BOYS ON FARMS
position in england The opinion that the Government should do something to induce boys leaving school to take up farm work, was expressed by Cr. F. West at the meeting of the Inglewood County Council yesterday during a discussion on the difflculty of securing suitable farm labour, and its effect on production. In England, he said, 2400 boys who were leaving school were being calied up for farm work. He understood that they were to receive 2s 6d a week wages for a start, and tlie Government paid the farmer 12s a week towards their board for the first four weeks, 8s for the next four weeks, 4s for the third four weeks, and thereafter the farmer would have to meet the whole cost of the board. In New Zealand, while married farm labour was being subsidised. he understood that no subsidy was being given on farm labour under 21 years of age. The 40-hour week attraction would prove the deterrent to schoolboy farm labour, remarked a councillor.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1940, Page 2
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