£'100)000 WAGE BILL. NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRY. A niw conception of the size of commercial afforestation in Kew Zealand is given by -.the following statement by N.Z. Perpetual Forests, Limited" Although only planting since 1925, the company has already paid out to workers over £400,000 in wages These figures, of course, do not include wages for -he clerical and executive side of the business. "In addition to this tremendous sum paid out in wages over £200,000 has been spent in the purchase of commodities, food, implements, tools, etc., the production of which haa created, employment, in. otner spheres."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20924, 14 July 1931, Page 5
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