HOME GUARDS
RELIEF FOR FARM WORKERS
(P.A.)
ASHBURTON, This Day.
After a conference with Brigadier Rowllings, officer commanding the Southern Military Area, and other officers, regarding Home Guard conditions, the Ashburton County Council is to suggest to the Minister of Defence that members of the Home Guard of more than 50 years of age should be relieved of weekly Guard duties, so that the time could be devoted to primary production. It was decided to emphasise that other workers were exempt from Home Guard duties, and the council felt that farm workers were entitled to at least equal consideration, as no man could be expected to last long on a seven-day week. Other industries, mostly on a 40-hour week, had a day of rest; the farm workers had. none.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 76, 26 September 1942, Page 6
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129HOME GUARDS Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 76, 26 September 1942, Page 6
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