BRICKLAYERS FOR QUEENSLAND.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 443, 27 February 1909, Page 13

BRICKLAYERS FOR QUEENSLAND.

MR. GRENFELL AND THE TRADES '.', COUNCIL. • , ; Following upon the publication of a cablegram .from Mr. Ranson. secretary of the Queensland Master Builders' Association, Mr. W. A. .Grenfell, seoretary of the' New, Zealand Federation of Master Builders, has received applications from a number of workers who. would like to accept employment in Queensland' if the terms and conditions are satisfactory.' Ho has written to' Mr. Ranson, asking him to reply by cable stating whether: there are any labour troubles in Queensland, what are the rates of wages, and the .probable duration of employment. On recniving this information, Mr. Grenfell will imake it public. Queensland newspaper; files have been searched, but no reterenoo; .to 1 - any labour dispute' haß been found, and Mr. Grenfell: therefore concludes that trade in-tho State is brisk and that there is a real shortage of labour.. ."'I do not consider," said Mr. Grenfell to a Dominion reporter, "that tho remarks made at the Trades and Labour Council about this matter oall for any reply, as the results will show whether the suspicions that have been expressed; are well founded or not." .■'-...' , ;