TRADE PROSPECTS
A BOOM COMING. SO SAYS THE PRIME MINISTER. [From Our Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, July 8. An optimistic reply to a deputation was made by the Prime Minister today on the subject of trade prospects for the coming year. It had been represented to him that there was so much unemployment that the Government should be careful with their immigration policy. “As a matter of fact,’’ said Mr Massey, “so far as farm labor and domestic labor are concerned, there is plenty of employment, arid, indeed, the demand is unsatisfied. I have received a number of communications from farmers’ ovgansiations complaining that farmers arc compelled to give up growing cereals on account of the scarcity of suitable labor. So far as ordinary employment is concerned, there was an impression that we were going to have a liard winter, but the Labor Department informs mo that it is able to find employment for all able-bodied applicants who come along on the various public works that are going on in different parts of the Dominion. We are going to have a ‘ boom ’ time in the spring and summer, I fancy, and there will be a tremendous demand for all classes of labor.”
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Evening Star, Issue 15539, 8 July 1914, Page 6
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201TRADE PROSPECTS Evening Star, Issue 15539, 8 July 1914, Page 6
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