SEEKING WORK IN N.Z.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 6

SEEKING WORK IN N.Z.

AUSTRALIANS ARRIVE FOUR WOMEN IN FARIT (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. _ Over 20 men and women of various occupations, who arrived by the Awatea, to-day are connected with the Government enlistment. The men’s callings ranged from farming to iron and steel work. Four women included a waitress, a tailoress, a bookkeeper and a canister maker. No difficulty is anticipated in placing the skilled workers. 26 LAND AT AUCKLAND STARTING! TO-MORROW (Por Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Twenty-six Australians arrived by the Awatea from Sydney to work under the State housing scheme. With others arriving at Wellington by the Wanganella to-day, they are the first of hundreds of tradesmen being enlisted in Australia by Mr. J. Hodgcns. M.P. Except for an electrician, who is being sent to Wellington, all tnc men are starting work to-morrow on loco: housing contracts. “It is not because the workmen in New Zealand are not good ones that you are arriving to-day; it is because the good workmen we have have put the Labour Government, into power and have given it a big job to do,” said Mr. J. A. Lee, Under-Secretary for Housing, to Australian tradesmen on the Awatea. He added that they would be teaming in with a fine body of New Zealand tradesmen. In welcoming the Australians as good tradesmen and unionists, Mr. Kenncrley, secretary of the Carpenters’ Union, said that at the moment tilings were not over-busy in Auckland owing to a temporary slackening of commercial building. However, there would be no difficulty placing tradesmen. “The Government has a big job on hand and the greatest problem has been finding good tradesmen,” said Mr. H. Campbell, secretary of the Painters’ Union Council.