"To-day I am losing somewhere about £1 per head on ' every pig 1 kill," said an employers' assessor during the hearing of the dispute m the bacon curing industry at the Conciliation Council' in Christchurch last week (reports the "Press"). "I am hoping that the tide will turn," ho continued, "but the trado in this district is leaving fcho factories and going into small concerns." If this state of affairs prevailed for another year or two, lie said, he would lie forced to go out of business. "But can't you raise the price of bacon?" asked the assessor on the other side of the table. '.'No, J can't," was. the reply. . .
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 20, 18 October 1918, Page 8
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111Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 20, 18 October 1918, Page 8
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