AUSTRALIAN WORKERS.
ARRIVAL AT WELLINGTON
Per Press Association. AY ELLINGTON, March 20.
Hon. H. T. Armstrong met 47 tradesmen from Australia on their arrival this morning. Addressing them. he said that, of those already in New Zealand, 98 or 99 per cent- were em ployed, and if those who had just arrived wanted to work to-morrow they could do so. There had been complaints by one or two men who declared, he said, that they had been promised ten hours a week overtime, j hat promise had not. been made, as the ol> ject of the Government was to do away with overtime as soon as possible. He repeated the assurance made on Saturday, that accommodation, would he temporarily provided where there was a difficulty in that respect. Thanking the Minister for the, welcome one of the men said that they were glad to have come to a country where the Government was endeavouring to do something for the workers, and had provided a 40-hour week. They had left a country where actual starvation existed, and where the Government was opposing a. 40-hour week. He believed thev were all ready to become citizens of New Zealand and enjoy its social benefits for the rest of their lives.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 92, 20 March 1939, Page 6
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207AUSTRALIAN WORKERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 92, 20 March 1939, Page 6
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