FARM LABOUR WANTED
SHORTAGE IN WAIKATO SETTLER'S URGENT NEED REMARKABLE PARADOX [from our ows correspondent] HAMILTON, Thursday The experience of a well-known Orini farmer, in his efforts to secure labour, was narrated to a Herald representative to-day. He said that he had advertised for a married couple and a single farm hand, offering £2 10s a week and a free cottage to the married couple and 25s a week and found in a good home to the single man. Apart from the advertising, he had been in touch with labour agencies, but his efforts had been unsuccessful. Two applicants had promised to meet him, but had failed to keep the appointment. The farmer milks 200 cows, and ho urgently requires labour. Ho paid £7OO to share-milkers last season, and stated that they received more out of the farm than he did. He says he is at a loss to understand the paradox that exists in New Zealand where there are many thousands unemployed and at the same time an acute shortage of farm labour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22183, 9 August 1935, Page 13
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