Depression in the Coal Trade.
(Per Press Association)
GREY3IOUTH, This "day.
In future the Blackball Coal Company intend to only work one shift in place of two- In consequence of'this decision all employees were given notice, but when the shift is working there will still be seventy dispensed -with. Already a good deal of distress exists at Blackball and the Government are being asked to commence the Ngahere railway with a view to absorbing some of the surplus labour and alleviating distress.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7913, 20 September 1904, Page 5
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82Depression in the Coal Trade. Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7913, 20 September 1904, Page 5
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