Farm Machinery to Overcome Labour Shortage
WELLINGTON, Sept. 21. The only hope of immediately offsetting the heavy labour draw-off from primary industries to secondary —from '144,4’56 miles in 1936 to 107,787 at the last census—was the encouragement of the maximum ■efficiency and the maximum use of lab-our-saving machinery on farms. This was stated by Mr A. H. Ward, statastician and director of herd improvement to the New Zealand Dairy Board, in an address on the guaranteed price to the Wellington Branch of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand. That remedy. Mr Ward said, involved an important principle that any such drive for increased productivity must not be capitalised against the farmer in his price structure or the result would be the defeat of any long-term advantage of the guaranteed price procedure and would inhibit the "productivity and welfare of the dairy industry.
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Grey River Argus, 22 September 1948, Page 3
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