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SHORTAGE OF FARM LABOUR

'SOU'I'HL'AMT FARMER'S PLIGHT. - !__• A' well-known Southland farmer, who is in ii position to offer an authoritative ' opinion on tho farming position in tho south, makes a rather disturbing statement of agricultural affairs in South•,land,estates tho Otago "Times." This fanner:has an cstato of over 3000 aores,-and ho states that this year, . .owing to of labour, ho has : not been ablo to putin any oat crop at all, and that tho outlook for winter feed,: despite the/fact that be has an ■ : '-"aro'* jinder turnips, is very bad. . One • plot !of 100 acres' has had to be given '..'■ over to tho weeds, because no men.aro -available to work it. Five teams have .been'waiting over the past' ten' months .' for •■ teamsters, but none have been forthcoming, and tho horses have now had to bo turned out.. He stated- that •■;■■■ at' a . sitting of the Military Service . Board at Invercargill tho Inspector of factories said that plenty of men were /.awaiting farm work. Ho rang him up •next day, and asked for nine men—he /was prepared to pay up to 15s. a day, with keep, 'for men for . particular \ classes of work. 'Ho got two nien, and has,since telephoned up this Inspector daily for more men, without any result. 'Ha. had also communicated with the ; .'lnspector of in Dunedin, but has/been unable to get one man. ,In "Southland, he points out, they must ..have winter feed, and he says that the ■position is now serious, and must become; increasingly so as the months pass. Ho further assorts that tho Miliiary/lA.ppeal Board, is not paying duo attention to the pleas put' forward by ' farnrers, 1 who are first and last' pro•'ducefs, and states that , one of the -biggest producers in Southland who appealed the other day had his appeal '■■■-■ rejected. -In many cases the owners of f arms havo simply had to lock their gates anoYleave their farms..

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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3041, 30 March 1917, Page 8

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SHORTAGE OF FARM LABOUR Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3041, 30 March 1917, Page 8

SHORTAGE OF FARM LABOUR Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3041, 30 March 1917, Page 8

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