LABOUR OFFERING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 264, 29 January 1941, Page 5

LABOUR OFFERING

LETTER FROM THE COUNTY!

'UNABLE TO GET WORK"

There are always two sides to a question, states a correspondent writing impersonially to the Editor of the Beacon, and 1 deal* itng with the farm labour profo- 1 lem. The writer complains that lie has been looking for farm work for the past three months in the Whakatane district and; cannot obtain it. He writes: "I see by the 'Beacon* that the farmers are having a very distressing time trying to get labour on their farms. Is this a genuine farmers cry, or is it just to make a noise? To us it is rather amusing in some respects as 1 have been endeavouring to get a farm job since November without success. I advertised through the 'Beacon' and never got a reply, so now you see Ave are fled up with living in other people's, homes and are thinking seriously, of moving on to Te Puke if nothing comes to light here in a few days.t If you happen to have any of thoise 'hard-to-get-labour' farmers, kindly send them out to see me—wages £5 per week for an experienced man not afraid of work." (In connection with the above we w r ill be glad to furnish any infer-* ested farmer with the name and address of the writer in the hope that some mutual arrangement may be arrived at. While we have given the above publicity, Ave would like to explain that we have done so in order to give a hearing to all sides of the question. It is unfortunately only too patent to all with any knowledge of the situation at all that the farm labour problem is not a phantasy, or put up affair as our corrcspondent appears believe. Tt is so vitally real that unless something is done to relieve the strain,

lie country's producing powers

must be curtailed. Perhaps our correspondent's wage assessment is a

little beyond the purse of the average farmer. However this would largely depend upon the understand ing, and terms of engagement upon which he is prepared to enter. We sincerely trust that the result of the above article will be satisfactory to more than one party in this district. Ed.)