MATERIAL FOR BUILDING.
SHORTAGE IN WANUANUI. [BY TEIEGBAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WANGANUI, Friday The local building trade continues to be very seriously affected by the shortage of cement. In fact a master builder asserts that there was hardly enough cement in Wanganui to keep three or four plasterers going. He and other builders had been compelled to put off men, and others would have to be put off within a few days unless fresh supplies of cement were avadable. Timber stocks are also very low. The great bulk of the timber required for local use comes from the Main Trunk, and as this source of supply is cut off as a result of railway operations being ternpotarily suspended, the building trade is naturally feeling the effects. The acute shortage of cement, which however is not attributable to the strike, coupled with the shortage of timber, is having a most detrimental effect upon the whole of the building industry in Wanganui."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17459, 1 May 1920, Page 6
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