LABOUR SHORTAGE.
1000 NAVVIES TO BE IMPORTED
NEW SOUTH WALES NEEDS,
Bi Telenraph-VfCBS Assocmion-Copjrluhi Sydney, March 18. Mr. fSeeby, Minister fur Labour and Industry, announced in tho Assembly that the .Government could not construct (he n«cessary railways under the present conditions of the labour market, mid had therefore decided to import two thoii--and English navvies w«t bridge carpenters. Mr. M'Gowen. the Premier, ha? prepared an article for publication in a London paper showing Hint the Xew South Wales population during (he decade ended 1910 had increased by .'IOO,OOO, tho value of trade from .£50,000,000 to .£80,000,000, and bank deposits from ,£13,000,000 to JIS-2,000,000.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1392, 19 March 1912, Page 5
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103LABOUR SHORTAGE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1392, 19 March 1912, Page 5
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