BOX COMPANY'S APPEAL
INDUSTRY LOSES 1100 MEN (0.C.) GISBORNE, Thursday This industry has been bled more than any other in New Zealand, stated Mr. G. I. Parker when supporting appeals for eight employees of the Gisborne Box Company at a sitting of the Gisborne Manpower Committee. He said that 800 men had been drawn off to form three forestry units for service overseas, and 300 men had been lost through ordinary enlistments. Mr. Parker added that the industry supplied 60 per cent of the timber used in the Gisborne district. Besides supplying timber for civil commodities the company had to supply timber for air raid shelters. The manager, Mr. W. H. Taylor, said that the company had been in operation since May, 1932, and it was calculated that it had manufactured 1,000,000 butter boxes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24251, 17 April 1942, Page 4
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134BOX COMPANY'S APPEAL New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24251, 17 April 1942, Page 4
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