WOMAN AT PLOUGH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 254, 27 October 1939, Page 5

WOMAN AT PLOUGH

BESIDE PUBLIC WORKS CAMP KING COUNTRY POSITION I Per Press Association I OTOROHANGA. OG Instances of farm labour . ..ye * and their effect on women .i the I country were given by Mrs, C. livine, >f ! representing tne Women's Division, at s I a special meeting of the Otorohanga s’ i branch of the New Zealand Farmers i_ | Union. Mrs. Irvine quoted the case ;t | of a woman v. ho had to do her own , r j ploughing, while just across the road • ~ there was a large camp of Public ■ n j Works employees uho watched her ~ | doing it. r _ I The farmer had to take the rejects ; n i from other industries for farm work. I ie I whereas the very best skilled laboux I i should be available to the farming; ie i community, she said. The Minister n of Marketing, the Hon. W. Nash, had • definitely promised that an adequate , number of farm labourers would be • available to carry on and to inls I crease production. This promise had e jnot been kept. She favoured unionism J for all farmers in the Dominion. This n I was the only way to make their , weight felt in Parliament. a j The meeting passed a resolution e i pledging its support of the Farmers' n ' Union in any action it thought fit to , (take.