TAIHAPE SAWMILLS.
MILLS CLOSED
ACUTE DEPRESSION.
[Press Association.]
WELLINGTON
Nov. S
A Taihape message states that the situation in the siwmilling industry is becoming acute. Some mills have closed down altogether, and others are working only five days per week. Millers are receiving scarcely any orders, and merchants are overstocked. This is due partly to the slackness of trade, but largely- to the importation of Oregon pine.
On Monday a third of the hands will be discharged from Gammons mill, at Ohakune. A mass meeting of the workers was held at Taihape on Saturday, the employers attending by invitation. The millers are reported to have satisfied the. workers of the falseness of the allegations that orders are being withheld to accentuate the depression, so as to get a heavier duty on Oregon pine. A joint committee of millers and workers is to go into the whole question.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2343, 9 November 1908, Page 5
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