SHORTAGE FORESEEN
SKILLED LABOUR IN N.Z.
100 BUILDING WORKERS FROM AUSTRALIA
(Received October 27, 11 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
Mr. Andrew Fletcher, a director of the Fletcher Construction Company, of New Zealand, before sailing by the Awatea, stated that he had engaged a hundred Australian carpenters, bricklayers, and plasterers for work on New Zealand building schemes, as he could foresee a shortage of- skilled labour in New Zealand.
All the men engaged, he said, were single. ./'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 9
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