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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 225, 16 June 1908, Page 8

WHERE, OH WHERE?

: 4 —: , WORK FOR FARM LABOURERS. A farm labourer, eager for employment but from experience not sanguine of obtaining it, 'called-at The Dominion Oflico yesterday after reading the Hon. R. M'Nab's breezy assurance to a Southern • interviewer that "farm labourers are required in every part of New Zealand."' This man had bet;n searching for three days to find a place where ono farm labourer was required, and his quest had been unsuccessful. . It occurred to him that the.newspaper, which had printed Mr. M'Nab's general statement of tho glowing prospects open to farm labourers,' might bo able to provide, presumably from unpublished further statements of Mr. M'Nab, a few specific instances of places whero those, prospects'might be sought. The man was young, vigorous, and prepossessing in appearance, Experienced in every branch of farm life, able to turn his hand to many things -besides. AVith, a good hack under him he had gone from one farm billet to another, covering a district with a radius of some 40 miles, during tho last six months; and, with a little difficulty, had always been able to find employment. But now, he declared, the season for most farm work was at an end, and there was absolutely no opening for farm labourers. Harvesting, ploughing, harrowing, and grassseeding wore all over, there was not much fencing to be done, and not much dairying, owing to tho shortage of grass; nothing was doing in tho sheep line, and bush-felling in the winter required a stronger frame than ho posessed. He had been to tho Labour Department, and tho only employment it could offer him was on the Hutt railway duplication works, or drain-laying on the Main Trunk railway route. Tho drain-laying required export skill. He had been offered a position in September, but it was necessary that he, should livo till then. As a last resource, ho would bo willing to'fall hack on tho duplication works, but it would please him bettor to have somo specific information with regard to all those openings for farm labourers. ' .