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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17945, 24 November 1932, Page 11

Among the farmers who assembled at the Kaiti wharves this afternoon to participate in the loading of * meat into lighters, for transference to the Port Dunedin, were several prominent members of the rural community. Present also were several young men, the sous of farmers or cadets on farms, who were glad enough to get the chance of making extra money, as represented by the wages they were to draw for the afternoon and evening's work. The farmers’ organisations which arranged for the supply of labor were careful to use only bona fide country residents, and two or three men from the town area who

sought engagement were not taken on. ’The loading of the lighters was intended not merely as a demonstration of the farmers’ ability to take over the work, but also as a vindication of their right to handle their own produce through any stage of its journey to the marketing base, where other means of satisfactory handling wore lacking. Hence it was \jjjpt considered necessary or wise to emHffiv town labor, even if ample supplies had been available from non-union sources.