MALE LABOUR SHORTAGE.
MORE WOMEN WANTED. FOOD PRICES IN BRITAIN. (Received January 17, 10.30 p.m.) London, January IT. The Board of Trade's Labour Gazette says that the growing shortage in male labour can only be met by a. much larger influx of women. Food prices this inonln have increased by 1.") per cent, as compared with July, IJM-1. The percentage of unemployment is .(!, the lowest on record. The number of labour disputes is the lowest for nine years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16129, 18 January 1916, Page 6
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