WOMEN AT PLOUGH
FARM LABOUR 'SHORTAGE AN INSTANCE QUOTED Instances of farm labour shortage and their effect on women in the country were given by Mrs C. Irvine, representing the Women’s Division, at a special meeting of the Otorohanga branch of the Farmers’ Union. Mrs Irvine quoted the case of a woman who had to do her own ploughing, while just across the road there was a large camp of Public Works employees who watched her doing it. The farmer had to take the rejects from other industries for farm work, whereas the very best skilled labour should be available to the farming community, she said. The Minister for Marketing (Mr W. Nash) had definitely promised that an adequate number of farm labourers would be made available to carry on and to increase production. This promise had not been kept. She favoured unionism for all farmers in the Dominion. This was the only way to make their weight felt in Parliament. The meeting passed a resolution pledging its support of the Farmers’ Union in any action it thought fit to take.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 48, Issue 2863, 15 November 1939, Page 2
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181WOMEN AT PLOUGH Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 48, Issue 2863, 15 November 1939, Page 2
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