WORK ON FARMS.
FORAIER UNEMPLOYED MEN
LONDON, March 4
Unemployed men are making £6 a week on Government live-acre farms started in 1935 to relieve the distress of industrial employees out of work. Of 1600 middle-aged men already settled on 25 estates, only a negligible proportion have tailed. The success of the scheme is aided by community buying and selling. Centralised produce grading has resulted in high prices. The News-Chronicle comments that it is surprising that the scheme has succeeded, because it appeared that “the Government took every precaution to ensure its failure.” “The men were inexperienced, old, and almost unemployable,’’ it says. “A similar scheme to absorb unemployed rural workers has proved even more profitable.” Some farmers’ profits total iloO lor the last nine months, and that exceeds even the Government’s expectations.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 March 1939, Page 7
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133WORK ON FARMS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 March 1939, Page 7
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