“DESPERATE SITUATION”
Farm Labour Lack (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. Nov. 22. The labour situation on New Zealand farms was desperate, the president of Federated Farmers (Mr E. W. McCallum) said today. Another 50,000 workers could be used on farms if economic conditions were favourable —nearly every farm in the country could do with another man. Wives were working In cowsheds on 50 per cent of farms in some parts of Taranaki, said Mr McCallum. In other districts they were driving tractors. More wives we-e working on cowsheds than all through the depression and during the war. Increases in production called for by the Government could not be achieved until the labour position improved. The labour situation was the worst in his lifetime, Mr McCallum said. Smaller farmers could not afford to compete with town wages, and there were thousands of empty houses on farms throughout the country because married couples could not be found to fill them.
Incentives for further production were useless until more labour was obtained.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30296, 23 November 1963, Page 10
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