CHEESE FACTORY WORKERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 144, 20 August 1941, Page 4

CHEESE FACTORY WORKERS

oe remitted from that vast reserve of labour, namely, the farming population. That is where most of the husky men for the Government's Public Works Army came from after 1935. No doubt there "will be lot? of married farm workers and farm iboys not yet eligible for the Army who will flock to the new cheese factories, just as they flocked to the Paper Mills not so long ago. And no wonder, when you contrast the tvages and working hours. So the fist of "Farm Hands Wanted" advertisements in the papers seems fikely to get longer and longer.

Yours etc.,

I. WONDER.

NAME FOR A HALL

Sir, —It was interesting to read the two letters in the BEACON offering a name for the King Street Hall. May I suggest a name.. As the Caledonian Society's motto is Standfast "C'raigellachie" I would suggest "Standfast Hall" as a suitable name. And I hope once the Caledonian Society takes over the hall- that we may be lucky enough to get a real Scotch Ingleside or a Scotch concert once in a while instead of modern dances so often which do not interest us not so young folk.

Yours etc.,

FULL Of SCOTCH

Sir, —An interesting item in the BEACON was that 40 or 50 men will be needed to work at the new Whakatane cheese factory. I/t will be interesting to see where they all come from. Most have jobs these days, because of the labour shortage, resulting from so many of the fit men being overseas. I fear that the hundreds of men wanted for extra and enlarged cheese factories throughout New Zealand will (Continued in previous column) , -