OPERATIONS ON FARMS

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3849, 4 October 1932, Page 8

OPERATIONS ON FARMS

SHEEPOWNURH’ DI FFICFLTIES .MEN PREFER RELIEF IVORK (Per Press Association! Gisiiorne. Oct. 4. The interference of relief works with seasonal operations on farms was mentioned at a meeting of Poverty Bay and East Coast Slioepnwnorr;’ Union. It was stated that many men believed they were better off on relief works and refused private employ- , men't on farms, and if was decided to draw the ateution of the Unemployment Board to the matter. The Chairman. Mr. E. B. Black, said members had difficulty in seenr!ing men for docking, as men who had been in rite habit of assisting in itltal work were employed on relief! works. (Bitere appeared no simple way out of it. Another memlier reported that it was difficult to secure shed hands for shearing at is an hour, as many men lit’lieved they would he better iff on relief works.