SHORTAGE OF LABOUR
Conference To Be Held
A meeting of all parties concerned with shortage of labour and immigration will be held in Christchurch soon, probably in
January. The Canterbury Progress League received this advice from the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. The letter said when the league requested the meeting a suggestion that local chambers should call a conference on the same subject was received from the Associated Chambers of Commerce.
The league will ask local bodies their views on the labour situation before the meeting. The president (Mr C. A. Inch) and the vice-president (Mr B. J. Drake) were elected to represent the league.
Businesses were now “bidding against each other” for labour, said Mr E. T. Beaven. It was common to lose a man because someone else offered him £2 or £3 a week more. “I think if this conference was held throughout New Zealand it would convince the Government something should be done. Let’s get workers in unskilled and we’ll teach them skills.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 12
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