WORK IN WAIKATO.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17365, 29 March 1928, Page 9

WORK IN WAIKATO.

(To Hio JuliLor.) Sir, —In reply io "A.J.'JY’ re work iin Waikalo. because I here is no work | for married mm with children il does i not say llial lliere is no work for | single men. lam qiiile eonversanl wil.Ji I !he laid that married men wild two or ■ three rhildren are Ihe hardest lo place. ■ in I lie Waikalo, as there are very l'ew j married ploughmen or teamsters rei ipiired. Wind are reipiired are milkers, ! and when there are two or three small | rhildren il means that the wife lias | her hands full with, the rhildren and ; cannot leave them atone to go mil.king. j 1 wish to stale that during the present ! month I have placed more men on farms than I did in March I '.ido and lit'27 logelher. I always give Ihe married man preference wlmn Ihe wages are such as will keep him and family, j Wlial abou! Ihe single lorry-drivers employed in the lawns by Ihe different ! firms These pbsilions could he tilled j by married men .just as well, if not i heller, and would relieve Ihe ratepayers. Also I am cerlain that there I are more ivtMTied men out of employj men I than single, in Ila mill on, and iI. ! lias always been my rule not lo give single nnm .jobs in town when a marI ried man can till Ihe hill. I coiilend ! llial Mr Jordan's i.M.I’.) slalemenl is j mil eori'erl when he slab's there is no j work offering on farms in Waikalo.—■ | I am, el <•., ! bAlhiri; ACK.XT.