Mr. Miles, M.L.C., Western Australia, who tfas been on a visit to Darwtn (Northern Territory), states in an Australian paper that money is flowing like water in that locality. Messrs. Vestey Bros, are paying extraordinarily high ralres of wages to butchers and slauglitermen. Some of the men are getting from M 0 to .£4O a fortnight, including overtime. Boys are earning .£l6 to .£lB a month. Thero are, lie suys, 20 motor-cars plying for hire at Darwin, tho earnings of euch averaging over .CSO a week, which Cjakcs tho wet of motor 'biro for the town about ,Cl pur Tiead ol' tho population per week.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 26, 25 October 1917, Page 4
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