Many Schoolboys Employed
About 36 secondary schoolboys had been employed grubbing nassella tussock, the secretary-manager of the North Canterbury Nassella Tussock Board (Mr F. J. Foley) reported to the monthly meeting at Waipara yesterday. The Scargill and Waipara camps had been fully manned by the boys from Christchurch, and 14 from Rangiora had been transported by bus each day. “The cost of running the bus across from Rangiora was 2s a mile and even though this may seem an expensive way of employing labour it is not really when it is considered that the board subsidises accommodation charges at its camps and hostels.” Mr Foley said. Mr W. L. Kay, the chief inspector, said that on the whole the boys had worked well.
About 300 Cook Islanders had applied for work with the board and the whole matter had been handed over to the Departments of Labour and Island Territories. Mr Foley said. The Waipara hostel was to be kept free for the possible engagement of Cook Islanders, which could be done because local labour was still scarce.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29523, 26 May 1961, Page 18
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