FARM LABOUR
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —I have just been listening to the question of farm labour being debated from Parliament. I consider that the Government of to-day could have kept the men on the farms simply by paying all producers a good bonus on all farm products. Raise the farm worker's waf'es to the level of his fellow workers, prohibit the importation of machinery such as header harvesters. etc., and divert, by the bonus, such saved capital into the pockets of New Zealanders instead of other countries benefiting at the expense of the producers. „ , It appears that the New Zealand producers are taxed to pay the farm workers while on public works and still have to lay out hard cash in the purchase of machinery to do the work which these men'would willingly do if on the same level as public works employees.—Yours, etc., • STATION MANAGER. July 29, 1938.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22467, 30 July 1938, Page 20
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