EMPLOYMENT ON FARMS
INCREASE IN DEMAND EXPERIENCE AT HASTINGS [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] HASTINGS, Saturday An increase in the demand for employment on farms is reported by the proprietor of q. Hastings labour agency. Wages had improved materially, he said, and the general standard of accommodation, which was admittedly often bad, had risen. It appeared that men were beginning to realise the financial benefits that accrued from being out of town, and therefore away from the temptation to spend money unnecessarily. v As an indication of an increased demand for farm work, he mentioned that lately a farmer had received 20 replies to an advertisement for a junior shepherd, by which was meant a young man who wanted to learn shepherding or knew very little about it. Ploughmen and fencers were much in demand and there seemed to be no shortage of available men at present. Youths and married couples, however, were not quite so ready to take up farm work, though there was plenty of scope at quite good wages.
The greatest shortage in the labour market way domestic labour for positions both in the town and in the country.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22398, 20 April 1936, Page 10
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