TO STAY AT WORK

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 250, 21 July 1942, Page 4

TO STAY AT WORK

Farmers Who Are Called Up

“These men are to stay in their occupations (Tending a complete examination of the position generally,” said the Minister of National Service, Mr. Broadfoot, when asked yesterday for an explanation of the attitude to be adopted by farmers or farm employees called up for military service and passed medically fit. The Minister said that if an appeal had not already been lodged, any person or persons affected should, without delay, place the position before the local appeal board, which would take steps to arrange postponement meantime. “Arrangements have also been made,” said the Minister, “for primary production councils to lodge appeals on the grounds of public interest witli the appropriate appeal board. It is quite possible that some uf the men concerned have insufficient experience to justify their retention on the farm, or the production of the particular farm on which they are employed may be insufficient to warrant the retention of an experienced man, in which ease it is proposed that, such men will lie transferred to other or more highly productive farms where their services will be more useful to the nation.”