§ 53. Mr. Parkerasked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that the work of a full-time tractor driver employed by county war agricultural executive committees, using scarce and valuable machinery under little supervision on widely different types of land, is of greater national importance and requires greater skill than almost any work performed for individual farmers; and will he therefore instruct the committees to make sure that they have sufficient skilled drivers available, to cease advertising only for drivers not already privately employed and to retain the services of the best of the new trainees for their own employment?
Mr. HudsonI am sure that committees appreciate the importance of this matter and that no additional instructions on the lines suggested are required.