COUNTRY WORKERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15689, 17 August 1914, Page 4

COUNTRY WORKERS.

ADVICE OF THE MAYOR.

"DO NOT COME TO AUCKLAND."

" I trust that no one who is thrown out of employment owing to the war will come to Auckland to seek work," remarked the Mayor last night. "Always at this season of the year work is slack in the city, and the war will, of course, make conditions much worse. The cutting down of work has already resulted in a good deal of unemployment in the way of general labour, and I feel rather anxious as regards the artisan section when the buildings that are being erected at present will have been finished. I am told by architects and others that very few new buildings are being authorised. This will necessarily throw out of employment plumbers, painters, carpenters, etc. But, not only may artisans be thrown out of work, but clerks, office men, and shop-hands also, so that we may have a pretty big family of workless people of many different avocations. " Altogether wo may have a bad time in the city, and I desire to warn country workers that they will do well before rushing to the city to try to find work in tho country. At this season of the year there is plenty of work on the farms, and it would lie much better to lake up something of that kind than to come to Auckland and swell the ranks of the unemployed. I ghe this warning because ' have learnt of some instances of men coming from the Wa.ika.to only last week to look for work in Auckland and meeting with disappointment."