THE TIMBER INDUSTRY.
[BY TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, Thursday. In the course of a conversation regarding the timber industry in Southland, the secretary to the Southland Sawmill Employees' Union, who has just completed a tour of the Seaward Bush and Catlnis forests, states that numbers of axemen and sawmill hands were leaving the Southland forests for the Danncvirke district, attracted no doubt by higher wages and more constant employment. Within a recent period 150 men had departed from the Southland district, and their places were being filled by outsiders.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12775, 27 January 1905, Page 6
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88THE TIMBER INDUSTRY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12775, 27 January 1905, Page 6
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