LABOR REPORT.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1916, Page 6

LABOR REPORT.

1 f FOR NEW PLYMOUTH Tlie Inspector of Factories for Neiv Plymouth reports as follows: Trade conditions fo? the month have, considering the period of the year, been very satisfactory. The 'building trades generally have been good. Some large i jobs are in course of completion, while ) a number of others, the cost of which > will total from £15,00.0 to £20.000, will . b.' commenced at an early date. The ■ wood-working trades are busy. Engiii- • eering has been good for the pe"iod and 1 the leather trades report satisfactory ■ business. Tailoring, as is usual at this > time of the year, is quiet. 11l the rci tail trades, business has been steady. • The dairying industry, of course, is quiet > at present. In a return submitted late- • lv. it is i.bown that for the twelve months ended June 30. 152,7-1:' boxes of f butter and 110,2-10 cases of cheese were ! received at the Moturoa Freezing Works. It has been estimated that the total ' quantity of the above is £1.232,070 . (b«tter'£s34,s97. and cheese .£007,470). ' Compared with last year's figures, but- » ter lias decreased by/l3.0(13 boxes, and ' cheese lias increased by 22,532 crates. An L increased production was shown, liov- ' ever, the decrease in butter being caus- ' ed by a number of better factories be- ' ing converted into cheese factories at ; the beginning of the season. '1 lie quantity in storage on June 30, 1010, was 400 boxes of/butter and 11,21)2 crates of cheese, asainst 1452 boxes of butter and T3'3 crates of cheese for the period ending June, 1915. The prospects for next season's output are very hopeful. It is 1 anticipated, though, that the supply of labor will not be equal to the demand.