“For an ounce of gold, about £4 ss, a German worker gives on an average 205 hours of labour, a French worker 110 hours, a British worker SO hours, au American worker 50 hours, and a New Zealand worker 47v( hours,” remarked Mr IV. J. Poison, dominion president of the Farmers’ Union, at the conference at Palmerston North. “There would not be a farmer not bankrupt in New Zealand if they all had lost heart,” said a speaker at the Taranaki Meat Company’s reconstruction meeting recently.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3612, 5 June 1923, Page 42
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