Great Scarcity of Labour
■»'- 9. ' ' Statement by the Premier By Te!esr«ph.-Pr.£« Assooiation. . this day. In acknowledging' the address at Marl borough, Mr. SeddWkid that wb n n the Governrninc desired to put under wav the expenditure of appropriation this year, he was snrpused to find from tho Departmental heads that there wore not'o hundred men available in the whole colony to carry out tho woik, Private entorpriso and industries wore absorbing them nil, Thd scarcity' oMlnbour was causing him some anxiety, because summer was tort approacfclng, and he was 1 afraid thoV would not have latour available for farming operations. The Government were anxious to secura at least five hundred pick and shovel men. He reiterated the necessity for establishing a system'of universal pensions on the contributing basis.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1492, 27 November 1905, Page 3
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