CONTRACT FOR GORSE GRUBBING.
The average city man is not up in the matter of manual labour, and has very crude ideas indeed regarding the amount of sweat involved in agricultural pursuits. The other day (says Christchurch Truth'x Wellington correspondent) a citizen advertised for tenders for grubbing twenty acres of gorse, and received a shoal of replies, the prices asked ranging from £455 to £8! He accepted the £8 tender, and the two young men who s.ent it in called on him, armed themselves with grubbers, and set out to. slay the gorse in short order. The owner of the land said £8 was an absurd price, and that he would give them £20. Accordingly they set to work one morning, and in the afternoon they called on the owner and announced that they had blisters on their hands, and that they would not grub the gorse for £100,000. They are not hankering after agricultural pursuits any longer.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8097, 23 March 1905, Page 3
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158CONTRACT FOR GORSE GRUBBING. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8097, 23 March 1905, Page 3
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