CARPENTERS FROM LONDON
Presa Aisociation.)
Work on . State Housing Schemes
(By . Telegraph— ■
AUCKLAND, This Day. Forty carpenters, between the agee of 18 and 36, arrived by the Rangitikl to work on State housing schemes. The men responded to an advertisement in the News-Chronicle, London, giving m Post Office box number, which proved to he that of the agent of the Fletche* Cohstruction Company in. London. There were -over 800 applications, but when it was aseertained that the men had to pay their own fares a laTge number dropped out, The men engaged were guaranteed three years' continuous work, subject to competency, at 2/6 i por hour. They were informed that 150 men were. required for Neir Zealand. The present pay for carpen* ters is 1/9 1 in London and 1/6 in th# provinces. The majority are leaving Auckland this afternoon and evening to work at Wellington. About six are r6maining in Auckland. 1
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19371021.2.31
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 24, 21 October 1937, Page 4
Word Count
153CARPENTERS FROM LONDON Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 24, 21 October 1937, Page 4
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in