WEST COAST LABOUR MARKET

Grey River Argus, 10 November 1949, Page 3

WEST COAST LABOUR MARKET

The following positions are recorded at the office of the Department of Labour and Employment, Greymouth.

In the male section local vacancies include—A, panelbeater, a spring maker and a motor t coach builder, three cabinetmakers or three young men to learn the trade young men for State forestry work, insurance canvasser and collector, dairy farm manager, two qualified electricians, young men for garage work, youth to learn the grocery trade, senior grocery shop assistant, two young men for the manufacture of concrete roofing tiles, three qualified A grade motor mechanics, youth for employment with a tailoring firm, hardware storeman, preferably a man with experience, two youths and a young man for dairy farm work. The Railway Department, Greymouth, require surfacemen for town and .country work, young men for appointment to the traffic and locomotive branches, and trade-men-carpenlers, plumbers, fitters, painters and a bricklayer. Retail firms need junior ' and senior male shop assistants. Builders require qualified carpenters and a plasterer. A junior male clerk for a merchant’s office, an apprentice moulder, a boilermarker’s apprentice, two turners, a journeyman moulder and two labourers for an engineering firm, a junior storeman for a produce firm. General vacancies include:—A power station operator, a married couple for a mixed farm in South Westland, bushmen and skilled sawmill hands for mills throughout the district. -k In the female section vacancies offering include: — Junior and senior shop assistants—also Christmas casuals, junior and senior female clerks and shorthand-typists, hotel employment for cooks, generals, housemaidwaitresses and housemaids; for several domestic workers and laundry hands. Public hospitals require probationer nurses and wardsmaids, probationer nurses and two third cooks are wanted fob the mental hospital, Hokitika.