LABOUR ON FARMS
SUBSIDY BY STATE PAY OF 4000 MEN UP TO 10,000 SOON MINISTER EXPLAINS (Per Press Association.) WANGANUI, this day. Within the past four months the Government has placed 4000 men on subsidised work clearing un farms and by next winter, or within the next year. it. is hoped to have 10,000 men so engaged.
This statement was made last nighl by the Minister of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Webb, to a deputation of farmers which waited on him with reference to some of the difficulties which farmers are experiencing in regard to the employment of labour.
Mainly under the 4B scheme, up to 75 per cent of the wages oi men cn gaged on clearing and draining farm land which, when brought into cultivation would add to the productive capacity 0 f the country, was heing oaicl by the Governmmt, -aid Mr Webb. He made an appeal to fanners to co-operate with the Government rather than talk about the terrible shortage of farm labour.
“There is not an able-bodied man who is prepared to go where the job is who is out of work in New Zealand at the present," said the Minister. He expressed the belief that never in New Zealand's history had such been the case.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20102, 23 November 1939, Page 14
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