WORK ON FARMS
FORMER UNEMPLOYED SUCCESS IN BRITAIN LONDON, March 4. Unemployed men are making £6' a week on Government five-acre farms started in 1935 to relieve the distress of industrial employees out of work. Of 1600 middle-aged men already settled on 25 estates, only a negligible proportion have failed. The success of the scheme is aided by community buying and selling. Centralised produce grading has resulted .n high prices.
The News Chronicle comments that it is surprising that the scheme has succeeded, because it appeared that the Government took every precaution to ensure its failure.
“The men were inexperienced, old, and almost unemployable,” it says. “A similar scheme to absorb unemployed rural workers has proved even more profitable.” Some fanners’ profits total £l5O for the last nine months, and that exceeds even the Government’s expectations.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19895, 24 March 1939, Page 5
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136WORK ON FARMS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19895, 24 March 1939, Page 5
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