SEASONAL WORK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 276, 22 November 1943, Page 4

SEASONAL WORK

TROOPS AVAILABLE FOR FARMS According to Lieut.-Colonel J. W. Barry, N.Z.S.C., Area Commander, troops will be available for harvesting in Area 6 military district from early in December until the end of March. Details have not yet been completed regarding the number of farmers requiring labour, but this is being done through the district councils of primary production. Men will be called up under the month’s camp training provision, and in Area 6 will be accommodated in existing camps at Wanganui, Waiouru, Feilding, Levin and Linton, where maximum comfort in the way of hut accommodation and hot bath facilities are available. The troops will be posted as far as possible to the camp nearest their homes. The Army will provide the transport daily from the camps to the farms where harvesting is to be dene, up to a radius of 20 miles. In Area 6 it is expected that the majority of farms requiring labour can thus be covered from one or other of the camps being used, but in odd cases of farms at distance men may be billeted on the farm while working there.

Reservists called up for harvesting will be paid ordinary Army rates and allowances, plus 6d an hour bonus for an eight-hour day. Work done beyond eight hours will be voluntary, and men undertaking it will be paid for the extra hours so worked at the fate of 2s 6d an hour. These bonus payments will be made by warrant as soon as possible after the men return to their civil occupations. Army pay will be on the usual fortnightly basis.