WINTER EMPLOYMENT.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16848, 31 May 1920, Page 7

WINTER EMPLOYMENT.

• V PROSPECTS VERY GOOD.

In pre-wai* years the prospects of employment in the winter time were often a matter of concern to many men, particularly unskilled workers, but the position is entirely different to-day (says Saturday's "Dominion"). This winter there is plenty of work offering. At the present time, practically no applicants for employment are on tho books of the various Labour Departs ment bureaux throughout the country. "Evorv man who comes along to Us in placed with little delay," remarked an official of the Labour Department to a repox-ter on Friday, "and ive do not see any reason to doubt that this state of affairs should not continue. Unskilled workers, especially those employed in the building trado, are well off. Right throughout the Dominion there is plenty of demand for building trade workers." The reporter was informed that tho position was similar in all other classes of work. The process of absorption on the labour market was so rapid that the employment bureaux were not troubled very much by inquiries, and that was regarded as a very good sign. That neither the unskilled worker nor the tradesman has anything to fear this winter was evidenced by the fact that all descriptions of employment could be readily obtained. For women workers, also, 'it appeared that the demand was keen, especially as regards domestic duties. Women coming out from the Old Country would not havo the slightest difficulty in getting work if they applied to the employment branches of tho Department.

Tn to immigrants, a curious, yet satisfactorv, fact had been noted. Everv month the Department received 20 or 30 letters from prospective new arrivals asking that positions bo found for them to take up when they reached New Zealand. The actual number of such people who called on the Department subsequently, however, was invariably found to be verv small, and apparently the others had obtained situations by their own »endenyoiirs. In Anril only one- immigrant applied to the Department for assistance, and he was placed right away.