SCARCITY OF LABOR
THE PREMIER EXPLAINS.
{Per Press Association.J Wellington, Saturday,
At the Upper Hust last night Mr SedI don said: ‘‘There are still one thousand pick and shovel men required for the I North Island Main Trunk railway works. Qe would be asked next session why be bad not expended the money voted for the Ma’n Trunk railway, which Parliament expected to bo oompleted before next goneral elect’oD, but bow could they I expend money when they could not get men ? Privale employers were taking the best men from co-operative works, and ] farmers were complaining they could not I I get labor for the harvest, yet if they adopted an immigration eobemo they would at once be found fault with fori Hooding the labor market, to the detriment I of those who already were in the country. I Personally, he bad complete coDfidenoe I that as the years went by there would be I still more work in the oonntry than there I was to-day.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1671, 12 February 1906, Page 2
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