EFFICIENT FARM HANDS.
SUGGESTION BY UNION. (From Our Correspondent.) PALMERSTOX XORTH, Wednesday. A remit urging the union to press for, a standard of efficiency before farm workers can qualify for full award rates was adopted by the Miiii-iwatu Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union. The sponsors declared that with the hijih rate of pay offering on public works many of ttie men left for farm occupations were inUfits in other job*. There should Ik; a standard of efficiency for the wajie which was the equivalent of £:s 12/0. Other members of the executive thought that if the Government would provide a subsidy on farm wage* there would be an inducement For the good farm workers to return to the land, which was what the Government wanted.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 157, 6 July 1939, Page 20
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126EFFICIENT FARM HANDS. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 157, 6 July 1939, Page 20
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