§ Captain C. BATHURSTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture if arrangements can be made during the present corn harvest for supplying farmers with such soldier labour as may be available without requiring, as in other cases, the intervention of the Labour Exchanges, seeing that the complication of the machinery of supply thereby involved prevented in many districts the utilisation of such labour during the recent hay harvest?
§ Mr. ACLANDI regret that I cannot see my way to vary the arrangements referred to, which have been settled after careful consideration of all the various circumstances which had to be taken into account. The intervention of the Labour Exchanges is necessary to ensure that the proper conditions of employment are fulfilled, and there is every reason to believe that they were the means of rendering soldier labour available in districts where it would not otherwise have been obtainable. I cannot agree that during the recent hay harvest the intervention of the Labour Exchanges prevented the utilisation of this kind of labour.