“Half the offices in Auckland are empty just now,” said Mr. B. Spencer, giving evidence on behalf of the employers when the award of the Auckland City Cleaners, Caretakers, and Liftmen’s Industrial Union of YVorkhrs was under review in the Arbitration Court at Auckland (reports an exchange). "You have only to walk along Customs Street and Anzac Avenue and look at the ‘To Jet’ notices on the windows of buildings to see this.” Mr. Spencer mentioned a new building in Anzac Avenue where only one and a half iloors were let, and he estimated the owners were losing £lOOO a. week. The position was that owners of buildings were now obliged to rent their offices at half what they were charging two years ago.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 189, 12 May 1928, Page 26
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