PLENTY OF WORK.
DEMAND FOR FARM LABOURERS. " Tho rain just experienced has caused a demand for farm labour (writes our Wairarapa correspondent). There is a large amount of fencing to be re-erected, and much grass seed' tJ bo sown, but farmers have had to hold oif this work during the drought, for' obvious reasons. In the dry weather there was no knowing when a rc-erected fence would again ba burnt'down; in addition, the ground was so hard that tho digging of post holes would hare been difficult; ana, finally, there was little or no water for gangs of men camping out. The rain has changed all these conditions, and Mr. W. Gillespie, a well-known labour agent, has just received word from' a remote station to'send in all the hands he could for grass seed sowing. There is also a demand for scrub-cutlers. Mr. Gillespie thinks that farm work will absorb a considerable amount of the unemployed labour this doming winter, but he states that the' men will have to have 6omc practical knowledge of the work. This statement refers to fencing principally, and the higher class of farm work. '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 155, 25 March 1908, Page 2
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189PLENTY OF WORK. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 155, 25 March 1908, Page 2
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