THE LABOR MARKET.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2080, 4 January 1908, Page 2

THE LABOR MARKET.

CITY LIFE PREFERRED,

Special to Times. WELLINGTON, Jan. 3

It would be interesting if some record were obtained of the doings, the successes and the lailures ol tin** immigrants >vho arrive in the colony. I.n Conversation with a "Post” reporter to-day, an officer of the Labor Department stated that he experienced nreat dillicultv in inducing new arrivals to take up work in the couutrv. ’l'lie complaint is not a new one’, nor is it peculiar to Englishmen. I’lie vonng New Zealander has similar desires. He disli'Kos country blc, and sighs lor the city, with its attractions. its gaietv. and its laiictj. To-day tlm following telegram was received' in the Employment Bureau of the Department from a town somewhere outside of Stratford: "Forward 30 'mod pick and shovel men at,once wages Os per day. But the Department cannot comply with the request. in the first place sufficient capable men are not ottering, -and m tlm second place they do not seem to like going into the country. It is apparently the same with farm laborers. Men wlio have been used to farm work in England seem to have a dislike to poiiutrv 1 1 1 <*■ sis soon us they uiiixo in New Zealand. 01 course. it is not ««> ’ll, |,|l cases, but exceptions only prove the rule. According to those who n-r best able to. judge enquiries go to show that employment at good wages is going a-begging in the country. ()b----viouslv cases of hardship do ocelli ill the cites, but those who are able and willing to work can. it is contended, easily earn a verv decent livelihood for themselves and their families if thev oldv go tin' right- way about things anil exhibit a genuine desire to better themselves and their conditions.