LABOUR & COUNTY WORK.
CONTRACTORS' LOSSES.
(By Telegraph-Special Oorresnondent.) Feilding, November 27. bpeakmg at the annual meeting of tho Kiwitea County Council at Kimbolton today, the chairman (Mr. Fowler), in his annual review, said? that the greatest trouble was the scarcity of labour. Only tnat lay, in respect to a contract for 9 .£IOOO, they had received but one tender.' . Ihe labour problem was getting more acute every year, and it was time thatthe council should consider whether something should not be done to make matters easier for the contractors than had been the case in the past. Personally, he did not know one contractor who nad made money, and he knew several who had lost all they possessed in carrying out county work. He noticed that the Federation of Labour was gathering statistics for the purpose of opposing immigration before the Empire Trade Commission, and he thought that it was the duty of the'eouncil to take steps to obtain evidence from the other side.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1609, 28 November 1912, Page 4
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164LABOUR & COUNTY WORK. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1609, 28 November 1912, Page 4
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