LABOUR FOR FARMS
THE SERVICE DRAIN
REMEDIAL ACTION URGED
(By Telegraph—Preea Association.)
HASTINGS, December 2.
A proposal that a scheme be provided for the regimentation of labour to maintain primary production in New Zealand has been made to the Minister of Finance (Mr. :Nas"h) by the chairman of the Hawke's Bay Manpower Committee, Mr. G. A. Maddison.
"As chairman of the Man-power Committee for this district, I am thoroughly satisfied that it is essential and, not only essential, btit imperative, for the maintenance of our primary production, that some comprehensive scheme be undertaken to provide the necessary labour," .said Mr. Maddison in a letter to the Minister.
"The man-power committees did not come into operation till June 6 and before that scores of permanent employees, as well as farmer-owners, had left their lands to join the fighting services. As a matter of fact, this district has sent away scores of men over our quota to make up deficiencies in quotas from other parts of New Zealand."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 134, 3 December 1940, Page 13
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