FEWER WORKERS.
NEW ZEALAND AGRICULTURE
SECONDARY INDUSTRY PLEA. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Emphasising the need for greater development of secondary industries as tlie only way of providing employment for the increasing population, Mr. H. T. Armstrong (Labour, Christehurcli East), in the Budget debate, said the official statistics showed that there were 7000 fewer workers in agriculture than in 1929. The introduction of machinery and the application of science to agriculture were making small farms unprofitable to work and while the Government was talking about putting people on tenacre farms more progressive countries were pulling down dividing fences. Only 20 per cent of the working population of New Zealand were getting a living from the land. Mr. W. J. Poison (Government, Stratford) : Eighty per cent live on 20 per cent. "That fossilised idea is as dead as the dodo period," said Mr. Armstrong. "As a matter of fact tlie interests of the whole are common and the best market for farmers is the internal market."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 230, 28 September 1935, Page 23
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