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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 October 1920, Page 5

The encroachment of Chinese in the fruit trade in Auckland was referred to at the Arbitration Court as a reason why conditions of employment should not be made to bear too heavily on the employers in the fruit trade. It was suggested by the union representative that the Chinese employers could be cited as parties to the award. The employers’ representative said that probably little would be gained by citing them. Mr, Justice Stringer remarked that he understood the Chinese who i were engaged carrying on the fruit business were always represented as partners \yhen any question regarding their status as workers was asked.

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Reference to the difficulty of obtaining domestic help on farms was made at the meeting of the SpringsEllesmere Electric Power Board on Mondajr by the chairman, and in replying to a question as to the extent to which electriciy would lighten the work of women on farms, Mr. J. R. Templin, the Board’s consulting engineer. ,stated tiiat while visiting, the United States recently he had been struck by the enormous demand that existed for electric washing machines. They were being sold almost as fast as postage stamps werfe in New Zealand. He had attended an elect-real exhibition in Ohio which was ’really a show of washing machines, there being about 20 different makes. One electrical firm he had come into touch with had orders for 400.000 quarterhorse power motors for washing machines.

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