HIS STRUGGLE.
FARMER'S STOEY IN COURT. A f.irmcr in the North Otago district, who was summoned in a maintenance case in llio Oamaru Polices Court last week, gave some of his experiences as v result of the drought. It had been the worst season, he said, ever experienced in that district. Mot one thing, buO everything, liad been* a failure, lie ha<i had to sell cows, which were worth £7, or £8 a head at the beginning of the season, for 10s. a head, which was junt the prico of the hide. He had been working sixteen hours a day, and was then unable to make ends meet. Thero were thousands of fanners with families in New Zealand at the present time who would have to live on £1 a week. For the last two years ho had been unable to pay wages to his son and daughter, who worked for him on the farm. Nou a farmer had made money in the Oamaru district this year. Many had been ruined, in fact. They had only had enough rain there lately to lay t-lio dust.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1110, 25 April 1911, Page 7
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185HIS STRUGGLE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1110, 25 April 1911, Page 7
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