PROGRESS MADE
Coachbuilding Industry BIG PRODUCTION GAIN Progress of the coachbuilding and motor engineering industry is referred to by the New Zealand Coach and Motor Body Builders’ Industrial Association of Employers in its annual report. The association quotes the following increases between 1936-37 and 1037-38: The number of persons engaged iif the industry is 9900, an increase of 1724. The salaries and wages paid, £2,120,2SO, show an increase of £519.550. The value of output last year amounted to £5,C55,433, an increase of £1,254,197. “This is the greatest value increase in factory production of any industry iu New Zealand,” the association says. "The cost of materials used shows an increase of £257,072, and the land and buildings, plant and machinery has increased by £360.948.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 149, 20 March 1939, Page 8
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123PROGRESS MADE Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 149, 20 March 1939, Page 8
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