Land Girls and Japanese Prisoners
QUESTION ASKED IN HOUSE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 14. Mr. Macklev (Masterton) gave notice in the House to-day to ask tlie Minister of Labour (Hon. P. C. Webb) if ho would take steps to protect young women engaged in vegetable production from unpleasantness and embarrassment through having to work alongside Japanese prisoners of war. Mr. Macklev said lie had been told that female university students recently man powered to a Government vegetable project at Greytown wero working in the same paddock within a few yards of Japanese prisoners of war. Mr. Macklev also gave notice to ask the Minister of Manpower if he would inquire into the circumstances respecting personal and written demands for union fees made on female university students man powered to vegetable growing at Greytown. Mr. Macklev asked if a manpower officer were legally entitled to deduct the amount of the demand from the girls’ wages.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 61, 15 March 1944, Page 4
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155Land Girls and Japanese Prisoners Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 61, 15 March 1944, Page 4
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