AUSTRALIAN TRADESMEN
WORK IN DOMINION OVER 200 THIS MONTH (lVr I’mss Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. : It was announced yesterday by the Minister of Housing’and Immigration, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, that by the end of the month over 200 building tradesmen engaged in Australia by Mr. J. Hodgens, M.P., will have left Sydney for employment on housing work in the Dominion. The Awatea brings 30 men to Auckland to-day and the Wanganella has 39 for Wellington. The Niagara next Monday will have 47 and in the three subsequent trips of the Awatea to Wellington on March 20, and March 28 and April 3. she will bring further contingents of 55, 36 and 12 men respectively. Mr. Armstrong has now ascertained that the Labour shortage is more acute in Wellington than in Auckland, where there is rather a shortage of building materials. For that reason more men will be sent to Wellington than was originally intended.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 16
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155AUSTRALIAN TRADESMEN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 16
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