PROSPERITY BOOM IN SOUTH WALES
RICH HARVEST BY THE SHIPPING (JWNKIMS. London, November 27. South AVnles is enjoying unexampled prosperity. Tramp ships lire chafing IKI--, per ton freight on real shipped from Wales to Rouen. Before the war the !',!> for real was :>s. Coal for V.en:co (."•pviniislv Bs.) 'fi charged 100s. per ton. Oip captain made .ffl.'i.OllO" last year as liis-part share in a steamer. Ihe con 1owuer- are ?ellin}; export coal at 70s. per ton. Steel smelters are aiming .£IG per jveeV \ miner's family, whero the father and three sons work in tho pits, is receiving .£27 10s. per week—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 58, 2 December 1919, Page 7
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