WORK ON FARMS
Sir, —In answer to Mr. Howard Boyd re the farm worker, 1 would like to tell him that he is one in 1000 that has concrete paths to walk on from the main home, a built-in wardrobe, sheets to sleep in, etc. I regret to say that all the places I have been to I have never struck that yet. Howard Boyd wants to get about the country a bit more and he will see some of the accommodation that the farm worker has to put up with. I have stopped on places from one year to five years and have always done my best for the employer, and met him more than halfway, and even then I was not able to get a bath to have a bath in, have had to have a bath in the cowshed in a bucket and my wife has had to do the same.' We went to one place and the living quarters were appalling, all there was in it was a stove, it did not even have match lining walls, the pigsties were not two chains away. Of course, we did not stay there very long. And as for using a nom-de-piume, why should anyone fall out with his employer by signing his name. Bay of Plenty. A Worker.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22405, 29 April 1936, Page 17
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220WORK ON FARMS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22405, 29 April 1936, Page 17
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