Sheepfarmer’s Difficulties
Labour difficulties he was experiencing on his sheep station were described by a sheepfarmer, Mr. L. G. D. Aclan'd, in an appeal to the Christchurch Man-power Committee for Allen Richards, shepherd and rnuslerer. “I have a manager who is too old to get over the country,, a head shepherd who has been called up in December for whom 1 intend to appeal, an under-shepherd who is flat-footed, whom I expect will be permanently unfit. There is also a cowboy.” The appelient said that his station, a mile from Lake Wakatipu, was of 20,000 acres. lie carried from 9000 to 10,000 sheep. Richards, the committee decided, would not enler camp before June 1.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20620, 22 November 1941, Page 6
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114Sheepfarmer’s Difficulties Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20620, 22 November 1941, Page 6
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