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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2681, 29 January 1916, Page 3

The uhortago of labour occasioned by the departure to the war front of bo many of, our young men growis more and! more pronounced (says nu ' exchange), and many factories find themselves soriousl.v embarrassed bv an inability to find workers to keep their machinery goinc;. This state of affairs prevails throughout the Dominion, but is more marked in the smaller centres. The men who still remain recoeniso tlieir worth, and \rtien offered a change of venue demand terms such a« would make their employment unprofitable. One faetory in Oamaru that has run successfully for 35 years without a stop is bein<: closed down for lack'of workers. The hands, save one, had all been locally trained, and when war broke out they were Anions; the first to offer their services to the country. This concern had an annual'production valued at about £0000 and a pay-sheet running [ up to £1000 a jear in wages.