Agriculture and War.
LONDON, Jan. 24. Lord Derby and Mr Prothero stnto that the urgent military situation requires the taking of men under 25, even from an industry so essential as agriculture. On the other hand agriculture asks to retain all its skilled labour. There are conflicting claims oniy reconcilable if the soldier and the farmer each yields something. Instead of sixty thousand offered by the Tribunal as unessential, only thirty thousand will be called up. Without the War Cabinet a section of the military authorities arranged that substitutes would include a proportion skilled in the management of horses.
Also on the return from the colours of men not accustomed to a steam cultivator they would send other men to as-, sist in ploughing and sowing, thus ascuring a volume of labour exceeding the past eight months.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1917, Page 1
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