NEW ARRIVALS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 231, 24 June 1920, Page 5

NEW ARRIVALS

DIFFICULTIES IN. FINDING WORK. Apparently some of the immigrants arriving in this country from Home are experiencing difficulty in finding employment. A man who came out by the lonic recently called at the Trades Hall yesterday and inquired whether the officials there could do anything to assist him in finding work. He said he had a wifo and three young children, and that before leaving England ho was working in the cotton trade at Manchester. When he arrived' in the Dominion he bad .£29 in his pocket,, but his funds had been almost exhausted, for he was now down to his last.il. Having had five years' service with the Army, he had beon assisted to the Dominion under tho Imperial Government's scheme for settling demobilised soldiers in the overseas portions of the Empire, but this fact did not seem to be of much use in helpinghim to get work. He had been to the - Repatriation Department, and had been informed there that New Zealauders had to be found jobs before attention could bo given to ex-soldier iinmigrants from Home, and bis inquiries ■at the Labour Department had been of a fruitless nature also. He said that he had tramped all over Wellington, and had not been able to find a position anywhere. "Before I threw- up my job in Manchester," the man remarked to a Labour official, "the rosiest prospects ■were painted to me of life in New Zealand. I was told that work was plentiful, that wages were high, and that the cost of living'was lower than in the Old Country. Well, the position is that I wish I had iiever heard of New Zealand.' I don't want charity, I want work—work of any description. Can you help me to find it?" The man added that he could name twelve other men who came out by thelonic who ivero in a similar plight as himself. Another caller at the Trades Hall yesterda'y was; a grocer, who had arrived from Home recently, and who had not been able to obtain .employment in Wellington. He had tried in numerous establishments in tho city—not all of them of tho grocery trade, either—to get cmfiloyment, but so soon as he mentioned hat he was a new arrival he was politely and regretfully informed that there was no vacancy for him.