LABOUR FOR FARM WORK
* REGIMENTATION PROPOSED CTBESS ASSOCIATION T«T,EGRIU.) HASTINGS, December 3. A proposal that a scheme be provided for the regimentation of labour to maintain primary production in New Zealand has been made to the Minister for Finance (the Hon. W. Nash) by the chairman of the Hawke’s Bay Manpower Committee (Mr G. A. Maddison). “As chairman of the Manpower Committee for this district, I am thoroughly satisfied that it is essential, and not only essential, but imperative, for the maintenance of our primary production that some comprehensive scheme be undertaken to provide the necessary labour," said Mr Maddison in a letter to the Minister. “Manpower committees did not come into operation until June 6, and before that scores of permanent employees as well as farmer-owners had left their lands to join the fighting services. "As a matter of fact, this district has sent away scores of men over and above .our quota to make up deficiencies in quotas from other parts of New Zealand."
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23194, 4 December 1940, Page 6
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