FARM WORK
ACCEPTANCE BY UNEMPLOYED MEN REFUSAL WITHOUT REASON TO BE PENALISED WITHDRAWAL OF RELIEF By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, This Day. When the Minister of Labour (the Hon H. T Armstrong) was replying to an urgent question by Mr T. D. Burnett (Temuka) in the House of Representatives as to whether the standdown period of a fortnight for seasonal farm work was to be insisted upon during the forthcoming season, Mr Armstrong said that the policy of his Department was to assist in every direction in enabling farmers to obtain necessary labour and the standdown period would not be imposed on men who left subsidised work to accept such engagements as shearing, haymaking, etc. The Minister further stated that lists were being drawn up of all single men fit for farm work. The lists included men on sustenance, on Scheme 5, and Scheme 13, and names would be drawn by ballot for placement on a waiting list. Men on this list would be given an opportunity of advancing reasons why they should not be sent to farm work, and if such work were refused without a satisfactory reason, such men would be denied further relief of any kind.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19380819.2.116
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1938, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
198FARM WORK Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1938, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in