"Some of the immigrants by "the Suffolk," says au Adelaide report, "when offered lls a day. as stonemasons arid carpenters, could not get the idea out of their heads that the lls referred to a week's pay." If this is so, what sort 1 of mental fibre is possessed by the pre-sent-day new chums. Only that the same yarn was told fifty years ago, one would iw inclined to laugh.
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NZ Truth, Issue 179, 21 November 1908, Page 5
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