BUILDING TRADESMEN
MORE THAN 200 FROM AUSTRALIA l United Preae A-wide'ioni AUCKLAND, 13tJi March. Ii was announced to-day by the Min ister of Housing am) Immigration, Mr. Armstrong, that by the end of the month mure than 200 building tradesmen en gaged in Australia bv Mr llodgens. M l’., wiil have left. Sydney for employment on bousing work in the Dominion. The Aw,tea will griug .50 men to Auckland tomorrow, the Wanganella has 39 for | Wellington, the Niagaa next Monday will have 47, and in three subsequent trips I of the Awatca to Wellington on 20lh -March, 28th March, and 3rd April, she, will bring further contingents of b 5, 36. }
and 12 men respectively. Mr Armstrong ha* now ascertained that the labour shortage is more acute i 1 Wellington than in Auckland, wlicie there is rather a shortage of buildiug mat esials. For that reason more meu will he sent to Wellington than was origanally intended.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 14 March 1939, Page 3
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