FRENCH PROSPERITY
SHORTAGE OF LABOUR
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
i,Received this day at S a.m.)
LONDON, November 29
France since autumn of 1921 has enjoyed amon/g European nations a signal and perhaps even unique economic good fortune, reports Air J. R.. Cahill, British Commercial Counsellor at Paris. Save for a slight check (for a few moments in 1927, France has experienced a period of most pronounced commercial and industrial prosperity. The output has been limited only by the shortage of labour, to meet wliicli a million and a-lialf foreign workers have been imported. A Iresii outburst of prosperity*, has been witnessed during the present year. The total receiving unemployment relief ii) September was under eight hundred. The recovery of Alsace Lorraine has brought immense wealth, while this has been aided by German reparations and payments in kind. Franco lias vastly improved railway and road communications, ports, canal equipment, hydraulic power stations and long-distance cables, as well as having restored the devastated areas.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1928, Page 5
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