CO-OPERATION AMONG FARMERS

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23401, 7 August 1941, Page 10

CO-OPERATION AMONG FARMERS

Sir,—l notice in "The Press” that the chairman of the Armed Forces Appeal Board stated at Kaikoura that co-ord-'i ination in farm work among neighbours would release some of the appellants: - With all due respect to the •Appeal Board (who have a hard jobi would like to ask Mr Reid how he proposed to do this. After September'nest, when all the menjound here will be called up, there win only be old men on roost farms, and they will not be able to do their own work, without* helping their neighbours. There has been talk of getting married men?. If we employ a man with no family he is liable to be called up any time; if a married man witq children; there Is no school ,in our nelghbourkood. A farm jvprker near a ’school- which is closed has to send his ;two children to a town school, which costs him Is 3d each child a day. It is true the Education Board pays 6d a child, but the worker has to pay once a month and the board once in six months: It takes one week s wages 'in every four to send his children to school. Is it any wander that people are leaving the country and going in to town; I have never .seen so many clearing sales (for the time _of me year) as there have bfeen ; lately. .The only thing lean see. we can do is to cut down production; it must be. done. We are not in the backblpcks, but on the main south Une.-7-Youm^et^^ Bakaia,' August 4, 1941. ’