FARM AND DOMESTIC WORKERS
SUGGESTION FOR ALLEVIATING SHORTAGE [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, May 10. A scheme for the alleviation of the shortage of farm workers and domestic workers on farms in New Zealand was suggested by Mr Josef S. Zaba, of Prague, Czechoslovakia, during an address to the Christchurch Rotary Club to-day. If the Government agreed, he said, he thought that workers could oe sent to New Zealand from his country Many Czechs had gone to Argentina and other South American States, Mr Zaba said. They were fine, hard workers and did not grumble at work Numbers of his countrymen had also gone to France and Belgium for seasonal work, mostly in mines and on farms, and the scheme had worked ouite satisfactorily.
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Evening Star, Issue 22954, 11 May 1938, Page 16
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