"From what I can see in Gisborne, as soon as a man puts in machinery the people think he is doing a man out of employment, and they will not patronise him,” was the remark of a bankrupt bootmaker at his meeting of creditors (says an exchange). Ho mi ntioned that he had : nstal'ed special plant, hut after that trade dwindled away. He also cited a well-known local firm which had installed piul>irate machinery, which had later to be almost given away on account of tb.era being no use for it.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 130, 1 March 1928, Page 11
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91Untitled Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 130, 1 March 1928, Page 11
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