“No Encumbrances.”

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1404, 27 January 1914, Page 6

“No Encumbrances.”

Complaints are still being made in Australia of the sue of those shameful \vords, “No encumbrances,” by em-.-ployers who want “married couples” on farms and tations. The of the I ondon “Times,” Ivho drew attention to this matter in v series of letters three years ago, ltate< in an article published recenty ■fit families are still “cruel hardships” ih sdme pars of the Commonwealth. he says, “is the profcefnof co tages for rnarriea farmlands. The small farmer says, often ir.ily enough,that he cannot afford it [and he is certainly so exploited by the jdtlleman (as a Royal Commissioner lin the State has just been pointing lout) that he does not get much more ihan a living out of his produce as it "is., But the e are quite enough big dandownen to set an example, "and to iteorh-all the families likely to be Baailable\ for some years.” The Bpespon lent adds that the problem ian be attached at its root by “the importation on a large scale ox boys, mo|matter from what source, so long pt hefy are considered by experienced ||iysicians capable of being built ap mith goocTfood and good tra ning 4nto nd hard y ( ounfcry-folk. ’ ’ The Boys willl ‘see to it that families and Bo.nef for them are provided when the ■the < o.no: : . ’ But in the rneantime man on the spot ne*eds