“Half the offices in Auckland are empty just now,” said Mr. B. Spencep, giving epidenc© oh behalf of employers when the award of the Auckland City Cleaners, Caretakers, andj Liftmen’s Industrial Union of Workers was under review in the Arbitration Court at Auckland. “You have only to walk along Customs Street and Anzac avenue and look at the ‘To let” notices on the windows of buildings to see tills.” Mr. .Spencer mentioned a new building in Anzac avenue, where- only one and a- half floors were let, and he estimated the: owners were losing £IOO 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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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 May 1928, Page 9
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