TEN SHILLINGS A WEEK

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 32, 8 February 1922, Page 2

TEN SHILLINGS A WEEK

FOR WORK ON A FARM.

Recently it was stated in the House of Representatives by a Cabinet Minister that any amount of work was to bs obtained in the countiy if men wguld only leave the towns to look for it. In tins connection, Mr. A. Cook (acting-secre-tary to the New Zealand Workers' Union), stated to a Post reporter that a young man, desirous of leaving the town placed an advertisement in a 'Southern, newspaper, asking for work on a farm. Tug reply he received was as follows: — "Dear Sir,—ln reply to your advertisement, I have a vacancy for a. young manMy trms are 10s a week and found. I will teach him all I can, but the conditions are that he stays until after the harvest. He will get team work during, the harvest, and if you stay twelve months I would teach you team work. I hay« hud a lot of young men under me and some of them have purchased farmi »f their own and done well. I way state'H am batching, but you would be in* too cottage with mo. Kindly reply earliest as I have several other applications of you don't want the job. My mail comes out Mondays and Thursdays, so if you answer this Sunday, I will get it on Monday." „ "No wonder men won t leave towns, remarked Mr. Cook in oommont-uig on the letter, "whan the best that is offered for a farm job is 10s a week."