FARM DEVELOPMENT
RESUMING 4A SCHEME. APPLICATIONS FROM FARMERS After having been in abeyance all this month the 4A unemployment relief scheme will be resumed again on Thursday, October 1. The essential purpose of this scheme is to facilitate development work on farms, and the original conditions governing it are to be strictly adhered to. The labour engaged must be additional to that ordinarily required, and it is not to be used for milking and other seasonal tasks. Periods of engagement are to range from four to 26 weeks, and the wages agreed upon between employer and employee are to be subsidised at a rate of 10s. a week for single men and 20s. a week for married men.
At present in the district controlled from the central Auckland labour bureau there are still 52 men carrying on contracts under the 4A scheme before it was suspended at the end of last month. In view of the recommencement of the scheme this week 35 fresh applications have already been approved and the men are ready to start. It has to be recognised that the present is .not the most suitable season for farm development work, which is usually carried out in the winter.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3372, 1 October 1931, Page 5
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202FARM DEVELOPMENT King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3372, 1 October 1931, Page 5
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