PRISONERS OF WAR
AN AUCKLAND SUGGESTION By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, January 20. That New Zealand should solve the problem of the serious shortage of farm labour by using prisoners of war was suggested at to-day’s meeting of the Auckland Primary Production Council by the chairman (Mr R. C. Clark), who said that the use of Italiaii prisoners on Dominion farms would greatly assist the war effort and render valuable service to the Empire. Replying to an interjection that it would be unwise to introduce such a scheme, Mr Clark said: ‘‘We might be driven to a great many things we did not want to do ordinarily.” “We must be careful,” said Mr S. I. “My suggestion is only a recommendation to the National Council of Primary Production. It is for it to approach the Government and for the Government to make the decision,” replied Mr Clark. After a discussion indicating a division of opinion, „ motion on the lines of Mr Clark’s suggestion was carried, with some dissentients.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21867, 21 January 1941, Page 3
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167PRISONERS OF WAR Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21867, 21 January 1941, Page 3
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