TIMBER INDUSTRY.
'PRACTICALLY AT STANDSTILL.'
SKELETON" STAFFS WORKING,
"The industry is practically at a standstill. It is as low as it can possibly get without actually closing down," said Mr. E. J. Phelan, secretary of the Timber Workers' Union this morning in referring to the parlous state of the timber industry in the Auckland province at the present time. He further pointed out that the few firms that were operating in the city were working with skeleton staffs, and it was safe to say that in the Auckland industrial district, which embraces territory from Manunui in the south to the North Cape, there were from 700 to 800 men out of work. Places that were still operating were working short time. Mr. Phelan said that further restrictions were necessary on imported timber to save the industry. Timber should be imported ( in the rough, so that its preparation for the market would provide work for New Zealand labour.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 165, 14 July 1928, Page 21
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