DECLINING HERDS
100,000 FEWER COWS FARM LABOUR PROBLEM “Unfortunately, during the last three years our dairy herds have declined, and there are now. 100.000 milking cows fewer than in 1936,” said Mr. E. M. Edkins, chairman of the Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, at the annual meeting in Hamilton on Saturday. “This is principally due to the inability of the dairy farmer to obtain efficient labour. A great many of the farm workers have drifted away from the farms to more lucrative jobs with shorter hours. The farmer, therefore, has had to reduce his herd to the number of cows he and his family can conveniently manage themselves. “If this is to be a prolonged war, making it necessary for us to send numbers of troops away from New Zealand, the farm labour problem will become even more difficult.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20065, 11 October 1939, Page 14
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