RISE IN FARM HANDS’ WAGES
“Position Economically Unsound”
Dominion Special Service.
Danncvirke, January 20.
To-day’s meeting of the Southern Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Union, when attention was drawn in a circular from the Dominion executive to the fact that farm and station hands’ wages must be increased to the minimum amounts payable to dairy-farm workers, the president, Mr. J. Divingstone, remarked: —
“There is nothing we can do about it. Incomes will be down by 25 to 30 per cent, this year, but wages will be up. Our incomes are going down while our costs are continually rising. The whole position is economically unsound.”
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 99, 21 January 1938, Page 12
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