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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2160, 8 April 1908, Page 2

Giving evidence in the Arbitration Court last week, the general manager of Messrs Kempthorne, Professer and Co. said that the amount of capital the company has invested in manure works, .plant and stock throughout the colony was £70,215. The number of men employed as manure-workers in Ota go and Southland district was 210, and the wages paid them per annum £15,425. For the colony the number would probably bo from 1400 to 1500, and the wages paid between £60,000 and £70,000 per annum. Messrs Bennison Brothers, of-Now-lands, Ashburton (says the “Lyttelton Times”) ploughed with their steam plant during seven months of last year 2600 acres of land. My J. 'Withell, of Hinds, is at present ha’-ing a block of 600 acres ploughed by steam, and despite the hardness of the soil, the ploughs are majr'ng excellent work.

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