WORKMEN FROM BRITAIN
100 LAND AT AUCKLAND MINERS FOR WEST COAST (Pit Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. More than 100 English workmen arrived at Auckland 'by the Rangitata from London yesterday. The majority of them were carpenters, but there were also a fairly large number of Welsh miners, who are going to Westport to work in the coal mines there. The larger party consisted of carpenters and builders' labourers and among them were Englishmen, Scotsmen and Irishmen. A number stated they had been persuaded to come to the country by one of twe reasons: They had either heard of Dominion conditions from tradesmen who had only recently come to the country, or else they had decided, that New Zealand was worth "prospecting" as a result of what they had read in English newspapers.
Some of the carpenters are under contract to the Government and expect to be assigned to the housing scheme. Others have come to New Zealand to see if conditions are as good as they have heard them to be.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 16
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