Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1886. CAUSE AND EFFECT.
A Leeds correspondent states- that, Meferii , Marsha jjx and, Co., of t^e Holb^; Milla, /Leeds, who. are amongst the .largest' flax utaauf aetui-ers m the tJnited Kahgdoui, have'cfiyen uotic'e of ifflvtpnngfoj? tKeir vi^illa at the «na 6t '< 'tb¥ ; preSeiitf yeir. Porbierly theses fipillaf|»Mnßomployinettt >«t«i;betweeri thiPfte <ojifqur tbojasahd hands,, but lome time ago 'the iramber-was je^ educed, to about one-half* .Tk&annotmci %erit ha^eiciiej greit iMeHst m Leeds, iaiid has: drawn.: public 'attention to this fact :of the { gradual dic4y' of thg flax m ,dustry { £n tjhetpwja, 4J3 year* ago tbe.jiax trade of fjeedi found .employment" for. nearly 2Q,0()6 person*. mills J in ttieWrici mill after an-other-has- cio*ed-it#doorsTiaTid^li#4miid|s haViftiadrto M*k/*mployment elsewhere." ctoiiflf 'bt ittmtS Marshall's ■■ only four or five mills, employing about' 15p0a»rBpn8 ri wia b| left. p?hj dcci-; dencefoi tnefin|luitry|iß atfribut3| to thY JperatiDnf orUloatile I tariffs Ends to tble longer hours of working on the Continent. , During the paripd mentioned the number of'flax'jMilw in ' Lille (France) hasiavOreaied -m about the same proportion as r they c nkWdiskpp^r«d'fi'om Lefeds. ]
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1672, 31 March 1886, Page 2
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187The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1886. CAUSE AND EFFECT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1672, 31 March 1886, Page 2
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