‘Can you give me a lift?” asked a. young swagger of a motorist in a New Plymouth suburb (states the Taranaki Daily News). Inquiry showed he was padding the hoof ” to Wellington, “Can’t you get work in Taranaki? ” asked the motorist. “No; there is no opening here, nor in Auckland,” he replied. “ But the farmers are advertising for hands every day in the Ngws, and cannot get them.” “I’m a bricklayer; not a farm hand,” the swasrger replied. “ But why not tackle anything that is going? ” »aid the motorist. “Yes: I will, but not farming.” The swagger was typical of others.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3958, 21 January 1930, Page 49
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