WORK FOR MIGRANTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 650, 30 April 1929, Page 10

WORK FOR MIGRANTS

TRANSPORT BOARD POLICY STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN The Transport Board's policy with regard to the employment of immigrants with the undertaking was defined in no uncertain terms by the chairman, Mr. J. A. C. Allum, at a meeting of Mount Roskill ratepayers last evening. The matter arose when a questioner asked whether it was true that the board had given preference of employment to people from Great Britain. “There is only one thing which guides the board,” stated Mr. AUum, “and that is, 'Which man is best fitted for a vacancy which may occurr “The board has never given preference to immigrants. The only occasion on which the management was approached to assist people from oterseas was some time ago, when an appeal was made on behalf of exnaval men who had found themselves unemployed in this country. “I have told the manager, Mr. A. E. Ford, that he is to employ men solely on his own judgment. “I am writing letters every mail to people in England and Canada, acquainting them of the unemployment situation in New Zealand, and telling them not to come here. “Whatever may be said outside th« service, I can say definitely that t have never had a complaint from the men in the employ of the Transpoit Board.”