THE AUSTRIANS.
[Per Press Association.] Auckland, to-daj\ The Austrian Consul has received a cablegram from Tasmania offering employment to several hundred pick and shovel men on railway construction at 7s Gd per day. The Consul state 3 that if he can induce his countrymen to go to Tasmania on those terms, he will send the whole butch away. They would be far better off than they would be here at £1 a week, and would do away with the friction with the labor people. The Consul will accordingly try to persuade the Austrians to accept the Tasnianian offer. At a meeting of the Waitemata Couuty Counoil, it was stated that there was no gum land in the county except on private land, and no Austrians except a few who had been settled there for several years. It was decided ,not to bring the Kauri Gum Act into operation in the district.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8415, 14 January 1899, Page 2
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