THE BRUCE WOOLLEN MILLS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19309, 22 October 1924, Page 10

THE BRUCE WOOLLEN MILLS.

TO TJIE F.DITOK. g IR _\Vo in Milton havo a woollen mill; we have nl.se Unemployed; and the man m the street- says it. is a crying shame that the mill should send its hands to do outsido work. Fov instance, abcut 12 months .•■«<> the mill carpenters were repairing the Church of England parsonage, and now they ore building a stoie at the north ondot the town foi- Mr Moore, who is a director, although the carpenters of the town have to live 'i he mill also built a dwelling for Mr Petrie, tho secretary, and lan summer tho surplus mill hands were diß'.n.K a trench to toy pipes to connect v.ith the n_ain water pipes for the swimming baths. ADOut three weeks ago the Woollen Company was stocktaking :ind the mill was closed, taut some of tho- men were collecting sweepings and ehippings off th o paths and channels, and some of them are \\oikin;r a! the balhsat present concreting and cementing the bottom, etc. Why I am writing 15 because so many unemployed :re looking for something to do to earn a cru&t—some with a familv. The old saying, "Everyone to his HjvJ.% ' doc* not hold with the Woollen Company, as its employees include sawmillers, builders, scavengers and what not —I cm." etc., Live and Let Live. [We have mado inquiries concerning this complaint, We understand that the Bruce Woollen Manufacturing Company regards its stiff of carpenters as particularly capable, and. bein r desirous cf retaining the services of all the members of it, is pleased to allow them to accept employment elsewhere when work at the mills is slack. It is represented to us, also, that employees of the Woolien Manufacturing Company wore the only tradesmen in Milton qualified to perform the w irk—largely an engineering undertaking--at the Domain. —Ed. O.D.T.j