Preventing Drift From Farms to Public Works
MR SEMPLE TAKES ACTION
Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Niglit. Hon. R. Semple has taken stops to prevent any drift of farm labour to public works undertakings. Ho said yesterday that the department’s district engineers throughout the country had received definite instructions to employ only those men who were legitimately unemployed. It had been stated that the competition between the Public Works Department in the market from which farm labour is drawn was looked on with grave concern by farmers who considered that the wages of 16/- daily offered by the Department would take the best men away from the farms. “It is not fail - ,” Mr Semple said, “that those men who had been legitimately out of work should have their prospects of jobs spoiled by others who leave their jobs for better pay. It is not fair to the farmer that his employees should leave him, and not fair to the men for whom the public works had been started.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 193, 17 August 1936, Page 6
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