Although the general position of labour requirements of farmers appeared to be about normal now. some of the larger sheep stations were in need of shepherds, said Mr J. C. L. Merton, placement officer at Palmerston North, when reporting to a meeting of the Manawatu District Council of Primary Production. It appeared that the back-country shepherd would be the "mainstay of the Expeditionary Force," as he was in the last war. remarked Mr Merton. The eagerness of the men to enlist could be quite easily understood. The Government, however, was doing everything possible to keep men in their jobs if they would be more valuable there than in the forces,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1939, Page 9
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