PUBLIC WORKS JOBS
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT FARM HANDS NOT ELIGIBLE [BY TELEGRAPH I'RESS ASSOCIATION] CIIRISTCIIUItCII, Sunday The Minister of Public Works, the Hon. 11. Semple, has taken steps to prevent any drift of farm labour to public works undertakings. He said yesterday that tho department's district engineers throughout the country had received definite instructions to employ only those men who were legitimately unemployed. It has been stated that competition from the Public Works Department in the market from which farm labour is drawn was looked on with grave concern by the farmers, who considered that tlic wages of 10s a day offered by the department would tako tho best men away from the farms. "It is'not fair," Mr. Semple said, "that those men who have been legitimately out of work should have their prospects of jobs spoiled by others who leave their jobs for better pay. It is not fair to the farmer that his employees should leave him, and not fair to the men for whom the public works have been started."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22499, 17 August 1936, Page 10
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