A WEEK’S GOOD WORK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23054, 3 December 1936, Page 15

A WEEK’S GOOD WORK

DUNEDIN PLACEMENT OFFICE OVER 100 POSITIONS FOUND Since the inauguration of the State Placement Service, Dunedin employers have consistently availed themselves of its facilities for providing additions to their staffs, and this co-operation has resulted in a uniformly high average of weekly placements in private employment in the city. This average was considerably increased during the week ended November 27, when the placements in permanent, temporary, and casual work numbered 110, Occupational particulars are shown in the list below, from which it will be noted that 35 occupations are represented in the total.

Other interesting features of these placements are that 42 of them are on a permanent basis, that increases in staffs became necessary in almost every one of the businesses that provide every-day essentials, and that the individual totals included 16 carpenters and 12 general farm workers. Forty temporary and 23 casual positions complete the list, which is as follows: —

Bakers, barmen, boot and shoe factory workers, boot repairers, brass finishers and polishers, bricklayers, butchers, canvassers, carpenters, chemists’ assistants, clerks, cooks, drivers, firemen, foundry workers, furriers, gardeners, hairdressers, hotel porters, ice-cream factory workers, labourers, machinists, miners, painters and decorators plasterers, plumbers, salesmen, seamen, shearers, shepherds, shopkeepers. (seven prominent kinds), stonemasons, storemen, window dressers and woollen mill workers and spinners.