FARM CADETS.
DISCUSSION AT CONCILIATION BOARD.
Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 23. The position of cadets 011 farms and 'fi!io,-.p-iiations and of learners and men who aro rocofSSdmded to work on farms to benefit their I'.ulth was referred to during tho oxainffi&b""‘--of_ Mr. E 13. Milton before the Concn. , tion Board yesterday. ' Mr. H. D. Acland expressed tho opinion that these three classes of workers on farms would come under the operation of an award, if such were made, on the basis' of the domands of the Farm Laborers Union, and would have to. be paid the rates demanded for boys or for general farm hands. .. Tho Chairman (Mr W. Minson) said it would bo lor tho Board to make provision, if thought necessary, lor cases of that kind. . Mr. Milton briefly gave his experience of cadets. “When I started on my own account,” ho said, “I had two of theso lads, who paid mo £IOO per annum to he taught sheepfarmlng. I have not had any since, and I don’t want another.” '
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2173, 24 April 1908, Page 2
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172FARM CADETS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2173, 24 April 1908, Page 2
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