LABOUR CONDITIONS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17096, 19 February 1916, Page 4

LABOUR CONDITIONS.

SATISFACTORY POSITION. The reports received bv the Labour Department from the principal centres for the week ended February 12 show that the conditions as to employment throughout the Dominion remain very satisfactory, says the “Post.” At Auckland there were twenty-five applicants for work, and of these tinea, married men and six single men wore placed, all in private employment, and the remainder are got considered as specially urgent eases. At Christchurch were forty-seven applicants. _ Seventeen married men and eight singly men were placed, twenty-three in Government and two in private employment. Twelve carpenters had been sent to work at the military convalescent sanatorium at Hanmer. There are openings at the Otira works for good tunnel men. and at Culverden twelve ballast pit hands, but few suitable men are available for this work. J.n Wellington there were eighty-seven applicants for work. Twenty-nine married and fifty-one single men were placed, seventy-‘eight in private and two in Government work. A great number of private employers are making use of the Labour Bureau when they require workers. Of the seven for whom work is still required, the majority are elderly men not fitted for hard work. The Wellington office is in the happy position of being able to place practically all likelv applicants. No return is to hand from Dunedin. At Greymouth there was one applicant, who was placed: at Oamaru there was one applicant, and tit- Timaru there "were two. all of whom are still unplaced; at Palmerston North there were three applicants, all placed ; at Napier one. unplaced; at Mast-erton, three, one placed; at Nelson, three, all placed. No unemployed were returned at Wanganui.