DRAIN ON MANPOWER
SHORTAGE OF FARM LABOUR "TOO DRASTIC COMBING" "Three things are paramount in a Avar crisis—food, equipment and manpower. All is based on manpower,'" said Mr J. N. Massey, M.P., at a conference he called as chair-' man of the Franklin County Council. "Our soldiers must be supplied with food, and the position is desperate," he added. "There arc many men in camp to-day who- Avould be serving their country just as well on a farm. Herds are being reduced, and it will take years to bring them back if the drainage of skilled farm workers continued."' Mr R. C. Clark, chairman of the Primary Production Council, said the council had not had the sympathetic hearing from the Armed Forces Appeal Board that it should have had. Certain industries had been combed too drastically. It Avas decided to form the conference into a committee to collect facts for Mr Massey to present to the Prime Minister, the committee to met again later. The same position applies on the Rangitaiki Avhen the labour problem must affect future production figures.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 70, 26 June 1942, Page 5
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180DRAIN ON MANPOWER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 70, 26 June 1942, Page 5
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