PREFERENCE FOR RELIEF WORK.
STRINGENT REGULATIONS
REQUIRED,
Once again there are reports from the country that labour is being attracted from the farms to Government relief woiiks for unemployed. Specific instances were (quoted at a meeting of the Wellington Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union. In one ease a ploughman has left a permanent job to dp afforestation work, and in another a farmer has to milk 70 cows single-handed because he cannot get heip. An end must be made immediately of this state of affairs (comments the Dominion). The Minister of Labour should at once frame stringent regulations which will prevent men’s engagement on relief works when they have voluntarily left private employment. It is the gravest indictment of the present irresponsible policy that the farmer should suffer from labour shortage in the busy producing season while the Goyernment finds jobs for live or six thousands men oil relief works.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40028, 26 November 1929, Page 3
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151PREFERENCE FOR RELIEF WORK. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40028, 26 November 1929, Page 3
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