MEN FROM AUSTRALIA

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20743, 1 March 1939, Page 8

MEN FROM AUSTRALIA

FURTHER BATCHES ARRIVE APART FROM GOVERNMENT SCHEME (By Telegraph.—Press Association! AUCKLAND Wednesday Seeking employment in New Zealand batches of carpenters and allied tradesmen have been arriving in Auckland in practically every ship from Australia over the past few weeks, apart altogether from the Government’s move to import skilled tradesmen through enlistments made to Mr J. Hodgens, M.P., who is now in Australia. Six more carpenters arrived on the Wanpanella to-day along with three master builders who are investigating the possibility of transferring their businesses to New Zealand. One said be co-uld easily bring 50 men over. “Things have gone dead in Sydney,” he said adding that he knew of a plasterer who employed 40 men who now had no work. He hoped to rable to Sydney within a few days asking for carpenters and other tradesmen to join him here. He said that before leaving Sydney he talked with Mr Hodgens and he felt sure that under the Government's scheme only the best tradesmen would bo brought over. “Mr Hodgens is a man who knows his job,” he said, adding that there need be no fear that New Zealand would be flooded with men of an inferior type.