Labour Departments Report.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 March 1914, Page 3

Labour Departments Report.

KU -NEWS J'liUJl OTAKI

A careful search through the Labour Department's report' for March shows that the Kip Van Winkle slumber of the Otaki man has not yet been disturbed ; there is no report as to the labour and trades condition in llorowhenua appearing in the journal. \et the fact that Otaki awakened to tlie necessity for rural telephones gives hope that it will some day awake in this case also, though not until Levin has taken the matter into its own hands. The report on trades and labour conditions in the Palmerston .North district is given below: — Work has been fairlv satisfactory during the oast month. The weather has been such as to afford every facility for outside work to be carried on. and iliose in the building trades have been fairly busy. Trade generally has also been very satisfactory, the drapers perhaps being the busiest on account of holding cheap sales. Building trades.- Bricklaying and carpentry and joinery good. Plastering and painting fairly busy. Plumbing and gasfitling busy. Stonemasonry fair. Woodworking trades. Boxmaking busy. Cabmetmaking and upholstering very good. Coopering fair. Sash and door factories, sawmilling and woodturning, etc., normal. Engineering trades. Agricultural implement making, boilermaking, brass and copper smithing, electrical engineering," fitting and turning iron and brass moulding, rangemaking, very slack._ Leather trades. Bootnuiking (factories and repair shops) good. Saddlery and harnessmaking fair. Clothing trades. Dressmaking and millinery very _good ; dressmakers wanted. Tailoring (order) busy.

Retail trades.--Clot h nig, boots, drapery and i\.voceni s. <>ood. Printing trades. !>ookbindin<: and printing busy: some factories working overtime.

Mieat-freezing, etc.---Tanning, currying', fellmongery, and slaughtering, freezing' and preserving" all hands fully employed. Coaclibuilding ira(!es. — ]51 acksmithing and coach, carriage and tram-ear building good. Cycle and motor trades good. Agricultural operations Farming, dairying, etc., satisfactory. Miscellaneous. 1/1 ax mil lingfa irly bus3 r . Unskilled labour. There have been a few more callers for work during tile past month, but as the applicants did not call a second time it is to he presumed they found work in the district or went further afield in search of same.