MEN FOR HARVEST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17946, 25 November 1932, Page 5

MEN FOR HARVEST

USE OP RELIEF WORKERS

PROPOSAL IN FRANKLIN

While there are thousands of unemployed in the Dominion, farmers at times experience difficulty in obtaining men to assist with harvesting operalions. At a meeting of the Franklin County Council, the Franklin , sub-pro-vincial branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union inquired whether it would be possible to make arrangements whereby men normally employed in harvesting operations, or able to do such work, be relieved from unemployment work so that they might not ho penalised through taking on harvesting work. The county clerk, Mr A. P. Day, said <he council bad no objection to relief nTjvkers being relieved for the work Miggested, but the question of being penalised was not one for the, council —o decide. He referred to the steps taken to obtain labor for potato digging.

Mr. IT. P. Garland said the Unemployment Board Imd agreed to release men for harvesting work. My, .1. Henry stated that a number of Patumahoe fanners required labor fo>’ harvesting almost immediately.

Tt was stated bv tho clerk that when a man went off the relief schemes the •Sidney allocated was divided among the other men on relief work.