FARM HANDS DEPLETED.
POSITION IN ENGLAND. EFFECT OF EMIGRATION. •y Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 2. 10.50 a.m.) I OXDON. June 1. The National Farmers’ Union has memorialised the Government protesting against the depletion of the. countryside, where the shortage of farm hands is already acute. “ 'The Australian and Canadian immigration jx>l- - it says, “are calculated to benefit the dominions at the expense of British agriculture. The surplus population, which the dominions do not accept, exists only in the cities and the town*'.” Those signing the memorial declare that British agriculture is losing its youngest and most skilful land workers .ami that the British food production must decline in consequence.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16749, 2 June 1922, Page 7
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