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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 7 October 1922, Page 10

When Arkwright's invention threw the weavers out of work there were riots, and many heads were broken^ before the workmen realised that nothing can stop the spread of machines! that save money. Clerks g&tt book-! keepers are beginning to finff themselves In the same position as the j weavers of Arkwright's day, but so far there has been no indication of a desire to smash things. An instance of I the new tendency in a branch of work I which a few years ago would have been j pronounced impossible to mechanicalise cropped up at the meeting of the Auckj land Harbour Board a few days ago when a vacancy among the ledgerkeepers caused by the resignation of a 1 man drawing over £300 a year was ■ filled by buying a machine for less than j £400 and appointing an operator at n ' weekly salary of 30s. . \ Women are New Zealand's greatest asset. Next in order of merit comes. .. "No-Rubbing" Laundry Heln, the famI ous abolisher of washhouse slavery W. Gilbert, agent for "No-Rubbing "— Advt.