Farm Labour In Back Country Is A Vital Problem
“The problem of conserving the dwindling supply of farm workers in the back country and providing for an influx of young men to tackle development work in the near future are vital.” The chairman of the North Island hill-coun-try committee of Federated Farmers, Mr James Andrew, said this at the committee’s annual meeting.
The only way to encourage young men to take up this work was to provide the necessary incentive, said Mr Andrew. That did not mean high wages but an assurance that those who made good over a stated period would be given assistance to get farms of their own. “One of the worst features of the problem has been the continuous loss to the industry of large numbers of young men bred in the hills, who would willingly have stayed had the future held any prospect of their being farmer’s in their own right,” said Mr Andrew. The meeting passed a resolution urging the Government to put into operation the farm training scheme submitted by the committee apd ilrongly recommended by the Sheep Industry Commission.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 55, 12 June 1950, Page 4
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