The depression in the sheep-raising industry in the Poverty Bay district had affected the drovers very seriously, stated their representative, IVfr C. E. Mickford. at the Arbitration Court, at Auckland. Not only were many farmers doing their own' droving, but some young farmers were doing work for other farmers at very Tow rates. Mr Mickford considered this competition witli regular drovers was unfair, as the. farmers, having their farms at their back, were not wholly dependent en droving fees.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3148, 18 December 1922, Page 7
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