ARMY HARVEST LABOUR
COSTS SAID TO BE TOO HIGH
Prom Our Own Reporter OAMARU, March 28. What was described as the “high cost of Army labour for harvesting” is to .be the subject of representations by farmers and also by the North Otago Primary Production Council to the Department of Agriculture and the National Council of Primary Production. This was decided at a meeting of the production council to-day when a letter was read from a well-known North Otago farmer, who contended that the wages of 2s 6d an hour were not reasonable for the services of inexperienced youths, whose worth he estimated at Is an hour. The question was also discussed by the secretaryorganiser (Mr R. B. Meek), in a report on recent harvesting operations. “The rate of pay for Army harvesters is a matter which requires consideration,” said Mr Meek. “In some cases the cost made it impossible for farmers to carry on, and in several cases farmers have stated that under similar circumstances it will be quite impossible for them to continue growing wheat.” The chairman (Mr W. Malcolm) said that it could not be said that the Government had stabilised harvesting costs. The high wages, if they continued, would undoubtedly affect productioa
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24219, 29 March 1944, Page 4
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