IMMIGRATION OF ARTISANS.
I note that Mr. Savage is anxious to get more artisans, especially carpenters, from over- . seas. I am a carpenter, and eo I speak front experience. There was a temporary shortage... for a few months before Christmas. I had to attend to some work of my own and so gave ' up • the job I was working on at Christmas. Now I am ready to take up building again, •? and have been to some fifty jobs, without result. They are all full up. I krww quite a number of carpenters who can't get work. Each boss seems to have his regula* gang ibid will not take on more. Bead the papers and we find carpenters advertising for work, but rarely carpenters wanted. I know at the lafct * immigration influx several years ago men were guaranteed two years' work. Soon thing* were slack and the poor New Zealanders were discharged, especially the miners. At present there may be a temporary flux of work, but this cannot continue, and then we suffer. It seems like Government bluff. N.Z. WAKE UP.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 8
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