FARM LABOUR
IS THERE A SHORTAGE ?
MAN'S JOB HUNT IN WAIKATO
A great deal is heard at Manpower Committee and Armed Forces Appeal Board sittings of the farm labour shortage on the Hauraki Plains, but the experience of a Tauranga man, as detailed recently by the Morrinsville Star, gives cause to wonder if there is really such a scarcity. Reading of the alleged shortage of labour in the Waikato the man concerned who lives at Tauranga. crossed the Kaimais and made two trips covering the towns of Paeroa, Morrinsville', Hamilton and Auckland. At each centre he visited the Placement Officer, but in spite of his best efforts he had not been able to get a job.
He is a married man, aged 34 years, with eight years' experience oil the [and. He is prepared to tackle anything, provided accommodation can be found Uf his wife and two children, hnt prefers to milk on shares, ond can find labour for a herd up to 120 cofws.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 43, 22 April 1942, Page 5
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165FARM LABOUR Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 43, 22 April 1942, Page 5
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