THE BOOT TRADE.
SCARCITY OF GIRL LABOUR IN AUCKLAND. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, December 21. A deputation of boo,t maufacturers informed the Hon. 3J A. Millar that, owing to the scarcity of girl labour and the exceptional activity of the trade their position is so acute that one large firm had taken its traveller off the road, being afraid to take more orders. They asked for assisted immigration girl labour. The present proportion was 2,000 males to 700 female workers. '
Mr Millar congratulated the trade on the prosperity and said that if they could supply evidence of orders being refused through scarcity of labour and if, as he understood, the unions raised no objection, he would instruct his inspectors to report with a view to recommending assisted immigration as proposed. "Stipulations were necessary, otherwise the Government might be dragged into a general system of assisted immigration that was not now desirable.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8318, 22 December 1906, Page 5
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151THE BOOT TRADE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8318, 22 December 1906, Page 5
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