SEASONAL WORKERS
FULL EMPLOYMENT PLAN “BEST FOR COUNTRY” (P.R.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 25. If seasonal workers such as shearers and freezing works employees, who had made big money during the season, wanted employment in the otl-season alter a reasonable rest they must be given the advantage of obtaining employment through the service provided in the bill, said the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P Fraser, in the House of Representatives last evening in the committee discussion on the Employment Bill. Whatever money a man had, it was in the interests of the country that he should be working, said Mr. Fraser. Mr. W. J. Poison (Opp., Stratford) had said that there were men in seasonal occupations who earned in the season sufficient to keep them for the full year. It would appear that, under the bill, such men were entitled to be found work. There might be periods when it would be difficult to find employment for 'everybody, and ■ he thought that those who earned sufficien to keep them in comfort for the year by seasonal work should stand "down for a period.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21853, 25 October 1945, Page 6
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