EMPHATIC DENIAL.
i A suggestion that newcomers to New Zealand are being given preference of employment oil the public works of the country was denied emphatically by the Minister of Labour in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon. Mr7>s W. T. Jennings (Waitomo) raised the issue by stating that in Taumarunui • there were many New Zealanders, in-' ' eluding returned soldiers, who were unable to obtain jobs on public works because people who had only been two or three weeks in the country were, being ; given preference. "I am not aware of it, I have-not heard of it, and no instructions have been given that new arrivals should be giv«n preference," declared the Hon. G. J. Anderson. "The hon. gentleman is misinformed." . "I ,am not!" immediately interjected Mr. Jennings. "So far as my Department jg conoarned," continued the Minister, "there is no such instruction and never will be." Mr. 'Anderson added that he would make , inquiries into the allegations..
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 83, 5 October 1922, Page 7
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158EMPHATIC DENIAL. Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 83, 5 October 1922, Page 7
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