WESTLAND TIMBER MILLS CLOSING.
All the sawmills in Westlah'l are closing down for a fortnight tearlier than uoual this season, £ays the Westport "Times," btoing to the slackness of orders for tie local timber, There is ht) &ate 'given for :the re-opening of the faills, but in ■any case they wil! !I n'6t be 'opening till fully a 'week after v Ntw Kear, and then it will be dtiubtful if many will rc-op6n. 'This that fully thirty-five mills Vi'll be closed down f f6r tiearly three 'weeks. As they employ "on an iWerage sixteen mtJn 'each, whbse ' wages range from '9s l a 'day for slabbers to 14s for or an aVeVage all round of ils ! aday, thls'mfcans a loss of earnirigTjtfwer a week, or,
oughly, a total loss of wages earned during the three weeks during which the mills will be closed down of over £6,000.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3069, 14 December 1908, Page 4
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147WESTLAND TIMBER MILLS CLOSING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3069, 14 December 1908, Page 4
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