Less-skilled building workers, such as thatchers and daubers, also worked in teams.
The one relates to the occupation of hedgers and thatchers, and the other to that of mole-catchers.
I have not heard that the building licensing regulations have caused any difficulty to thatchers.
I realise that the large increase in the acreage of land under cereals calls for additional skilled thatchers.
There is a great difficulty in getting experienced hedgers, ditchers, thatchers, men who can make hurdles, men of that class.
I have already drawn the attention of county war agricultural executive committees to the importance of taking steps to increase the number of skilled thatchers.
To-day we have not enough skilled labour and certainly not enough thatchers in the country.
We must not look upon rural industry as being purely a matter of thatchers and potters, and makers of hurdles and things of that kind.
