Subsidy to Encourage Training Farm Labour
GOVERNMENT PLAN ANNOUNCED. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. A subsidy plan intended .to encourage the training of farm labour has been decided on by the Government and the employment certifying officers have already been circularised about the details. Assistance will be made available to farmers all over the Dominion to obtain farm labour, a wages subsidy being paid iu return lor the assistance and co-operation of farmers iu training unemployed young men in the first essentials of farm work. The subsidy will range from 10b to 15s weeky. Hon. H. T. Armstrong stated to-day that tho subsidy would be limited to a period of eight weeks and would be payable only iu respect of the second to ninth weeks (inclusive) of continuous employment at the following rates: Weekly cash subsidy to wage 18 and under 19 years, £1 7s 6d, farmer 10s; under 20 years £1 12s 6d, farmer 12s 6d; 20 and under 21 years, £1 17s 6d, farmer 15s.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 69, 23 March 1937, Page 4
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