PUBLIC WORKS POLICY
EFFECT ON FARM LABOUR DAIRYING POSITION Criticism of the Government’s public works policy in relation to its effect on labour on farms was voiced by Mr. W. Harbutt, chairman of directors of the Cambridge Dairy Company, Limited, at the . annual meeting of suppliers. “The farming community is still having difficulty in procuring suitable labour, and while the Government by its suggested policy this year is to spend £20,000,000 on public works I am afraid the position of the dairy industry will not be improved,” said Mr. Harbutt. “We hope the committee, recently appointed to examine and recommend the guaranteed price for the coming season, will be able to nominate a price which will allow the farmer to pay competitive rates of wages. “It is of no use any Minister of the Crown suggesting that the Government can legislate to force a man to work on the farm,” added Mr. Harbutt. “Make the rate of pay competitive so that a person who wishes to take up farm work is not going to be penalised and the difficulty 'will automatically solve itself.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19700, 4 August 1938, Page 12
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