20,000 GERMANS FREED IN ENGLAND TO WORK ON FARMS
(N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent) LONDON, March 20.
The effect on the 20,000 German prisoners of war being offered fulltime jobs as civilians, as announced by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Tom Williams, will be, it is stated, that they will become as free as British* citizens: Some will eventually be allowed to become naturalised after vetting. Single men wil’ be chosen as far as possible, but, if there are not enough of them, married men will be accepted and will be allowed to bring their families to Britain.
Germans will probably be allowed to send limited gifts of money and some kinds of food to their relatives in Germany and before starting work will have the option of taking short leave in Germany. They will be paid a rate for' the job, in this case a. minimum of £4 weekly. The Government also contemplates recruiting men from the Polish Resettlement Corps, and the way would be made easy for former Italian prisoners of war to return jf farmers applied.
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Grey River Argus, 22 March 1947, Page 5
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