FARM LABOUR SHORTAGE
EFFECT OF MILITARY SERVICE [per press association.] AUCKLAND, October 18. The statement that a boy under his charge had done half a day’s work before he came to school, owing to the departure from his father’s farm of labourers to join the military forces, was made in a letter from a Bay of Plenty teacher to the Auckland Education Board. “1 fear that such cases are by no means isolated,” stated the teacher. “There is something wrong when adults can do a 40-hour week, and children have to work from daylight till dark.” Mr. W. I. Bowyer, at to-day’s meeting of the Education Board, said that a Minister of the Crown had stated in the Press that he knew nothing of the position. If that is so, added Mr. Bowyer, the Minister did not know his job. The position on farms was worse than it had been for 20 years, elderly women having to go back to the cowshed.
The Board referred the matter to ;he Education Department.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1939, Page 5
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