"NO PLACE FOR SLACKERS."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19388, 24 July 1926, Page 11

"NO PLACE FOR SLACKERS."

LETTER FROM NEW ZEALAND.

ADVICE TO WORKING MEN. [from our own correspondent.] LONDON, June 2. Mr. T. E. Armitage, of Auckland, and late of Huddersfield. offers some useful advice to readers of the Examiner regarding employment in the Dominion. He counsels the working man of England, unless he has work to come to, not to venture trying for work on arrival in any large town in New. Zealand. Better chances await the man who will take work in the country, where opportunities will come his way, which is mostly labouring, cutting timber, and faijrn work. " Many skilled tradesmen are working for a New Zealand labourer's wage of 14s a day," says Mr. Armitage. " They cannot secure their own work. -So the men before coming out should actually know that they must be prepared to fight hard to win. Determination and grit are .required, with some capital for commencing business, or having to wait for a position if thinking of settling in the towns instead of the country. We have many unemployed in Auckland. Men'of ability are only too pleased to take any ,kind of work; they seem to stay because of their families. " I contend it is far better for the man to get work here first and then send for his family when he has got settled. We have many shop assistants, clerks and tradesmen who cannot find positions. Labouring classes will be more successful. New Zealand is good for health, but it calls for men* to work the land, not the towns. Slackers will be well advised not to venture trying to become rich here. New Zealand' wants men for the land, sheepfarmers, fruit growing, etc."