PUBLIC WORKS
JOBS FOR UNEMPLOYED
FARM MEN WARNED OFF
(By Telegraph—lJress Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, July 17,
It is the intention of the Government to avoid any competition between the Public Works Department ■ and farmers in the engaging ■of labour. This was made clear by the of Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) this evening.
"We are not going to allow.men to go away from farm jobs to take jobs that belong to men now out of work,". said Mr. Semple. "We want to draw all our men from among, the physicallyfit unemployed, and if other men try to take their jobs, we are going to put a stopper on it.
"I am going to strike a note of warning to those who might be just'waiting to take the jobs of those men who have been without work for long enough. If they try that on. they will get a rude shock. Anything like that will be stopped. If it shows up, we will tread on it good and hard."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 16, 18 July 1936, Page 10
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