WORKMEN WELCOMED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) i AUCKLAND, This Day. "It is not because the workmen in New Zealand are not good ones that you are arriving today; it is because the good workmen we have have put the Labour Government into power and given it a big job to do," said Mr. J. Al Lee, Parliamentary Under-Secre-tary in charge of Housing, when welcoming the tradesmen on the Awatea. He added that they would be teaming j in with a fine body of New Zealand tradesmen. Welcoming the Australians as good tradesmen and unionists, Mr. Kennerley, secretary of the Carpenters' Union, said that at the moment things were not over-busy in Auckland owing to a temporary slackening in commercial building. However, there would be no difficulty in placing tradesmen. "The Government has a big job on hand, and the greatest problem has been finding good tradesmen," said Mr. H. Campbell, secretary of the Painters' Union Council.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 10
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155WORKMEN WELCOMED Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 10
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