HIGH PRICE OF NICKEL.
CONTRIBUTING CAUSES.
■LONDON. July 24
The chairman of the Mond Nickel Com pany, Ltd., Mr. R. L. Mond, addressing the shareholder?, described tho extraordinary rise ft» 'he caste of production since i.eforo the war. The wages of mechanics hart increased by 187 percent., and those of pwcaMmftti by 213 per cent. The cost >f sulphuric acid had increased 170 per cent., tb»l, of timber 400 per cent., of «teel 180 per cent., and the price of coal Iwd more than doubled.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17236, 12 August 1919, Page 8
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85HIGH PRICE OF NICKEL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17236, 12 August 1919, Page 8
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