FEW COMING TO N.Z.
AUSTRALIAN BOOT WORKERS WAGES ABOUT THE SAME { Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON. June 19. Mr. G. Marston, secretary of the Boot Employees’ Union, denied an Australian cablegram stating that there had been an exodus of Austra- . lian boot workers to New Zealand. He declared that New Zealand wages were about on a par with Australian wages for a full week’s work and said that during the last three months he did not think a dozen men j had come to Wellington from Australia and the same applied to women. I When they did come they did not iseem to remain long.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 143, 20 June 1939, Page 8
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104FEW COMING TO N.Z. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 143, 20 June 1939, Page 8
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