SHORTAGE OF MINERS
RELIEF FROM AUSTRALIA. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. MELBOURNE, May 6. It is stated in shipping circles that passages for 200 miners to New Zealand are being arranged. WEST COAST STARVING. FIELD FOR REPATRIATION. [Special to the ' Stab.'] CHRISTCHURCH, May 6. _ " Westport and Greymouth are practically stagnant for want, of men." declared Mr'T. M. Charters, District Repatriation Officer, to a 'Star' reporter to-day. "There is no difficulty whatever in placing fit men returning from the war, and, generally speaking, there is very little trouble "in regard to repatriation. On the West Coast there is plenty of work for fit men at mining, trucking, milling, and for ordinary laboring. Tho manager of one mine approached mo and stated that he could take 300 men for trucking at 13s 8d a dav. This, is, I understand, not skilled work like mining, and is not really hard work. Large numbers of miners and millers are also wanted." While on the West Coast, Mr Charters visited the Repatriation Committees at Greymouth, Westport, Reefton, and Hokitika', and ho found everything satisfactory, except a difficulty in finding light occupations for partially disabled men. This difficulty is fairly general throughout the district,' but in' regard to fit men, Mr Charters was asked if he could supply men from Canterbury owing to tho shortage of labor. The Coast was actually starving for want of labor.
SHORTAGE OF MINERS
Evening Star, Issue 17037, 7 May 1919, Page 2
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