THE SUGAR INDUSTRY.
LABOURERS WANTED. " SCARCITY IN QUEENSLAND. United Press Association— Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April'l7. Mr William Hughes,, who is at present in Vienna drying to engage several hundred labourers for the Queensland sugar plantations, is offering free passages to Queensland. The overtures to engage men in Italy failed. / The Emigrants Office in connection with the Colonial Office warns British eini'graixts to remember the climatic conditions of the isugar farms in North Queensland. It, considers it very questionable if they will be able to work under the tropical conditions. Recruiting for ordinary farm labourers is proceeding satisfactorily, but there have been many defections since the conditions were fully explained. ••'■ . SYDNEY, April 18'. The Mr Hughes, who is mentioned in the cable message as engaging labour in Vienna, is ail employee of the Colonial Sugar Company, not Mr W. M. Hughes. The company despatched him to Europe to engage labour for the Queensland sugar growers, and lis has authority to secure 1050 men.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13264, 19 April 1907, Page 5
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163THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13264, 19 April 1907, Page 5
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