MR SEMPLE'S WARNING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 69, 14 December 1937, Page 6

MR SEMPLE'S WARNING

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Men Must Go Where the Work Is NO JOBS NEXT TO JAZZ HALLS

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CHRISTCHURCH, Last, Night The suggestion that it might be difi ficult to get men for the building of groynes to check the erosion in the upper reaches of the Waimakariri rivcr because of the distance of the job from the city was dealt with.by the Minister of Puhlio Works, the Hon. R* Semple, when he heard a deputation from the Waimakariri River Trust today. "If there is work to do, tne men will have to go there," the Minister said. "The men are not going back on the streets on sustenance.. We won't stand for that. They will have to get'on the job. The pioneers of this country went out and looked for their work. Some of these modern men refuse to go into a tent that someone else has built for them. If there is work to do in New Zealand the men must go where the work is. We won't find jobs for men at their doors, nor next to jazz halls." Mr. Semple's remarks found general and expressed support among the members of the deputation, who previously had said that the problem of getting men to the work liad been very difficult because the men did not like leavmg their homes and daily transport to and from the job woiild be obviously jmpracticable.