Sustenance Men for Farms
FARMERS ’ UNION SCHEME Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Designed to meet the acute shortage of farm labour, a scheme formulated by the New Zealand Farmers’ Union to take men from sustenance and train them as farm workers has been approv ed by Mr. J. S. Hunter, Undersecretary for Labour. It is expected that the scheme will be operating soon. The men will receive £1 a week as susteu ance from the Government, and the farmer employers will pay them an additional £1 2s 6d. The scheme was suggested to the Farmers' Union at the annual confer ence in Wellington on. Thursday by Mr. D. B. Higgins (Matamata), who said there were on sustenance in Auckland hundreds of men suitable for farm work. A committee was appointed to place the proposal before the Government, and to-day Air. Higgins reported that the plan had been approved by Air Hunter and would no doubt be confirm ed later by the Acting-Afinister of Labour.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 168, 17 July 1937, Page 4
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