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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 31 March 1908, Page 4

' A witness before, tho Conciliation Board/at Darfield gavb somo of his experiences with non-efficient farm labourers, says, tho Christchurch "Press."' Que man, he stated, would not havo.'boon - profitable, tb .him if lie had kept him on at ss. per week. Another mail that ho was employing; at tho samo tiino was boing paid'27s. Gd. per week and found, and for ■ this wage ho put up the ,fol lowing • oxtraI ordinary performance Loft to do' some feiiCr ing, ho put,in;- in 0110 day,, tlireo'posts/arid strained,ono wire; next day ho put in a';few stakes ,and strained three wires:-011 another occasiou lio'had to take four horses to a paddock to work them ,in a'plough, but did ,not think of Coupling them together.; /Tlie- result was that two of tlio horses went one way and tlio other two in an opposito direction and it-took twenty minutes/to reach the paddock, in plaoo of ton. When tho witness told tho. man "that ; ho was not satisfied with his work the man offered tb stay, pn iit:2osper week, but witness told him that ho seldom rediicPd' wages, and/told; him'-that-he must go. ''I reckon," • added the witness," "that tho timo I had theso two men'l was £15-out of pocket,, having to watch them and not getting the work done." " . ' ■