With all the fuss made now-a days about, shearers' accommodation, the men are really worse off than they were in the old days, when, if their shelter was rough, their food was wholesome. In the pioneer days men were largely fed on home-ground wheat meal which kept them in health. Now their diet consists of superfine flour, meat, pastry and pills, and they are more or less a sick lot.Fresh vegetables would do the shearers ten times as much good as the special accommodation which Inspectors claim for them, but fresh vegetables are not in the regulations. The Government claim credit for helping shearers—but really shearers were better off forty years ago than they are now.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8939, 13 December 1907, Page 4
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