EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES.
Cloth costing £2 . made into a suit, selling wholesale at £5, means that the value added in, process of manufacture is £3, and .in. New. Zealand 43s 3d of that £3 goes in wages to workers.. Tho amount of wages. paid for each. •£! of added value in factories’ in New Zealand, according to official returns for the year 1925-26, is as follows 1 :— Wages paid for every £1 added value ■• ; 's. :d.Clothing and Waterproofing 14U5 Furniture . 7 . ....... 14. 3 Boot® and. Shoes ~........ , 14 '1 Woodwa.re and Turnery ... 13 10 Electricity 13 9 Woollen Fabric ...... i... 13 1 Timber, Sashes, Doors, etc. 11 1 Frozen Meat, etc ...... 10 9 Soft Drinks 9 10 BEER, STOUT, Etc. .6 10 Support and. increase the: useful industries that employ many workers and produce real wealth.*
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 October 1928, Page 5
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