FACTORIES IN NEW ZEALAND
Correspondents who do not comply with our rules set out In the last column of our Leader Page will excuse us from noticing their letters. Bill B.—Suggest you communicate with the club’s secretary. Another Pioneer.—lnsufficiently addressed.
to the editor or the press Sir, —-The Department of Labour reports for the year ending March 31, 1939, there were 17,842 factories in New Zealand compared with 17,559 in 1938. An increase of 283 sounds good for New Zealand. The number of factory workers in 1939 was 123,728, compared with 123,551, an increase of only 177. There is something wrong: 283 new factories and an increase of only 177 workers. In 1938 the workers averaged a little more than seven a factory, yet in 1939, an increase of 283 factories, the workers average fewer than seven a factory. It does not look like building a nation, to me, and buying New Zealand goods.—Yours, etc., PLEASE EXPLAIN, August 31. 1939.' 1
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22804, 1 September 1939, Page 15
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