Abstract

Hence, at the outset, I shall point to the common complaint that here in south Australia, whose national wealth is mainly drawn from rural enterprises, competent farm hands when called for are practically not to be had; and I shall add that the complaint is well grounded on fact. But under-present circumstances, how indeed could it be otherwise? It is only long practice, life's work, that can confer any satisfactory degree of manual efficiency; and how can we look for it among the lacklands, when ninety-nine hundredths of the farm work of the country is carried out by the landowners them- selves? This is not the recital of a grievance, but a statement of fact, for which general economic conditions can all alone be held responsible.

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