JOBS TO BE KEPT OPEN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19100, 22 August 1936, Page 6

JOBS TO BE KEPT OPEN

PUBLIC WORKS MEN SEASONAL OCCUPATIONS MINISTER'S INSTRUCTION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. An assurance tJisft men engaged on 'public works who desire to take advantage of seasonal occupation's, such : as shearing, will nor bo deprived of the opportunity of: going, back 10 their positions on public-works, was ghttjri by the Minister of Public Wp.rks, the lion. ~R. Semplbj to-day. "No doubt there are a number of shearers employed on public works, and as the shearing season is approaching and some' of "these men dan see two to three years' of steady work ahead., particularly oii the South Island Main Trunk and the NnpierGisbornVHnesj 1 hey Will hesitate before they accept a job to go "to' the sheds, or other' seasonal occupations, for fear that there will bo no vacancy when the seasonal job is over,'-' said the Minister." " * r T afti giving instructions to the chief engineer "to" write to all district, engineers to allow shearers and other seasonal worker's to. take up their seasonal work' with the assurance that their jobs will be open to them on the public works. "I am doing this to assist primary industries aria.*to give to the farmer his fullquota of labour."