ENGLISH CARPENTERS
PROMISED WORK FOR THREE YEARS ARRIVALS BY RAH&ITIKI [Pee United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, February 13. Fourteen Engish carpenters under eni gagement to the Fetcher Construction Company Ltd ■ arrived by the Rangrtiki on Saturday from Engand. They have beeen promisd work for. three years, although they state that they are under no actual contract, _ _ “ Building construction has fallen oil in England, and work there is now harder to get in our trade,” said ona of them. “We are to be paid the usual rate of wages, and we have paid our own passages. We expect to work under the' Government housing contracts In addition, there were one or two f carpenters who have come to New Zealand on their own account. The arrivals under engagement will complete the list of 124 carpenters and joiners who were engaged by the company m London,
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Evening Star, Issue 22882, 14 February 1938, Page 17
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143ENGLISH CARPENTERS Evening Star, Issue 22882, 14 February 1938, Page 17
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