FARM LAROUR

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 295, 18 April 1941, Page 5

FARM LAROUR

SHORTAGE IN WAIKATO

CITY COUPLE DISILLUSIONED

A farmer appellant to the No. 2 Afrmecl Forces Appeal Board at Huntly recently said lie had endeavoured to obtain labour to replace him on the farm. He had actually induced a married couple from the city, with no previous experience of dairy farming, but witli a desire to learn, to come and undertake the duties. They "stuck it," he said, for three months, and then returned to the city very much disillusioned with farm life. Meantime appellant had made arrangements to render military service, but he had had to re-arrange matters. He and his brother were now milking the herd of 110 cows. The board granted a sine die adjournment. Daughters Do Haymaking. Another farmer asking for exemption from military service for his son, said that the latter was very essential on the farm. Two daughters also helped, one of them driving a tractor quite frequently. The daughters had, earlier in the season, been responsible for getting in 400 tales of hay.

The father told the Board of another occasion when the electric power supply failed, and the family milked the herd of 160 cows by hand, the job finishing at 10.30 p.m. Ee told the Board that a fair statement of the hours worked on the farm by the family was from 4 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The Board, impressed with the sincerity of appellant and the hard work being done on the farm, granted a sine die adjournment of the case.