FARM LABOUR PROBLEM.
WHAKATAXE, this day. The county chairman, Mr. J. T. Burnett, did not mince matters when he informed those present at a public meeting of ratepayers that in his opinion the farm labour problem, already acute, would become almost impossible. "I believe," he said, "that it would not be possible to get single men on the farms in future and the only hope we have will be for the married man. We have been told that it is the intention of the Government to draft every available able.-bodied man into service. The outlook is not pleasant, but it has to be faced." I
Mr. Hewitt gave it as his opinion that the Government intended building houses on rural areas in order to attract the married man to the land and thereby assist greater production.
Mr. Burnett said that when two or three further reinforcements went into camp there would be none other than married men available. Production would naturally drop unless something was done to ensure that those who stayed behind did not neglect the primary industry. < *
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 11
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179FARM LABOUR PROBLEM. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 11
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