SHORTAGE OF LABOUR
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Central H.B, Farmers' Complaint
(By Telegraph-
DANNEVIRKE, This Day. Many replies received by the Southern Hawke's Bay Farmers' Union in answer t° a questionnaire jt had sent to farmers indicated, said the president, that, rather than pay the extraordinary wages they had been asked to do for labour, and also owing to the fact that they were unahi© to obtain effieient labour, farmers had been forced to put their wives and ehildren into the milking-sheds. ■ Dairying members of th© union admitted that this was so and said it was an extremely serious point. The president said that in the spring, when. the farmers really required additional labour, tbe union's offiees bad been inundated wiib applieations for labour wbich could not be supplied.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 30, 19 February 1937, Page 5
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