UNSKILLED WORKERS
ARRIVAL FROM OVERSEAS EFFECT ON LABOUR MARKET The advertised inquiry overseas for skilled tradesmen is having the effect of attracting largo numbers of un " skilled labourers from Australia an elsewhere to the Dominion. These m en are (swelling the ranks of the unemployed., according to employers, who comment upon the high percentage o inquiries they are receiving£;for employ* ment from recent arrivals from over* seas. ; , While no official information on t subject is obtainable, the tendency been apparent for some time. 1 Aorangi brought quite a large n« her oi ! labourers from Australia on JV ° " day, and the Rangitata recel l £ brought labourers from' Southern land. There appears to bo an mipr sion among some of the new orrlv ,v a that work awaits them with Public Works Department.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23325, 19 April 1939, Page 12
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