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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 225, 28 August 1914, Page 3

A meeting of the Hangitikei Cooperative Timber Company was held on Tuesday to consider conditions arising out of the war. A general shortage of orders was reported. It was decided to work four days a week in all the mills under the company's jurisdiction in order as fur as possible, to keep all millworkers going. Tho company controls some liO mills along the Main Trunk line and elsewhere, and had two alternatives -to work short time or discharge a third of its men. If the latter course had been decided on over 500 men would have been thrown out of employment. A number of smaller mills, independent of the company, have shut down altogether.