Eleven of a family, all doing well—this is an immigrant family which should not be greatly displeased with the dominion (says the Post). The father, a bricklayer’s plasterer, earns 14s a day; one son, a labourer, earns 8s to 10s a day; another son. apprenticed to an engineer, is, paid 12s fid a week, and two daughters earn 7s fid a week each in the woollen mills. Other members of the family are not yet of a working age, but they propose tc do some pleasant and profitable labour in the summer time by going hop-picking in Nelson
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Otago Witness, Issue 3103, 3 September 1913, Page 36
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98Untitled Otago Witness, Issue 3103, 3 September 1913, Page 36
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