FARM LABOUR PROBLEMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 11

FARM LABOUR PROBLEMS

WAIRARAPA DISCUSSION APPRENTICESHIP PLAN HOUSING FACILITIES (Per Press Association.) MASTER-TON, last night. The apprenticeship of hoys to .farmers was urged at a meeting of the Wairarapa provincial executive of the farmers’ Union to-day. It was stated that, if a suitable scheme could be evolved, it would be some encouragement to a farmer to teach a boy and make a thoroughly efficient farm worker out. of him. The following motion was carried unanimously:—“That the Farmers’ Union executive be asked to formulate a comprehensive scheme of apprenticeship for lads leaving school, say, on a three years’ basis, oil dairy and sheep farms.” Another limiter of importance debated by 1 lie executive was the provision of better facilities for the erection of houses for married farm work-

Tho. debate followed the reading of a letter from the secretary of the Labour Department risking for comment on a suggestion that had been submitted, that a more adequate supply of farm .labour would be ensured if'the Government offered to advance cheap money and a subsidy for the erection by farmers of farm dwellings suitable for married men.

Speakers stressed the need to increase the rural population, and the following motion was .carried ttnanimouslv: —“That this executive endorses the suggestion from the Labour Department and notes with surprise that this obvious measure was not included in the recent. Housing Act.”