FARM WORKERS

Grey River Argus, 22 September 1936, Page 5

FARM WORKERS

BETTER OPENINGS

Wairarapa Union

CONSTRUCTIVE IDEALS

(Per Press Association.)

AIASTEItTON, September 21

The apprenticeship of boys *o farmers was urged at a meeting 01. <’he Wa'rarapa Provincial Executive of fhe Farmers' L'nion to-day. H was stated that, if a suitable scheme could be evolved, it would be some encouragement to the farmer ro teach a boy, and make a thoroughly ellicieni’ fa.rm worker out of him.

The following motion was carried unanimously“ That the Farmers’ Un'oii Executive be asked to formulate a comprehensive scheme of apprenticeship for lads leaving school, say, on a three-years’ basis, on dairy and sheep farms.” Another ni'at’ter of importance debated by the Executive was the provision of better facilities tor the erection of houses for married farm workers.

The debate followed the reading of a letter from the Secrei’ary of tin: Labour Department, asking for comment on the suggestion that had been submitted that a more adequate supply of farm labour would be ensued if .’he Government offered to advance cheap money aud a subsidy for the erection, by farmers, of farm dwellings suitable, for married men. . The speakers stressed, the ne-ed to increase the rural population, and the following motion was carried unanimously:—“That this Executive endorses the suggestion from' the Labour Department,-- and - -notes, -with surprise, that this obvious measure was not iQcluded in the recent Housing Act.”