THE FARM WORKER
Sir, —I think your correspondent Mr. V. Howard Boyd cannot have been employed on many farms other than the one on which he is now. This appears to be an exceptionally good one, otherwise he might have had quite a different tale to tell. Even the Minister of Employment has stated that to his knowledge the living conditions for working men on some of the dairy farms are deplorable. Mr. Howard Boyd has said that he has yet to meet the farm worker who has had to sleep on sacks. Probably there are a few treated with every respect, as he says ; but I have yet to meet the farm worker who has had white sheets to sleep on. For my own part, and 1 have worked on a good many farms throughout New Zealand, I have never yet been supplied with blankets or with pillows either, and in only a rare case a hard flax mattress to sleep on. Since farmers find it very hard to get men to put up with that style of living they are probably wakening up to the occasion. Alex. Boyd.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22399, 21 April 1936, Page 13
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