TRANSFER OF WORKERS.
TO SOUTH ISLAND WORKS. "NECESSARY," SAYS MINISTER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CIIRI ST CHURCH, Wednesday. Tho proposed transference of unemployed men from the North Island to works in the South Island was the subject of a protest by a deputation of South Island members of Parliament, which waited on the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. E. A. Ransom. Tho speakers urged that it was not reasonable to transfer outside workers to tho South Island, which already had a serious unemployed problem of its own. Mr. Ransom said it was necessary to send men from the North Island to the South Island, as there were no railway works adjacent to the Wellington Province. The construction of two railway works in the North Island had been stopped, and men had to be transferred to other works. The .men were going to definite works, not to relief works. "Wo do not want to set one island against the other," said Mr. Ransom, "but we are compelled to transfer men wliero necessary."
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 114, 16 May 1929, Page 27
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