A DULL TIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 195, 19 August 1927, Page 5

A DULL TIME.

PLIGHT OF GARDENERS. UCPLOTMEJrT SCARCE. many searching for woes. A statement in the "Star* of Tester - day by a business tnim that he had never known such a »carcity of men to do gardening work wa§ challenged today by a number of men who claimc.l that they w-ere ready and willing l« a ere jit any work offering. Some ol tbem saad that tbey had had^consideiaHe exf«erieno© a* gardeners, and one sajd tint he had not known work to be *o slack for 20 years. He i>,dmjtt«d that it was a seasonal occupation to a large extent. the best s>ca son being from spring to autumn. If a dry spell set in early be bojied that work would be offering vithm a few weeks, as he had found that the weather had considerable effcct at this tjmt of the year upon the amount of employment available.

"'We are not all loafers." said a landscape gardener, "'and we are anxious to get work of this kind." Another said that he had had extensive experience at a landscape gardener in a Southern citr, and had been ia Auckland for five years. He had been compelled to do labouring w'otk. and was only too anxious to get back to his old occupation. Another said that he had been making long trips on a bicycle ia search of work, but had had the mortifying erperiencc of always finding the positions filled. He had been fifteen years in Auckland, and wa.fi his worst experience.