THE FORTY-HOUR WEEK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22911, 19 June 1936, Page 18

THE FORTY-HOUR WEEK

TO THE EDITOR. Silt, —Your correspondent, “ Experienced,” is teaching hie grandmother to suck eggs. I would ask him if he would apply the 40 hours a week in the lambing season. It is said that a lic-in-bed shepherd is worse than none. Farming is governed by the weather, and in the harvest time, if the employee knocked off at 5 o’clock, the farmer himself would take the binder and work until it was dark. The farmers who are having the good times of which “ Experienced ” writes must be those who bought their land from the Crown at 10s an acre, not those who bought their land in the boom time, and have to face the reduction in value owing to the slump of at least £5 per acre. Some have lost all they put.into their farms. I have only been 00 years at the job, and the scythe was before my time, but I tied sheaves behind a back-delivery reaper for many years. I have never heard any farmer yet who agree# with the guaranteed prices of the present Government. They would prefer a free market.—I am. etc.. Farmer.