JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.
. An example of a cross-examiner getting aa unexpected answer was experi-enced-at the-Arbitration Court yeat-or-day morning during tho hearing of the "'threshJne mill workers' dispute. Asked by Mr U. Evans if ho did not think that it was easier to thresh from the ttook than from tho stack, tho witness (a Maori> remarked: "It is easier from the M.ook on account' of the farmers' -Mcn —tlic.v won't exert themselves. (Laughter.) And they won't make the pace: they got Is 3d' an hour and found, and wo get Is 3d an hour without found."
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14956, 1 May 1914, Page 9
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