HIGH WAGES FOR HARVESTERS.
The supply of farm labourers in Kansas was last month still insufficient to meet the demands for the harvest. Farmers were offering 10s to 16s a day, with board, and were- unable to get men. Thousands were still needed. A passenger train in- Rush County was Rtopped by a number of desperate farmers, who' displayed a danger signal. On the train halting, they entered the cars and made frantic appeals for harvesters. Twenty students' of Harvard , University, who were travelling to Colorado on a hunting trip, accepted an offer of 14s a, day, and got off the train. . At Russell, ten negroes offered themselves by public auction for harvest work, and were secured by a farmer fot 16s a day. Another negro was hired for 24s a day.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7800, 3 September 1903, Page 3
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