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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1926, Page 4

"There was every indication when I left England that the winter would hold less hardships than the winter of last year," stated Sir Herbert Matthews, an English agricultural expert, who arrived at Auckland by the Maunganui from Sydney. He added that generally speaking the industrial and social conditions of England were gradually improving. Taxes were still very heavy and the unemployment problem was acute.

There was more work offering' (it this time last year in the Manawatu district than at present. The cause (states «"J?hc Post's" Palmorston North correspondent) probably may be found to a largo degroo in the indifferent farming season; there is not the same call for farm ( Jabour, The electric power boards, too, are not employing as many men as, they were some months back. The engineering trade at present is quiet, but the motoring trade is brisker after » period of comparative passivity. Owing to the completion of much of the work at Mnugahuu some of the unskilled labour \vu displaced for a time, but during the past three months tins (io*iltioit y/' Ihfi litbpml luiukiH h»» muck üß^fuvc4>