WORK FOR SINGLE MEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 38, 15 February 1939, Page 6

WORK FOR SINGLE MEN

VACANCIES IN CAMPS LAND DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES (Own Correspondent) PATEA, Feb. 14. At to-day’s meeting o£ the Patea County Council it was reported by the Department of Labour that there arc vacancies • for more than 700 single men in land development camps at Te Kuiti and Auckland and at the State forestry camp at Rotorua. It was desired that all district officers bring these works to the notice of the fit and single men on I heir registers, including all single men engaged with local employing authorities under Scheme 13, ami offer them full-time'employment on these works. The work should also be offered to any married men who were separated from their wives and who had no family responsibilities necessitating their remaining in towns. Every such man who can possibly be released (within reason) .was to be withdrawn from Scheme 13 work under local employing authorities and sent forward to land development or forestry work. The fares of the men to the location of the works will be paid by the department. If the men to whom the work is offered decline to accept without good and sufficient reasons, they would be treated as voluntarily unemployed and a report forwarded to the department. The council decided to ask for the men to be retained by the county until the completion of existing works, especially Mangawhio. The engineer (Mr. J. N. Anderson) reported that progress with the Mangawhio drain was slow, as the work was very difficult and dangerous.