Carpenters And Builders Arrive
[Special to “Northern Advocate”l AUCKLAND, This Day. Seeking employment in New Zealand, batches of carpenters and allied tradesmen have been arriving in Auckland in practically every ship from Australia during the past few weeks.
These arrivals are apart altogether from the Government’s move to import skilled tradesmen through enlistments by Mr Hodgens, who is now in Australia.
Six more carpenters arrived by the Wanganella to-day, and also three master builders, who are investigating the possibility of transferring their businesses to New Zealand. One said they could easily bring 50 men over. Sydney is Dead. “Things have gone dead in Sydney,” he said, adding that he knew of a plasterer who employed 40 men and who now had no work. He hoped to be able to cable Sydney within a few days asking for carpenters and other tradesmen to join him here.
He said that before leaving Sydney he had talked with Mr Hodgens. and felt sure that under the Government’s scheme only the best tradesmen would be brought over.
“Mr Hodgens is a man who knows his job, and there need be no fear that New Zealand will be flooded with men of an inferior type,” he added.
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Northern Advocate, 1 March 1939, Page 7
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