UNEMPLOYMENT.
TO THE EDITOR. £SIR, —Mr Sivortsen writes that wages commenced to rise 34 years ago. If that is so, it was not farm labour, as I worked at a threshing mill for 9d per hour, not 30 years ago, and we were uot satisfied unless we put through 40 bags an hour. Now 25 bags is about the limit. It cost 5d a bag to thresh oats then; it takes Is 3d to do it now, and Is lOd an hour is the wage paid to the mill hands, and the cost of feeding the men falls on the farmer, Yoir can supply Mr Sivertsen with my uame and address, and I will give him all the information he wants about farm labour, as I worked for wages until I could farm on my own account. —I am, etc.. Farmer No. 2.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21020, 8 May 1930, Page 14
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143UNEMPLOYMENT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 21020, 8 May 1930, Page 14
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