TRADE PROSPECTS

Southland Times, Issue 17698, 9 July 1914, Page 5

TRADE PROSPECTS

AND THE UNEMPLOYED, DEPUTATION TO PREMIER. 'BOOM TIME IN SPRING." (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July *. An optimistic reply to a deputation was made by the Prime Minister to-day on the subject of trade prospects for the coming year. It had been represented to him that there was so ranch, unemployment tii at the Government should ha careful with its emigration policy. "As a matter of fact,’’ said Mr Massey, ‘ so far as farm labourers and domestic labour arc concerned there is plenty ofl employment. Indeed, the demand is unsatisfied. I have receivednumber of communications from farmers* orgaivi? aliens complaining that, farmers am compelled to go out of growing cereals on account of the scarcity of suitable labour. So far as ordinary employment i« concerned there is an impression that v c are going to have a hard winter. The Labour Department informs me that it is able to line! employment for all ahlebodied" applicants who come, along on the various public works going on in the different parts of the dominion. Wo are going to have a boom time in spring, and there will be a tremendous demand for all classes of labour,’*