FARMING COSTS
Increase Caused By Dairy Workers’ Wages APPRENTICESHIP SCHEME? By Telegraph—Press Association. Blenheim, December 17. The increased farming costs were adversely commented upon by the Blenheim branch of the Farmers’ Union, which resolved to forward the following resolution to the Minister of Labour, Hon. H. T. Armstrong:— “This branch protests most emphatically against the increased costs to primary producers caused by raising wages for dairy agricultural workers. The meeting also resolved to forward a remit to the Dominion executive of the union advocating the Institution of a form of apprenticeship for inexperienced lads between 15 and 17 years desiring to learn dairying or agricultural work. A wage of 12/6 a week and keep was suggested for the first six months, followed by award rates.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 72, 18 December 1937, Page 27
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