The coal trade is in a bad way at present according to a wholesale merchant to-day, and the prospects of an early improvement are not bright. Even many of the co-opevatiVe mines are only struggling along. There is something of a boom ill the timbertrade at present, owing in part, to the advent of the building subsidy, but there is every probability that once the subsidy is withdrawn, there will be a corresponding slump in the .trade. There are sufficient orders to keep the men going up to Christmas week.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1934, Page 13
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