FARM LABOUR PROBLEM
NO SINGLE MEN AVAILABLE [BT TELEGRAPH OWN CORRESPONDENT] "WHAKATANK. Friday The chairman of the Whakatane County Council, Mr. J. L. Barnett,. : addressing a meeting of ratepayers, said in his opinion the farm labour pr 0 "*. lem, already acut-e, would become... almost impossible of solution. "I be- - lieve." he said, "it will not be possible • to get single men on the farms IB: . future, and the only hope we have is the married men. ' tj.y "We have been told it is the tion of the Government to_ draft er . available able-bodied man into servic• The outlook is not pleasant, but .iti to be faced. Production will drop unless something is done to ens , ; those who stay behind do not neg the primary industries." . -r
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23767, 21 September 1940, Page 12
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