FARM LABOURERS WANTED.
Employment for 156 men was obtained by the local Labour Department during the past four weeks, but of this number only 30 were farm hands. There is a dearth in the supply of farm labourers, and daily the officers of the department receive requests from farmers for them. One agriculturist, during the past few days, has bombarded the office with ■ reply-paid telegrams, declaring he will meet the train and convey the labourer to his scene of employment if the depal tment will but only send him. This morning the officers secured a man and duly despatched him. Out of the large batch 6f passengers who arrived by the Ruahino only six enquired at the office for information. They were much-desired farm hands, but v-vere booked for South. There is no available colonial labour for farmers at present, and the department is forced to await the arrival of Home boats to fill positions. One farmer declares that he has not known labour to ' be so scarce during the past 24 years.
Tomorrow is last discount day at the Wairarapa • Farmers' Co-operative Association, Lambton-quay, Customers plowe note, — Advt.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 95, 19 October 1910, Page 7
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189FARM LABOURERS WANTED. Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 95, 19 October 1910, Page 7
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