“Money talks,” and the monetary figures relating to the losses involved by the slump, in the West Coast timber industry are eloquent (says an exchange). For instance, no less than £2OOO-pe;r week in wages was lost by the timber workers last year owing to the- mills closing down when the, stream of orders dried up. The West Coast sawmille.rs paid pjut approximately £96,000 less last year, compared with the previous years. No great power of imagination is needed to realise the serious result of the timber slump upon the West Coast as a whole;.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5228, 18 January 1928, Page 4
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