DEARTH OF WORKMEN.
PROPOSED MISSION TO ENGLAND.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN" CORRESPONDENT.]
Dinedin, Thursday. The Evening Star states that the Labour Department is quite unable to cop© with the demand for men existing throughout the colony. This lias facial reference to bush men and roadmakers, of whom they cannot secure enough, although wages arc 9s per day of eight hours. The demand for these come* chiefly from the North Island, the demands of the Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Taranaki, and Wanganui districts being the most urgent. Even offers of "£2 a. week and found " for bushmen remain unapplied for. In view of this scarcity of what may be termed skilled unskilled labour, there is every possibility of an officer of tli Labour Department being despatched to England to select during the next ]2 monthlabouring men of the class required who an-, willing to emigrate.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13454, 5 April 1907, Page 6
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