AUSTRALIAN TRADESMEN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 16

AUSTRALIAN TRADESMEN

TWO BATCHES NEXT WEEK STATE HOUSING WORK A UCKLAND, WELLINGTON (Per Press Association.) j AUCKLAND, this day. j From -10 to 50 tradesmen engaged in Australia by Mr. J. Hodgens, M.P., Ito work under the State housing ■scheme, will arrive in Auckland on Tucsd'ay in. the Awatea, according to advice received by the Minister of Housing, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, j They will comprise the second party j under engagement to arrive in the l Dominion, the first being due in Wellington on Monday. I The men arriving in Auckland will j proceed immediately to jobs provided 'by builders carrying out contracts under the housing scheme, Mr. Armstrong stated. It is stipulated in their engagement that they will work under the housing scheme only nnd, for the time being, all the men. brought from Australia will be confined to contracts in Wellington and Auekianu. Numerous applications have been made to the Government by builders outside of Auckland 1 and' Wellington for Australian tradesmen, but these cannot be entertained at present because the housing shortage is far more acute in these two provinces than elsewhere in the Dominion. The men arriving on Tuesday include bricklayers, plumbers, tilers, carpenters and other skilled tradesmen in the proportion necessary in the industry. In some instances, the men are married, although preference was given to single men.