ALIENS ON BRITISH FARMS.

Taihape Daily Times, 22 February 1918, Page 6

ALIENS ON BRITISH FARMS.

Sir George Cave’s scheme for permitting interned enemies to be engaged by farmers to do agricultural work has not met with the support that was expected. On inquiry at the Home Office a “Pall Mall Gazette” representative was officially informed, that at present about 1300 Austrians and Hungarians have been placed on farms, wher e they are reported to be doing useful work. Only in a few g cases have the men proved unsatisfactory. If incompetent or unwilling workers they are re-interned. No Germans are permitted to be engaged under this scheme, but there are at least 4000 Austrians and Hungarians in the camps whose services might well be utilised by farmers and others.