ORGANISATION OF LABOUR
HARVESTING THE CROPS.
The Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. W. D. S. MacDbnald) told a reporter yesterday that the Government lias under consideration tho question of tho organisation of labour throughout tho Dominion, to ensure that all essential work can he carried on. Mr. Mac Donald's romark had , reference to a recently published statement that tlio Labour Department had on its unemployment register in Wellington tho names of fourteen men who were willing to do harvesting work. Tho field supervisors of the Agricultural Department all over tho country have been making inquiries as to tho_ amount of labour offering, and their advice generally is that while thero is undoubtedly a scarcity of workers, farmers contrive io.. get through their harvesting operations by helping one another. The Minister hopes to have the census returns to show the available supply of labour of various classes during the month, and when this is available the Governmont will have- some data on which to build its labour organisation scheme, if indeed any such Echemo • should bo considered necesEary.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2972, 9 January 1917, Page 3
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177ORGANISATION OF LABOUR Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2972, 9 January 1917, Page 3
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