FRANTIC RUSH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 283, 30 November 1938, Page 12

FRANTIC RUSH.

TO SECURE SHEARERS. ARRIVALS FROM AUSTRALIA. (Bjr Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, Tuesday. When the Maunganul arrived from Melbourne to-day six Australian shearers wore met on the wharf by the State Placement Officer and Immediately engaged to work on several sheep stations ( in rotation throughout the season. j °ff U ' r shearers disembarked at the t lulT and were eagerly accepted, one . farmer motoring from the Lakes district < r /'"M'loyment to these skilled , = " (,rr *" k th " Tasman. fr.nfrn "u" [ , " ,tf,,lPe of the almost ' Ihl . T. by '* '"mers to secure * ««hr*° r * # t^An * n Rn . v °ther Cto L n " rer * ,r *" n -Australia comIrf n# Ik ~ rnnnon for the «e«son. The feared w?n E? . XpW Zeal ""< l < *'* ! I* lost utilesM encouragement Is given to men who are servhL ; Tk B «; rentk^hi P " on the board." ( The Placement 6fficer said that appli- « ™ch "dat 01 Th < "* rer " W * re rei * rhi »ff him each day. There were about 40 blade and six machine shearers wanted but { such was the shortage that he couW not 1 ffive farmers satisfaction.