ELECTRIC POWER BOARD
« MEETING AT CARTERTON. TODAY’S BUSINESS. (“Times-Age” Special.) The monthlv meeting of the Wairarapa Electric Power Board was held at Carterton today. There were present Messrs A. Campbell Pearce (chairman). H. P. Hugo, M. B. Tait, W. A. Tate, C. R. Holmes, F. C. Daniell, J. W. Colquhoun, and S. Dalgleish. Accounts amounting to £18,561 were passed for payment. SCARCITY OF WORKMEN. “The house wiring department with a limited staff has been kept exceptionally busv and the volume of installation work offering shows no sign of reducing,” said Mr G. Brown (secretarymanager). “It is practically impossible to obtain men as they are being paid high waves in Wellington, and there is also an absorption of available workers in connection with the centenary celebrations.” In reply to Mr Tate, Mr Brown said that there had not been a scarcity of electrical workers for. at least, the last three years, and if the building boom continued there would be little likelihood of one,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1939, Page 9
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163ELECTRIC POWER BOARD Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1939, Page 9
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