A THOUSAND MEN WANTED.
a NORTH TRUNK RAILWAY DELAYED. (By '-'clßgraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. At Upper Hutt last night Mr Seddon said that a thousand pick i and shovel men were still required for i the North Lsland Main. Trunk railway works. He would be asked next session why he had not expended the money voted for the Main Trunk railway, which Parliament expected to be completed before the. next general election, but how could they expend the money when they could not get men. Private employers were taking the best men from the co-operative works, and fanners were, complaining that they could not get labour for the harvest. Yet, if they adopted an immigration scheme they would at once be found fault with for flooding the labour market to the detriment of those, who were already in the country. Personally he had complete confidence that as years went by there would be still more work in the country than there was to-day.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 36, 10 February 1906, Page 6
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164A THOUSAND MEN WANTED. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 36, 10 February 1906, Page 6
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