UNEMPLOYMENT AND FARMING.
We read such a lot about the cities these days, yet in the country farmers could do with extra labour, u finds that the unemployed mail is an pendent "guy"; he wants his 16/ a "*•' ... no work. One wonders what has k ec °® the "swagger." I suppose he also is s about the towns reading the ads. tor a day job. A few years ago two < 9 - J "swaggers" a day would call at the ask for work, and, generally would be p to, do .odd jobs for ten shillings a weeK meals. We have had men—mostly for three weeks and a month at a j they dug the garden, cut jfche wood, s drains, trapped rabbits and fished a pleasant time working in their-own ■ industrious man took away three h bit skins besides his wages ot J- I . and was well pleased, while we wei |2 but now these "guys" a week and keep. No wonder there unemployment. LIVE AND LET
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 173, 24 July 1930, Page 6
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