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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 71, 22 March 1912, Page 6

In a private letter received from a friend in Vancouver, it is stated that the Canadian summer has been a bad one and the winter has set in early. The result Jβ that there -were, when the mail left, millions of bushels of Canadian wheat still on the stalk, and the stalks were covered with snow, the prospects of completing the harvest being very gloomy indeed. The season is considered the most severe that has been experienced for many yeare past, and the agricultural outlook is causing grave anxiety. It will thus be seen that New Zea land farmers, with all their troubles, might be worse off were they located in other lands.

A Riversdale (Southland) fanner vent in search of a man to help with the harvesting. He engaged a man after a good deal of persuasion, and started to drive him to his new location. The man soon complained that he was being taken too far away from the township and aaked to be let down. The farmer drove on more rapidly, keeping the horse going smartly, and turning a deaf ear to ths man's requests. Determined to escape, the man leaped from the trap, sustaining some painful abrasions as his face came in contact with the road. Picking himself tip he set out on foot to wajk back to the township which he had lef:, leaving the farmer to drive homeward alone. This will illustrate the difficulties experienced in obtaining farm labour in Southland.