FARM WORK FOR YOUTHS.

Mt Benger Mail, 16 September 1931, Page 1

FARM WORK FOR YOUTHS.

I THE SCHEME DENOUNCED 11V LADDER. CONSCRIPTION AND SWEA'I INC. ALL EC ED. j Christchurch, Septcbcr 7. , “Any thinking' person analysing tins scheme can come to no other cunchision than that tin board’s ambition is to conscript 11he youth of the country Tor only j out object - to obey the directum* jw it Liu lone or liv i - y > nr-* set "Ut by .Sir Olio Nit me) cr." said M•" C. E. Baldwin, president oi tin New /•.•aland \\ orki r s i nioii, ai<j:iv in a statement criticising tin |tiaii lor placing souths on la tins announced I*y Mr Smith {Minis s r of Labour and chairman oi lin Uuemploymeiit Board,). •• it is well known to ail practi- | cal observers that few or none oi the .sheep runs, known as stations, jiavi opportunities for giving any general education, with agricuiUU'e included, to those wliom tin;, employ, said Mr Baidu in. 1 m Minister makes 'lie statement that in tin meantime this scheme will iM limited to too V oUt hs, and !he j j.n riod lor Ira 11 it ii g vv 11 i be ior one yiar, Eater he stales that the beard v\ ds see I lull opportunities Lif junuauent employment an , hose aho have mad* good. A j suitable station lor training, according m the Minister, is one where iwo or more boy s eouid in ! raun d suuuitaiieoush , and in says that several large station-hol-ders have uci red to take as many as a dozen boys. Hie qiutmn is how roes tills tally wilii the Minister's stall, mein that the schelim will be limited to SOU, when the Cov. rniueiit Statistician's returns show that there am some thousands ol holders of areas throughout the rural districts; Ail \ oulhs so piacenl, liic Minister asserts, must eojilonii to Uo.uiscipibic obtaining on tin holdings to whleh limy am allocat'd. this plain! v and distinctly shows that tin .Minis Pr's or tin hoard’s obj* etiv t is to opjii'iisi as jar as pos. sibic the cry ol tin iiilntfnndi ;s ,H the dictates and suggestions oi :lie financial and mercantile concerns of the country. Regarding pocket money oi 6s a week, which under the Minister's camouflage, is in the nature of an educational bursary, the Minister neglects to state whether this 5s is paid Ollt of the unempioy incut funds or by the station holder. If it is the latter, tlieu the Minister is advocating the cruel lest and worst form of sweating Dial was ever suggested by any responsible Minister in the whole of the history of New Zealand. If the money is to be paid out ol tiu unemployment funds, wed, then i claim that the Minister will be responsible for a contravention ol Unlaw, as there is no provision in the Act to permit the board to utilise ins accumulated funds for such a purpose, there are thousands ot farmers’ sons and rural workers sons well fra it led throughout Uauterbun who are to-day in the ranks of the unemployed. The same applies to the other rural districts of New Zealand. The question arises: lias the Minister’s .scheme the full endorsement of the members of the board ! D so, the public should wake up to the fact that the money derived from the taxes that arc imposed on a useful section of the community is being wrongly administered.”