FARM HANDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 186, 6 August 1923, Page 8

FARM HANDS.

I MAKIMI I.U-'K BEl'illTKi;. 1 The necessity for bright ruing tiie lot i iof rural workers in order to counter;.. 1 i i the drift to the .if io- was .tres-ed at the ' ; annual conference of the New Zealand ! ; Farmers' t'ninu. The subject was in- ' ; troduced by the president i Mr. W. .I.' ll'olsoni. v.l'io moved: "That t his confer ' f hit instructs the Dominion executive lo •investigate the receni advanced I. pi-la- I lion in regard to housing with a view to I workers, ami also to communicate wi; 1, ■ the provinces in order to obtain rc.oni I mcudntioii. for improving the conditions • of farm workers, and providing them j I with a workable plan for annual ami • other holiday-." i Mr. Poison said they had in their! '■ farm work-;- a very loyal sci of people. . ami something should he done t,, _,-,. j 'that they were p'operly housed. In:- --: foil una lel y this was not the rase, parti i ciilarly in tiie North island. I'here , was mi uniform system of holidays for; | farm worker-. The l-'arnier-' I "vi,.,, • ■ frequently llirew -lones ai other organi- i I..Hum. but they should put their own, i lii, Use in order. They wanted tiie loyal ! I support of their farm workers. '||~ ! 1 would like the branches and the pruvin '• |cial executives to go thoroughly into! j tin. 'que.-,ion of how the lot -of farm! workers might he n.ade brighter. ] Mr W. J. Ba»_ctt seconded the motion, j 1 remarking that the question was a. very , important one. and should be thoroughly gone into. I Mr. C. L. Marshall 'Marion) .aid that there was a great need in the North i l-]_p_ for more cottages to be built. . 'i'here was necessity ~,r giving more en- ! coiiragemciit lor married men. The . l rouble had been the proiiihitive cost of building during the pa.-.t lew years, liv giving better treat meiiL to farm hands | they would do much to increase the j rural population. Mr. K. Dunn (Tarauaki) said that i t'li.cy «" knew that they got better ser- ■ vice from married men, and the better | the employees were treated the better they ■workedI lie motion was carried