UNEMPLOYMENT.
TO THE EDITOR. . Sivertseu implies in. answer to Farmer No, 2,” that the price of tam labour rose in sympathy with the rise in farm produce. As he stated a date when ( wages commenced to rise, I Will give him a few figures to show him that the price of farm labour is above the cost of production unless the farmer or his family does the work themselves, .thirty years ago the prices of farm ?£°f uc ® ve , re as follows:—Best bullocks. £7 to £9; best wethers, 10s to 17s; best lambs, 11s to 13s; best wheat, 2s 6d per bushel; oats, milling, Is 7d to Is 9d; potatoes, £2 12s 6d per ton; chaff, 40s to 52s per ton; butter, 6d to 9d per lb; cheese, 4d to fid per lb; bacon. 6d to Bd. these prices will show that it was not the increased value of farm produce that caused wages to _ rise, but other things that made the price of farm labour more than double what it used to be. Labour agitators, cannot tell the farmer his business, and if labour cannot be employed to show a profit, it is done without. —I am, etc -. Farmer No. 2.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21032, 22 May 1930, Page 10
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202UNEMPLOYMENT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 21032, 22 May 1930, Page 10
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