4B SCHEME

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 115, 26 January 1940, Page 5

4B SCHEME

MANY MEN AVAILABLE EFFECTS OF ENLISTMENTS "The men are here. TO is only a matter of finding the jobs/' said Mr H. T. Armstrong, Placement Officer for the Bay of Plenty when referring yesterday to the lact that there were no applications in the Rotorua district for men under the 4B scheme of farm assistance. In the Tauranga and Whakatane districts, however, there had been so many of these contracts that there were no more than 12 men on Scheme in those areas, four at "Tauranga and eight at Whakatane. In an endeavour to interest larm- • ers in this type of assistance and to remove any misconceptions that might exist, an officer of the department is visiting llotorua and started at the beginning of the week to visit farmers in the district. Mr Armstrong was hopeful that this visit would have good results if only to the extent of explaining the scheme fully to the farmers. appeared lo have been misconceptions about the extent of the assistance offered by the Government, but the placement officer stated that on approved contracts the subsidy was from 50 to 75 per cent. He added that it was incorrect to say that there were difficulties in -arranging for the finance of developmental work such as fencing, draining and scrub clearing covered by the scheme.