AN IMPORTANT REPORT
LONDON, Dec. 19. The Board of Agriculture, in a report tra rural depopulation, states that since 1901 about 1,060,000 acres have passed «utof tillage, and 308,000 out of cultivation. This is attributed to'emigration to Canada and Australia, due to the activity of agents and the advertising; of the allurements of colonial life. "The lowness of wages in rural districts is amongst the chief causes, but there is no evidence that emigration is greatest where the wages are least.
The report add 6 that there is a general deficiency of skilled farm hands. Any sharpening of the intelligence, due to improved literary education, does jiot compensate for : . lack., of ; technical training.' Moreover, manual areas of agriculture :•: are being neglected by those who still seek employment on the land: , . \
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 20 December 1913, Page 5
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130AN IMPORTANT REPORT Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 20 December 1913, Page 5
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