FARM WAGES
REDUCTION IN ASHBURTON COUNTY. run muss association. ASHBURTON, March 16. A definite tendency towards the reduction of wages for agricultural labour in Ashburton county is said to have set in. According "to local registry agents, whereas before the harvest a. weekly wage of £3 and found was offered for a six-horse teamster, the best now to he obtained is £2 10s. Farmers are showing a leaning towards getting on with less labour, and the cause, it is stated, is that they cannot afford to pay . out so much ready money when so little is coming in. The attitude of the farm worker has been, at first, not to take work at the lessened remuneration, but in many cases billets have finally been accepted at the lower rate. It is recognised that at the end of a Tew weeks when the threshing mills are paid off, labour will probably he in over-supply and this fact more than anything else makes the farm worker willing to accept the wages offering, before the anticipated shortage of employment in the winter.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10851, 17 March 1921, Page 5
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