COST OF LABOUR COLONIES.
Experimenting in Finding Employment. (Received 5..39 a.m.) LONDON, March 10. 'OeftjWdent of the Local Government ward (Mr. John Burns) informed Sir F in repl - v l 0 " question that ■gr selling produce and reckoning the ""-f given to dependents, the weekly Bnli P | 6r ? an at lhp labollr colwv at ■Hollesler Bay was from 30y- to 42/- as compared_ with a local wage rate for agri--Wural labourers of 17/. We Holleslcy Bay farm colony i 5 run borfv - , Ham Briro "'rli Council—the fie Th m( ' d iw iU »«««»o« workW , raU ' of i ,a >" for -*--°«r on the STi yls froui 4d to d Der hour - *«» t irAa U week°Us a i/]'' W ° n generou *
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 69, 20 March 1908, Page 5
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