OUR INDUSTRIES
DECLINE OF LABOR-GIVING OCCUPATIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Wellington, last night. The Committee of the Industrial Association, on the motion of the Crown, has set fip a sub-committee to enquiro into the reason why somo of the Now Zealand manufactures are apparently going back, notably boots and agricultural implements, and, if possible, to suggest a remedy. The Crown gave some interesting figures showing that the boot trade employed less men than formerly, and the importations bad increased. There are 520 less men now engaged in making implements than in 1899. The official Year Book showed 140,000 acres less in grain crops, etc., than in 1898, and about 1,200,000 more in grass. The question was whether the people were going out of occupations employing labor, and going into grazing, which employed the least labor.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 261, 13 November 1901, Page 2
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134OUR INDUSTRIES Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 261, 13 November 1901, Page 2
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