MAORI LABOUR
OFFER TO COUNTY UNABLE TO ACCEPT In a letter to the Whakatane. County Council yesterday the District Employment Officer (Rotorua) stated that the Department was faced with the necessity of finding employment for some 20 men resident at Waiohau and for whom the Native Department was unable to find employment. The Works Department had suggested that the matter be placed before the Council for consideration as to whether it would be prepared to employ these men on the Te Teko-Galatea Road. If the granting of a £1 for £1 subsidy would enable the Council to go ahead, it was considered that representations to the appropriate quarter would be successful. The chairman said that he understood that similar requests were being made to local authorities in other parts of the Dominion. The engineer estimated that the cost of employment would be about £2500 annually. It was decided to reply expressing the Council’s regret that at the present time it was unable to take advantage of the offer.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 3, 24 July 1946, Page 4
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168MAORI LABOUR Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 3, 24 July 1946, Page 4
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