SHORTAGE OF SHEARERS

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24742, 6 December 1945, Page 6

SHORTAGE OF SHEARERS

DRIFT FROM COUNTRY TO TOWN

™£?horc pr o? lem of $* diminishing numbers-of men available for shearing work was discussed at a meeting of & e Canterbury branch of I ™. Production.Council. •»»&. arose from a letter £hEL? ut £ he "Jtentions of the Rehabilitation Department regarding subslaies to shearing trainees. ,„«/' W - Earl - said that the Question se £? us one -' T ll6 Rehabilitation Department was dealing with former servicemen, but men much younger than th.at should be taken into ■ A numbe rof older men had been doing the work, on a reduced S* £*?* ± he ■«?*. but th ey would ch^L^ 0 fi ? lsh - There was a serious shortage of young men to take their places. '

hslLh L - O °P saia tha t it all boiled down to the present drift from country to town. Country work would" nav e to be made more- attractive when the possibility-of a Government subsidy was raised, Mr A. R. Turnbull asked whether they should always be asking for subsidies. "We ■j d ,.l£t down to it ourselves," he said. We are too subsidy-minded." It was decided to request the national council to press for encouragement to shearYn! n y ° Ung meD to take up