FARMERS SUFFERING
GOVERNMENT’S RELIEF WAGES Dominion Special Service. Feilding, November 22. The Wellington Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union met here to-day anil discussed th- Government’s unemployment relief scheme, as it affected farm labour. Mr. Lloyd Hammond said the Ohingaitl district was suffering in regard to dairy farm labour, and was unable to get assistance. One man had to milk 70 cows, as he could not get help, though he had applied to the Government Labour Bureau. Mr. Hammond said his own ploughman, a single man. had left, although he had a permanent job. saying that tree-planting on the Government relief scheme was easier than ploughing. The executive decided, to collect evi dence of specific cases for presentation to the proper authorities.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 51, 23 November 1929, Page 10
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