HARVEST HANDS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10258, 29 January 1894, Page 3

HARVEST HANDS.

TO THE EDITOE. Sib,' —Relative to your correspondence anent harvest, I beg to assert that I can, at tima of writing, obtain within one hoar in the town of Ashburton, one hundred good hands, not loafers. Further, one who ought to know has just told me that the state of affairs at Methven is the same. From Eakaia and outlying districts the same miserable tale is told. Some men to whom I have spoken have been advised by labour bureaus to come to Ashburton, for man are wanted. Paaa them on, that is the game. Strong, healthy men, anxious for work, and here they are, strangers from all parfcs—-a regular cereal Pentecost—and this while local men are anxious to obtain work themselves. Your Ashburton correspondent ought to take a moonlight stroll amongst the flax and toi-toi, and sea the men camping there without tents—a flax stick poked through a wire fence and a blanket hung upon it. If that does nob satisfy him, he had better take a spin up the Winchmoraßoad, and take tally of the men ho meets and passes.. Please do not bolster us up to believe there is work for all. There is not now, and what will happen during winter ?—I am, &0., SIOOKER.