LABOUR CONDITIONS
DESIRE FOR ELASTICITY I Per Pre-* Association. ] WELLINGTON, March 18. The desirability of elastic labour conditions in the dairying industry was emphasised at the Dairy Board Conference to-day. Mr J. Dunlop, a board member, said that farmers had been promised that hey would be able to take their wives and daughters away from the sheds, but the position in Southland was exactly the reverse. Weather conditions made elastic hours essential. A remit urging the board to take up with the Minister the question of farnr labour, particularly in regard to the employment of married couples and the weekly half-holiday, was carried.
A motion was carried urging on the Government the necessity of altering the law so that no overtime should be paid in dairy factories, where the permitted weekly hours were not exceeded.
A remit asking the Government to consider the question of training dairy farm employees and making them available for farmers was withdrawn
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 66, 19 March 1937, Page 6
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