Stowaways offered jobs
PA Auckland Two African stowaways have been offered work by an Auckland lawn-mowing contractor.
Mr Tony Nicholls saw photographs of the pair, Sudi Said, aged 15, and Andrew Mhando, aged 21, in a newspaper and made the offer.
“They come from a place where they have been oppressed so I thought I would be able to offer them some work. “I will teach them how to use big mowers and there will be a group of young people for them to talk to.”
The pair, who arrived in Auckland on June 30 in the African famine relief ship Ngahere, still do not know whether they will be allowed to stay in this country.
The latest extension of their temporary visas allows them to stay until the end of next month. The Labour Department is waiting for their identities to be confirmed by the Kenyan and Tanzanian Governments.
The director of the Labour Department’s Immigration Division, Mr Don Bond, said the pair had not been issued with work per-
mits. “We realise it must be soul-destroying for them to do nothing and we will not stand in their way if they
engage in some sort of activity, provided they are not depriving an unemployed New Zealander of a job,” he said.
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