WOULD IT SUCCEED?

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2668, 26 August 1930, Page 7

WOULD IT SUCCEED?

SUBSIDISED FARM LABOUR OPINIONS OF HATi KE S BAY FARMERS SCOPE OF UNSKILLED WORK LIMITED A proposal made recently that tUo Government subsidise farm labour as a measure for the relief of unemploy_ luont has aroused quite a deal ol discussion around Hawke’s Day. The general trend of opinion seems Lot bo that fundamentally the scheme is a good one, both from the point of view of t ie farmer concerned and the country as a whole, hut the fact remains that on a go<ud many farms where there is ample work to be dome —work of a. more urgent and more improving nature than that offering on other 1 arms—the farmers would not be iu a position to take ad vantake of tile subsidy offering. A SPECIALISED NATURE The scope of work available on farms for the unemployed wi/ukl, of course, be limited. The; farmers best ab’e to make use of t ie subsidy would be those with scrub to he cut, or drains to bo dug. A very large amount of farm, work is more or less of a specialised nature, and is not such as could be carried on by a man who has had Ui> previous experienes. In a country.such as this there; should actually be* very few men of the labouring class who have not had some experience of farming at some time or other during their careers, but actually it is surprising toi ffnd so many men engaged in wliat might he termed unskilled work in the towns, who have had no experience whatever of country conditions.— “Jackeroo, in N a pie r Telegraph.