FAAM LABOUR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 1 March 1918, Page 7

FAAM LABOUR.

"AW' hava had to depend upon boy labour to a considerable extent on the farm for a year or two. ami as the wa!• progresses that kii'd of lahour is becoming more common," stfitcs "R'.ist ions'' in the Lyttdtoa 'ij i* i t\s. •"Women. n lit I girls. too, are doing more outdoor ivnri; limn they It.'.vo born :k customed to especially now that liii' harvest- is in progress. Kvci: in the harvest paudodc on-' sees some of the stooking done by girls, while they are (hanging horses in ot'Jioi - instances and helping to build the stacks. A fair anumut o!' i-heep work has also been done, particularly during tli dmribmg season. In some "ly (luring Lite lambing season. liisomej the women helped during tlic shearing. ISid bo",« have (i 11 id llie place or the men to a iartr.e extent, and the r< suits are proving to lie varied. Where the. boys have boon brought up on the farm and where tliey are vol king lor their fathers, at for being to do odd jobs a I odd times for years, good work is heir<g done, equal to that of many leen. Some of the boys wbo have '■o]iie oi;l of the schools *o help during 111e holidays have given sat is lactic.; and have earned good cheques fairly and honestly. They have had a pica; aid, if a busy, time in the eemitry, ami the chances arc that sonic of them will take to the country life after they have left school. On.- hears every day of cases where these boys have earned a good name IVv Ihomse'lyes.."