GARDEN LABOUR
ISLANDERS SUGGESTED (Per Preas Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A suggestion that, man-power could be imported from the Cook Islands to help meet the labour shortage in the marketing gardening industry was made by Mr. W. T. Goodwin, assistant Director of the Horticulture Division, in giving evidence at the Price Tribunal inquiry. He was Director of Agriculture in the Cook Group for three years. The population of Rarotonga had doubled in recent years, he said. He had found the residents very apt, and they would be quite suitable-as market garden labourers. Their main difficulty was getting to New Zealand, because they had no money. They could hardly raise 20 pence, let alone the £2O fare.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20620, 22 November 1941, Page 7
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