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Evening Star, Issue 15293, 19 September 1913, Page 5

Considerable difficulty has been experienced by the Federal Public Service Commissioner in obtaining mechanics for the telephone and telegraph work in the Postal Department. Juniors have been trained for the positions, but the supply has .not been sufficient to cope with the increasing amount of work For some weeks now Mr M'Lachlan has invited applications for 10 positions in West Australia, but there has been no response from any of the States. As a last resort he has requested the Prime Minister to import them. Mr Cook expressed great surprise that such a necessity had arisen. He did not want to import mechanics, but the work of the department could not be held up, and if they could not bo obtained in the Commonwealth they would have to be. got from elsewhere. He hesitated to think there were not young men ia AusUalia capable ef doing the work.