DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8406, 22 April 1907, Page 3

DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR.

The Journal of the Department of Labour for April contains the following in reference to Timii and Masterton : TJNUL Building Trades: Brisk. All carpenters fully employed during the month repairing and erecting dwell-ling-houses. Retail trade (general): Fair business has been doing in all branches during the month. Miscellaneous: Blacksmiths, saddlers, and bootmakers have been fairly busy during the month, but work has not sufficiently increased to put on extra hands. Unskilled labour: All local men have been fully employed during the month at roadwork, scrub-cutting, and grass-seed sowing. A few swaggers were seen on the road during the month. All of them got employment in this district. MASTERTON. Business generally is good, the district making rapid progress. Quite a number of brick and wooden structures are in course of erection. Building trades: Carpenters and joinersJiavc been kept fully employed during the month. Bricklayers: Time has been lost owing to the shortage of cement. Plasterers: All fully employed. Tailoring: Trade continues brisk, but little overtime has been worked. Brickmaking: This industry continues to improve. Coachbuilding: Business generally good; local hands fully employed. Engineering: Good and steady business being done. Saddle and harness making: Fair. Dressmaking: About season's usual trade. Retail trade (general): Business shows an increase. ' Unskilled labour: A number of men out of employment, but conditions should improve when works in contemplation are commenced. During the period under review ten men have been sent to the North Island Main Trunk Railway works.