FARM WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1938, Page 15

FARM WORKERS

ATTRACTED TO PUBLIC

WORKS

The effects of the Government's publie works policy on farm labour constituted a problem, stated Mr. R. A. Wright, Independent candidate for Wellington West, when speaking at Mornington last night, and the time must come when the inability to secure farm labour would lead to a reduction in production. Because public works, offered shorter hours and higher wages, many farmers had already found that they could not produce as much as formerly, Mr. Wright said. Even farmers' sons were leaving the farms to obtain situations in the railways or other public works, and sooner or later the effect would be a reduction in the volume of New Zealand's exports with a consequential retardation of proMr. Wright said that Socialist candidates' were not the only ones that had a right to represent the workers. There were many workers ■who did not believe in Socialism and who would vote against any candidate who supported a socialistic policy. At the present time the electors were divided into two camps and no one could say which had the majority. Mr. C. Backhouse presided at the meeting, and at the conclusion of the candidate's address a vote of thanks was carried. PROFESSOR ALCIE'S ADDRESS (By Telegraph—Presp Association.) OTAKI, This Day. Professor Algie was accorded a splendid hearing at a meeting he adI dressed last night. He confined himself chiefly to condemning the Labour Party policy.