There is a shortage of bushmen in the Wanganui district, although the ruling rates are £1 a day and; "tucker." One veteran bushman (says the "Chronicle") ha.* contrasted the present Aposition with conditions of thirty years ago;, and said the majority of bushmen. or that' period regarded trorklaa an op-; portunity to accumulate a |"nesfc*gg*' : to buy a small farm. He said he was afraid that the present-day tendency was to accumulate just siifficient to go to the next race meeting.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17882, 1 October 1923, Page 2
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