EAST COAST NEWS.
WAIPIKO BAY . (Fium our own Correspondent.) The weather contimics to be very bad. It lias rained almost incessantly during the past week, resulting in flooded rivers and . the ruination of roads. Bushmen are a scarce commodity in the district this year. Settlers ire experiencing much difficulty in procuring men; in fact, I sincerely believe that, men will not be procurible to meet the demands. It is the way-back settler that will suffer. Although sheep-farmers are having a /cry prosperous time, they also have .heir difficulties. They want to “cut up” a goodly portion of their big ‘wool cheques,” but the scarcity of labor is acting as a preventive. The Waiapu County Council are in i fix for surface men, and with the present state of the elements, especially if there is a much further continuation of the same, it will take a fair niimhef of navvies to got the roads in order to make them passible during the winter months. It is ip to the Council to give a higher .ate, of wages. They cannot expect :o got men when they let the contractors heat them, by paying better wages.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2078, 13 May 1907, Page 3
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193EAST COAST NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2078, 13 May 1907, Page 3
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