THE SAWMILLING INDUSTRY
Sir, —I wish to say a few words on the sawmilling industry, in which, I think, the Government ought to do something. lam only a woman, but I know how they live. There are eighteen to twenty families in our mill. Each have their little, home’s garden, and bring up their family and educate them. We have oiir Sunday school and hall ( What will they do if the mills are closed? Also a fine lot of young men have been put off. . Some are still in their. huts—cannot get work. What is to become of our football teams? Football is about the only pleasure we have in the country. One can see the changes in Raetihi already. Oh, the pity', of it. It’s a home within a home.—l am, ' tC ” A MOTHER. Makaranui, Ohakune.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 42, 13 November 1926, Page 10
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137THE SAWMILLING INDUSTRY Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 42, 13 November 1926, Page 10
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