FARMERS’ UNION
DISCUSSION ON RELIEF POLICY i,By Telegraph--Press Association). WELLINGTON, Oct; 23. Referring to an executive meet.ng of we Farmers’ Union to the Government’s Unemployment Relief Policy, Mr Poison M.P., said its effect would have to be watched very closely. Evidence had been supplied to him by farmers and others that the result was to reduce the possibility of getting farm labour. Tney wanted to see that men did not leave farms’ where they had good employment. ' The Secretary read a letter from North Canterbury Branch in which he stated there was still plenty of labour, available but it was a little early to gauge the position as the demand for farm labour would steadily grow as the season advanced. It would seem that wholesale relief measures had been nut in hand at the wrong time, and May had been suggested as much more suitable. ; \ . 4 .. •
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1929, Page 5
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