FARM LABOUR.
Sir,—l wish, to thank your correspondent “Experienced” for his comments, and in the main I quite agree with him. The point he has apparently overlooked, however, is that the Labour Department understood from friend “Drainer” that he only wanted first-class, experienced drain layers. The inquiry was not, I am told by the Labour Department, for willing workers prepared to learn. •If I understand "Experienced” correctly he infers that if a man uses his "nut” and has "savee” he should be able to carry out his work quite satisfactorily, even without experience. By way of comparison, supposing, “Experienced,” you as a farm labourer were unfortunate enough to be unemployed and a position for a first-class carpenter was available, do you think that by using your “nut” and “having a little savee” (that you suggest the local unemployed lack) you yvould qualify as a carpenter and be able to hold the job down?—l am, etc., P. E. STAINTON. . New Plymouth, April 24, 1930.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1930, Page 15
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