FARMERS’ UNION SCHEME
EMPLOYMENT FOR MEN ON SUSTENANCE (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 16. Designed to meet the acute shortage of farm labour the scheme formulated by the New Zealand Farmers’ Union to take men from sustenance and train them as farm workers has been approved by Mr J. S. Hunter, undersecretary for Labour. It is expected that the scheme will be operating soon. The men will receive £1 a week as sustenance from the Government and their farmer employers will pay them an additional £1 2/6. The scheme was suggested to the Farmers’ Union at the annual conference at Wellington on Thursday, by Mr D. B. Higgins (Matamata) who said there were on sustenance in Auckland hundreds of men suitable for farm work. A committee was appointed to place the proposal before the Government. , Today Mr Higgins reuorted that the plan had been approved by Mr Hunter and would no doubt be confirmed later by the acting Minister of Labour (the Hon. P. C. Webb).
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Southland Times, Issue 23254, 17 July 1937, Page 8
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