REHABILITATION SCHEME
DRIFT TO TOWN LIKELY FARMER EXPRESSES CONCERN “ I feel sure that, if the Government is allowed to go on with its rehabilitation scheme without any regard to the welfare of primary industry, it will meet trouble in the future," said Mr A. C. Leary at a meeting yesterday of the Otago Provincial Council of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. Opportunities were being provided for returned soldiers to learn trades, Mr Leary said, and while they were doing so these men would receive £5 a week. The result would be that hundreds of young men who had previously worked on the land would come into the towns. It was the duty of the. executive to devise some constructive proposals to put before the Rehabilitation Committee. With a drop in the price of primary produce, many of the men who were being trained for secondary industries would b& out of a job, as there would be no market for their products. It was decided to set up a rehabilitation sub-committee of the council, and to seek a place on the local Rehabilitation Committee for a representative of the major farming organisations in Otago.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25213, 30 April 1943, Page 2
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