Rural jobs plan

Press, 23 June 1981, Page 3

Rural jobs plan

Specialist help to promote job opportunities in farming communities may soon be available through the Canterbury United Council. The next meeting of the council .will consider a recommendation to appoint a rural-employment officer who would introduce to. farming areas the advisory service already provided by two employment-promotion officers in Christchurch City. The recommendation suggests that the officers main task would be to help rural communities make the fullest use of the Government’s job creation schemes, such as the Farm Subsidised Training Scheme. It says that the promotion of rural jobs would also encourage unemployed people in the city to seek work in the country. The employment officer would also advise communities on how to establish rural trusts to supply work and training in horticulture and to help trained people to start their own horticultural plots. The council will seek to find out through its constituent authorities where the officer would be best employed.