LABOR IN THE NORTH ISLAND.D
tke Editor of ' The Observer.'
• Siß^ltis -very amusing- to read newspaper | ; paragraphs about the cry put for labor m the j North Island; '. Do those whip' circulate, these imagine; that we do not know how. to. ! write a letter or telegram ; it so, here is the I latest from- an Oxford bushman: — ''The. r highest. price for thoroughly under-scrubbing : add falling veryfteavy bush, £2 10s per acre $. , the lowest ior light tawa bush, 15s per acre ; < tucker (barring n/eat), 30 pier cent dearer than . : m Ganterbnry. ' -' '' The Kangitikei farming d.is-.' '; trict ia of small area ; binder's are " used, and I a d6zen' smart men, added to what they have got,- would r do' all the sfcooking and pitching ; ! cockies * pretty poor, and prompt settlements i doubtful J A man might clear six notes at : harvest— 'that's about the outside."' A settled . laborer going -from here to the Northern har--1 vest, would, have a debit balance- of about £10; on his return. : i ;;<;• . •■■■; Yours, &c, • : ■■ : ■■■'■- : .. ; ; 5 ,•;.;.; : ; ; . ' COGNOSCO.
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Oxford Observer, Volume 1, Issue X, 19 October 1889, Page 5
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