Less-skilled building workers, such as thatchers and daubers, also worked in teams.
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The one relates to the occupation of hedgers and thatchers, and the other to that of mole-catchers.
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I have not heard that the building licensing regulations have caused any difficulty to thatchers.
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I realise that the large increase in the acreage of land under cereals calls for additional skilled thatchers.
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There is a great difficulty in getting experienced hedgers, ditchers, thatchers, men who can make hurdles, men of that class.
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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.
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To-day we have not enough skilled labour and certainly not enough thatchers in the country.
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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.
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