UNEMPLOYED CARPENTERS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12469, 19 February 1909, Page 3

UNEMPLOYED CARPENTERS.

- WelliHgton, Feb-m;: „ frequent complaictts have*: recently been made that tla'ere is a dearth: of employment in Ne\v Zealand for carpenters. The following might be good news for carpenters who: are but of WQrk^in the JDomiriion. A genilemari well knownj in business circles the city is in^receipt , of ■ cprreispondence IT O. 1" a A«rge building contractor :in BnsbaHe, who states that "just;at present there is a big boom in the building, trade.at Brisbane^ with the rssult that there is a dirth of trades'.men. I,understand that things ■ in New Zealand at present are dull and that, trade is fairly slack. I know that; .during ',tlie time of depression here a 'good;niany Queensland-work-men went over to your Dominion :in search of employment^ and possibly if they knew that things were oh the up grade here they would come;, back again." • ■■ •. ,'