“The mining industry is up against it in every way today,” said Mr G. Thompson at the annual meeting at Dunedin of the Nevis Sluicing Claims Ltd. “The Government will not assist it, the Mines Department is not very sympathetic, while rising wages have proved a problem.” In four years wages had shown an increase of 25 per cent, while it was almost an impossibility to obtain experienced men. “Four years ago one could obtain very good men at 14s a day,” said Mr Thompson, “but now all one can obtain is some mighty useless men at 18s a day.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1938, Page 8
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