LURED FROM FARMS?
-UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF SUSPECTED MR. POLSON’S WARNING Press Association WELLING TON, Today. Referring, at the executive meeting o£ the Farmers’ Union, to the Government's unemployment relief policy*, Mr. W. J. Poison, M.P., said that the effect would have to be matched very closely. Evidence had been supplied to him hy farmers and others that the result was to reduce the possibility of getting farm labour. They wanted to se e that men did not leave the farms, where they had good employment. The secretary read a letter from ths North Canterbury branch, in which it was stated that there was ,IUI plenty' labour available, but it was a little early to guage the position, a 3 the demand for farm labour would steadily grow as the season site relief measures had been put in hand at the wrong time, and May had been suggested as much more suitable.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 801, 23 October 1929, Page 11
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150LURED FROM FARMS? Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 801, 23 October 1929, Page 11
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