LABOUR CONDITIONS AT NELSON.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13417, 15 May 1912, Page 6

LABOUR CONDITIONS AT NELSON.

SATISiat IORYHI-IPORT,

(Special to 'Tin Colonist.")

Wallins'iv-n, May 14

'i'Jse satisfactory labour conditions reported from tli-" Nelson district, m I *Toh were well maintained .icist month. li'Vc+ory omplc-ycrs complained of insui.ci^nt 'labour 'in the fruit preserving. t.-morino; and dic-ssuuiking trades, Tb^varlAhe demand i'or unskilled labour i-i quiot througiioiit No-.v Zoalaud tlio I'ialsO'ii a.gent of the Dcparimrnt is a-blr^ to reoort that "it is phasing to no^ ih^ .all iv.-:.! i-f .- .i'1 l-iiiy ou-pioyoa. pn.H that all outcide workers .have made fill} tirno. During the month thoro lias I:<-e,n a de-mand for l.uiKhinen also for men to cut scrub and do goners! farm work. .Very few local it'.'--n have applied at tho offic\> i'or cmplo.Mnent. A considorabla »:ai:iber has, however, come through from Greymout'n and tho West Coast. «.ii of v/hom havo been placed either at pi.'vato onipioymciit or at Government, road and-railway works."