EVEN MORE ACUTE
FARM LABOUR PROBLEM COUNTY CHAIRMAN'S BELIEF Mr J. L. Burnett did not" mincef matters when he informed those present at the public meeting at Taneatua last Tuesday evening that in his opinion the farm labour prob lem, already acute, would become almost impossible. "I believe," he said, "that it v. ill not be possible lo get single men on the farms in future and the only hope wc 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 in* - to service. The outlook is not pleasant but it has to be faced. Mr Hewitt gave it as his opinion that the Government intended builtl ing houses on rural areas in order to attract the married man to the land and thereby assist towards 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 industrv.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 215, 20 September 1940, Page 5
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185EVEN MORE ACUTE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 215, 20 September 1940, Page 5
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