LABOUR TROUBLES.
LONDON, August 28
Sir Christopher Furness, the head of the firm ot Furness, Withy; and Co., shipbuilders, speaking at West Hartiex pool, said that owing to labour troubles orders for eeven ships had been lost, the result of his inability to guarantee delivery by a certain date. These orders would have provided work for the shipyards and engine and steel works, and: employment for considerably more men than_ were now employed at Hartlepooi and West Hartlepool. He hoped that the cheapness of money would tend to hasten the return of good trade.
Thff manufacture of cigarettes in Franca began in 1843, and now the factories turn ' out 400,000 cigarettes every year.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2842, 2 September 1908, Page 27
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