The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, The Echo and The Sun FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1912. MANPOWER AND VEGETABLES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 113, 15 May 1942, Page 4

The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, The Echo and The Sun FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1912. MANPOWER AND VEGETABLES

"JVf ANSFEPS <.r mm from civil employment to the armed services are (ausing shortages in industries, trades and businesses which are KMiud to increase in severity. They cannot he avoided, nor should they *»l'rovide(| t hat Hie men, when transferred, are economically " S( d '' lf aimed services, there is every reason why the inconveniences, deprivations and 0cc.,m,,i,.,| hard,hips which follow should he cheerfully lor they are a :-i:rn that the defence needs of the Dominion are "m ~ I" 11 years and more there has been a demand, v,ll >in 14 in sti en-.,'th with tue vici.-situdes of the war abroad, that the 1 1 iv et n l ll ent . hnuld whole heartedly and thoroughly organise the country tor deicncn, and when it makes steps to that end it is entitled to com"icudah. n and lull .-.nppMit. 'I lie latest step, announced to-day, is the "' (1, 1 ' no" e.-seni ial' industries and shops, the employers in vv 1' •' 1 "" 1 - v ni,t r ngage any worker without the prior consent of the 11 " 1 : , ,Vl r •'uithoi it ies Some such step is overdue, for it is a matter 111 "•ami.hi olisvivatii.n that, men, apparently able-bodied, continue to be 111. p 111 \eil in occupai ions which by no stretch of the imagination can be ' ho',nil 1 e- ■<■ 111 ia I 1.1 wa 1 t line.

n,,. i* ... 'nl lun ' treating some industries as non-essential is a he hi mil '! i , ."i M '' ? ' ! VV'! lence of adequate positive action to n ! i? h! n', I industries which are essential. One of these, forewll 're en 1,?, 1 1. 1 ' "i Hie vegetable growing industry. In Australia, .0 tla.sol W v,Si 'V' 1 ' 1 IHRh prircs last sprin " were similar , land, such tri( rgetir action has been taken that it be ihe rre Ite. t'V.V't"l'l'"/■'' ' h; " 1 ht ' un(lpi ' vegetables will shortly I " ni ' ui "wealths history. There it has been realised cannot Ie ' , 7,1 m 1 "V! "'V " mlor market gardening methods he /en I • , 1 • , 1;, l" ,llv 'l-'Veioping demand. In consequence, 1 ' " ''•'' v K I'hcouragim: large-scale production. Farmers U- Jou • V,T r' n,U " v , , ' ;: V ,;il,Us iir " •-wink' them bv the acre n , , W ' l,lK ' ; , lsk, 'd to produce vegetables on a large scale The r p.ll merit has assured the lariuers that they w ill get the labour from 1111 ovei inilit.ii v age. Irom junior farmers, from agricultural students U'l M,m " 10 . \omen s l.and Army. Strenuous efforts are being made also to cope witli the seed and fertiliser problems. In short, heimport--1 v,, «el;iok; industry, for both civil and military needs seems . c iet n gtn.'-ped in Australia. There are no comparable signs that to d<e the\ K '| aS|)( F N( ' W Zralaml - Perhaps the step most needed is to take the task avva.v from committees and give its direction to one m-in tl? m ' lar ( renditions to those which have enabled Mr. James Fletcher ' 'i™ sti iking progress in defence construction works. Vegetable irowin„ Is also a defence work, and it should be treated as such.