New Zealand Beef.
Comment has been occasioned in England by a curious comparison of the labor equivalent of a fat bullock in England and in New Zealand, which has been worked out by a farmer here. Supposing the dead weight of a bullock to be 7001b5., he says it could be sold in Englann at fully 6d per lb, or for £l7 10s in all, paying Is 6d a day far a labourer for 140 days; while in New Zealand it would be sold at 16s per 1001b, or at £5 12s, sufficient to pay the current wages for a farm labourer for only 184- days, while a dinner in addition would have to be provided daily for the colonial workman.
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Hastings Standard, Volume IV, Issue 13, 11 May 1899, Page 4
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121New Zealand Beef. Hastings Standard, Volume IV, Issue 13, 11 May 1899, Page 4
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