FARMERS AND WEEDS
vr. FREE LABOUR OFFERED BY THE GOVERNMENT Notice that the Department of Agriculture had made arrangements with the Unemployment Board that all farmers making application for labour for the purpose of destroying noxious weeds were to be granted relief workers free of cost, has been received in a circular letter by the Hutt County Council. “I urge earnestly that in the interests not only of the individual farmer, but of the community in general, all farmers should avail themselves of this arrangement, and by so
doing add not only to the production value of their individual holdings, but also increase the morale of the relief worker by finding him something useful to do,” the Minister, Hon. C. E. Macmillan, stated. Appreciation of the action of the department was expressed at a meeting of the Hutt County Council yesterday afternoon, and it was decided to ask the Minister if the work could be extended to cover gorse, scrub and other rubbish, which was not included under the specification of “noxious weeds.”
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 125, 21 May 1932, Page 8
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