TO STAY PUT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 17, 20 July 1942, Page 7

TO STAY PUT

Men on Farms

Asked today to state the position regarding the farmer or farm employee who has been called up for military service and passed medically fit, the. Minister of National Service (Mr. Broadfobt) said that these men were to stay in their occupations pending a complete examination of the position generally. Accordingly, if an 4 appeal had not already been lodged, any person or persons affected shoufd without delay place the position before the local appeal board which would take steps to arrange a postponement in the meantime. "Arrangements have also been made," said the Minister, "for the primary production councils to lodge appeals on the ground of public interest with the appropriate appeal board. It is quite possible that some of 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 such a case it is proposed that the man concerned would be transferred to another or more highly productive farm where his services would be more useful to the nation."