RURAL MORTGAGORS ACT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22193, 21 August 1935, Page 13

RURAL MORTGAGORS ACT

BUDGETARY PROVISIONS POSITION OF FAMILIES The position of farmers' wives and children under the budgetary provisions of the Rural Mortgagors' Final Adjustment Act was discussed at the monthly meeting of the Auckland executive of the Farmers' Union, which was continued in the union rooms yesterday. In reply to a previous resolution of the executive that it was the responsibility of the State to see that the labour of women and children in cowsheds and on farms should not be exploited in the interests of the farmers' conditions, the Minister of Agriculture, Hon. C. E. Macmillan, stated in a letter that the matter vras one for the Justice Department. Another letter was received from the Minister of Justice, Hon. J. G. Cobbe, pointing out that thti administration of the legislation in an equitable manner to ensure that no hardship was inflicted on women or children could safely be left to the Adjustment Commissions and the Court of Review. It would be obvious, stated the letter, that any lessening of the financial burden on the farmer must necessarily benefit the farmer's wife and children. The executive decided to reaffirm its previous resolution and inform the Minister of Justice that it considered he had evaded the point.