PART OF WAR EFFORT

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 186, 3 May 1940, Page 10

PART OF WAR EFFORT

Efficiency Of Farm Labour On t'lie recommendation of its lands committee, the annual coii'xeicncc o* the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association resolved yesterday that, in the investigation and use of the manpower of the Dominion, provision should be made to ensure tliat adequate, efficient, and intelligent faun labour is available for the national effort for increased production during the war. It was decided also that the association’s executive should confer with farmers’ organizations to assist effect being given to the resolution. Mr. G. R. Walsh (Franklin), who moved tlie motion, said the subject was not a political one. Farmers were producing to their full capacity under tlie conditions in which they found themselves already, and they must have efficient hands if they were to do the work of helping to feed England.

Air. B. J. Jacobs (Dominion vicepresident) seconded the motion, saying that the provision of efficient farm labour was part of the war effort. . Air. B. McLeod (Feilding) said there had been a -leakage of farmers as well as farm labourers.

Among other resolutions touching land was one asking the headquarters of the association to collect from branch associations information for the formulation of a land settlement scheme for the men who are now soldiers, the scheme to be referred to branches in time for discussion at the next conference.

Another resolution was tliat the attention of the Government should be drawn to the necessity of planning now for a scheme for the settlement ou the land of discharged soldiers of tlie second N.Z.E.F., and that the scheme should be submitted to the association at the earliest possible moment.