MEN FROM AUSTRALIA
WELCOMED BY MINISTER. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Minister for Housing (the Hon 11. T. Armstrong) met 47 tradesmen from Australia on their arrival by the Awatea this morning. Addressing them, he said that of those already in New Zealand. 98 or 99 per cent were employed, and if those who had just arrived wanted to work tomorrow they could do so. There had been complaints by one or two men who declared, he said, that they had been promised ten hours a week overtime. That promise had not been made, as the object of the Government was to do away with overtime as soon as possible. He repeated the assurance made on Saturday that accommodation would be temporarily provided where there was a difficulty in that respect. Thanking the Minister for his welcome, one of the men said they were glad to have come to a country where the Government was endeavouring to do something for the workers and had provided a 40 hour week. They had left a country where actual starvation existed, and where the Government was opposing a4O hour week. He believed they were all ready to become citizens of New Zealand and to enjoy its social benefits for the rest of their lives.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1939, Page 6
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216MEN FROM AUSTRALIA Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1939, Page 6
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