GREAT DEPRESSION.
TASMANIA!? TIMBER TRADE.
OVER TWO HUNDRED MEN DISCHARGED.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received July 2, 11,10 a.m. HOBART, July 2. There is great depression in the Tasmanian timber trade. Over two hundred men have been discharged from i > uthern mill and another two hundred and fifty are expected to be thrown idle shortly.
The slackness is said to be due to the absence of a duty on pine log coming from Russia and Japan, and cut up in Sydney and Melbourne. This timber was supplementing Tasmanian hardwood.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9533, 3 July 1909, Page 5
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91GREAT DEPRESSION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9533, 3 July 1909, Page 5
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