WOMAN AT PLOUGH
BESIDE P.W.D. CAMP
KING' COUNTRY POSITION
Instances of farm labour shortage and their effect on women in the country were given by Mrs. C. Irvine, representing '.he Women’s Division, at x special meeting of the Otorohanga branch of the Farmers’ Union. Mrs. Irvine quoted the case of a woman who had to do her own ploughing while just across the road there was a large camp of public works employees who watched her doing it.
The farmer had to take the rejects from other industries for farm ,vork, whereas the very best skilled labour'should be available to the farming community, she said. The Vlinister of Marketing, the Hon. W. Mash, had definitely promised that an adequate number of farm labourers would be made available to carry on and to increase production. This promise had not been kept. She favoured unionism for all farmers in the Dominion. This was the only v/ay. to nake their weight felt 1 in Parliament.
The meeting passed a motion pledging its support of the Farmers' Union in any action it thought lit to take.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 24 October 1939, Page 4
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182WOMAN AT PLOUGH Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 24 October 1939, Page 4
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