SCARCITY OF PLOUGHMEN.

Southland Times, Issue 19657, 6 October 1922, Page 2

SCARCITY OF PLOUGHMEN.

To the Editor. Sir.—l see by your paper (hat, there is a scarcity of ploughmen in Southland at the present time. It is a wonder to me that there arc any ploughmen at all, when I see the wages offering. Now sir, in case you don’t know it, a ploughman is a very’ valuable member of society. He is generally a muscular and a brainy person. I say generally, but I mean always, because a man not possessing these qualifications cannot be, a ploughman, and nobody knows it better than a farmer. Yet he has tjie check, or rather impudence, to offer 30s a week to the brainiest and hardest working men in the country and still he expects to get men. No doubt they plead hard up, and all rest of it, but I never saw a farmer giving £lO a week to a ploughman when he was making a hundred pounds a week himself, or rather, the said ploughman was making it for him. I am, etc., ONE OF THE WELL PAID. Te Tua, October 4.