FARM HANDS WANTED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2362, 19 January 1915, Page 8

FARM HANDS WANTED

[ 'EERY FEW MEN 'AVAILABLE. f' Just now there is a. very strong demand for farm labour, and very few men to fill the' position are available. : These facts are taken as -indications ; that there is; no • great dearth of. em- :. though,-of course, they are toot complete to any questions 1 wming under that* head. , ■■ branch of the Deparb- ; "pent of Labour has had quite - a num- ; her of applications fronvthe country dis- • /triots for men who can do general farm ! work. In some oases milkers are required, and :in others the "milking" •will consist of merely .stripping thei cows i 'after machines have done the milking. ' ■;. The, Labour Department is unable to f ; fill these positions at present, because •it has not one farm hand on its books. ' -.' Also, there appears to bo a shortage '•'of boys for :; farms,for, like many other ; employers-of: labour, the farmers are • | inquiring freely .for', hoys, whom they | want for light general work. } .:■•■ Recent reguestsjfor..men .came from iWairarapaJand Taranaki. t- Last weeltthe Wellington bureau had ; : only four farmhands onits books, and '•- all these were sent'- to situations with- ■'."'.. .out dekyVs~'4'"?V'-' ■"- ". '.' \",.'_-'. ]■:■■'■'. There areisdme ,'m'en who;'•according [.'. ■ ,'t<> the Department,-.could get'employf"""/: :iment on farms,-but will "not accept it. !•' ' flflen accustb'medVtp. town" life who have I''.-.■ been offered; good-conditions the k' country have refused'-the "offer's,"-even '■■ jthough they ;were unemployed'end in J: j'debt.' Sometimes men who have refused !:■ Ifarm work-have-hung about the City )-.- 'for weeks, "and then consented to take I a job in (say) another town. To the !.. surprise of "the officers of the Labour f. 'Departmentij-rlt has then transpired that !- the-men who declined, £Voa. ;to' '£1: i los. per week (and found) on a. farm i- have'had not even enough to their !■'■' . .fares to the'new situation.