THE FARM WORKER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 290, 7 December 1937, Page 6

THE FARM WORKER.

I get tired of hearing of the wrongs of the poor farmer and nothing about the farm worker, who works 12 and 14 hours a day in all weathers and gets very little pay. A share milker does all the work and gets a third share—quite good if he is lucky and gets a good herd, but it is not so easy to get the payable herd. Even the beet does not bring in good wages. We hear of women and children being sent to the sheds. Always in tie farming history of New Zealand the women have gone into the sheds, and always wflL If it were not for the women there woujd be very little farming in New Zealand, ae they do most of the shed work. We are hearing great sympathy expressed for farmers by some : members in the House, especially by oar Opposition members. I t would like to suggest that these members should come to the rescue of the poor farmer and take up jobs on farms and so show their sympathy in a really practical way. " FARM HAND.