SHORTENING HANDS

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14830, 22 November 1913, Page 12

SHORTENING HANDS

HOW BUSINESS IX WELLINGTON IS AFFECTED. IFR2SS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, November 21. One effect of the strike has been the reduction of employees in businesses and callings not directly concerned with the strike. This has been fairly general, and but few businesses, especially retail businesses, have escaped. in some cases employees are asked to take a week's holiday, followed by a week's work, so as to distribute what employment there is all round. It is not that as yet the citizens as a whole aro short of money, but those who are in constant employment, being unable to forecast the future, are Tiusoanding their resources, and besides there has been a heavy expenditure in the aggregate on food and other supplies in an-

ticipation of the shortage some commodities has already o*^ ll experienced. . In the case of other employees,_they have been discharged eiraer for »aw of material or want of work. Messrs R. Hannah and Co. - s uoot factory in Wellington, one of the largest of us kind in New Zealand will close down to-morrow, as the stock of leather is just about exhausted. More TSan half tho employees have- been idle forjsomo days, and the remainder of tho operators, will bo paid off Lo-morrow. Iho firm has a large supply of southern leather stuck up at Wanganui owing to the strike.