Bell's Match Factory Opened.
♦ (Per Press Association). Wellington, July 13. The Premier opened the Bell match factory at Newton to day, and in response to hi 3 health, said he was greatly impressed with the industry, which would find employment for a large number of girls. He regarded the ventilation of the building as perfect and the danger to the operatives and neighborhood as mfinitisioal. So far as the Governmeut could do during the session, when tariff proposals came before the House, he would ease the revenue duties on raw materials required for the prosecution of the colonial iudustries. Mr Bell, managing director, stated that at present his firm employed 60 people in Wellington and in a short time would find work for 120.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 144, 16 July 1895, Page 2
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