MECHANISING THE FARM
o British agriculture was faced with a labour crisis, said Mr D. N. M'Hardy, chairman of the Tractor User's Association, in an introductory address to the Power Farming Development Board. With regard to the problem of increased home food production, he said. it did not seem to be generally realised that farm lands and equipment were fully occupied. Further output would call'for many more machines and more men. Thev were rapidly losing men, and, simultaneously with a call for greater production, were faced with a most serious labour crisis in agriculture. Men were fast leaving the land, attracted by better pay elsewhere. To arrest this drain of men from the land it would be neceisarv to provide a much larger proportion of future workers with machine equipment to enable them to earn better wages by virtue of their increased output.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23220, 18 June 1937, Page 16
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