FARM LABOURERS.
AND PUBLIC WORKS JOBS. "NOT ELIGIBLE" SAYS MINISTER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. The Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, has taken steps to any drift of farm labour to public works undertakings. He said yesterday that the Department's district engineers throughout the country had received definite instructions to employ only those men who were legitimately unemployed. It has been stated that competition from the Public Works Department in the market from which farm labour is drawn was looked on with grave concern by the farmers, who considered that the wages of 16/ a day offered by the Department would take the best men away from the farms. "It is not fair," Mr. Semplo said, that those men who have been legitimately out of work should have their prospects of jobs spoiled by others who leave their jobs for better* pay. It is not fair to the farmer that his employees should leave him, and not fair to the men j for whom the public works have been I started." I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 194, 17 August 1936, Page 8
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