Cost Of Farm Training
Sir,—“Fat and Useless’’ should have added “ignorant” to his nom de plume. If he saw the display regarding incomes at the last Canterbury A. and P. Show in the Lincoln College tent, he would have realised just how few farmers there are earning above 7 or 8 per cent, and how many there are earning only around 5 per cent, and under. Why shouldn’t a farmer be assisted in boarding a trainee? I hate to think of the clamour that would arise if trade firms were asked to provide board for their apprentices and only receive £1 in return, as does the farmer. Maybe their diviend would drop to only 10 per cent. Tragic! One day “Fat and Useless” may realise that if the farmer is doing well, so is New Zealand, and I would suggest that he follows his own solution at the end of his letter. —Yours, etc., THIN AND USEFUL. July 13, 1961.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29567, 17 July 1961, Page 3
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