . anyhow, - • ;■•. .-.,:..- . Falling bush, growing spuds, and they can /Mm •■- plOUgh." •;-:.! ■'::.. . :. ; ,.A '-'■''CiS^S Such isthe cry' we.bave to' bearah'dflgejrt All right dear Cookeys, yon :; what's best; "'•■'•::■•.' : ' But I/am hoihitling at all of the Only a certain pirty .who isJpiitttDglff^a^p^ lam a rongVani sort, nji§ fit'|« S^S^^S Blaok l»bbur.Von't'dojor^
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4851, 15 October 1894, Page 2
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125"Black Labour." Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4851, 15 October 1894, Page 2
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