LABOUR FOR HARVESTING.
I POSITION IN CANTERBURY. [BY telegraph.—own correspondent.] CHKISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The secretary of the General Labourers' Union, Mr. E. J. Howard, states that the number of farm labourers who call at the Trades Hall seeking work show that there is no shortage of that class of labour in this province. ," Dozen 3of good strong, able, practical harvesters," he says, " call at the Trades Hall daily asking if harvest work is available. If farmers who say there is a shortage apply to us we can pat them in touch with ample supplies of labour." It was stated to-day that harvest labour is offering in abundance and that men have to be turned away in considerable numbers because there is no demand for this class of worker. One labour bureau has had at least 50 applicants for such work during tho last few days. Of these the manager was able to place only half a dozen. He got into communication with other labour agencies and found that a similar state of things existed there. Each agency had numbers of harvesters awaiting employment on its becks. It is evident that at the present time no abnormal conditions preva.l.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16434, 10 January 1917, Page 8
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