FARM LABOUR
SCHEME TO MEET SHORTAGE By Telegraph —Press Association WELLINGTON, July 16. Designed to meet an acute shortage of farm labour, a 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, the farmers, as employers, to pay them an additional £l/2/6.
The scheme was suggested to the Farmers’ Union at the annua] conference in Wellington on Thursday by Mr D. B. Higgins (Matamata) who said that there were on sustenance in Auckland hundreds of men suitable for farm work.
A committee was appointed to place the proposal before the Government, and to-day Mr Higgins reported that the plan had been approved by Mr Hunter, and would no doubt be confirmed later by the Acting-Minister of Labour.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20782, 17 July 1937, Page 8
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