STATE LABOUR COMPETITION
NEW PLYMOUTH, Tue. (Sp.).— “Vacancies were advertised in the Post and Telegraph Department for youths of 15 and 16 years at £2/15/9 and £2/19/6 a week respectively. It is impossible for us to compete with these rates.”
So said Mr F. M< Yendell (Hamilton) when the employment of labour by the state was under discussion by the New Zealand Retailers’ Federation at its annual conference in New Plymouth yesterday. Mr Yendell said that there was a shortage of junior labour and every section of the employing community was entitled to its share of what was offering. An emphatic protest is to be made to the Government concerning “the unwarranted competition offered by the Government in circularising young people when leaving school, but not making the names available to private employers.”
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Northern Advocate, 16 March 1948, Page 2
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