FORTY-FOUR-HOUR WEEK
IN OPERATION IN SYDNEY. PRICE OF MEALS INCREASED. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, January 18. As a result of the introduction of the forty-four-hour week, the Caterers and Restaurants’ Association has increased the price of meals by 3d from to-day. INJURIOUS TO TRADE. BUSINESSES REMOVING TO MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, January 18. A large confectionery manufacturer who recently bought for £68,000 a controlling interest in a Sydney enterprise announces that he is removing the whole plant employed in the Sydney business to Melbourne, mainly as a result of the fortyfour liour week. He is of opinion that for the same reason many other industries will be compelled to leave New South Wales.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19691, 19 January 1926, Page 9
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