There are approximately 573,821 employees of railway companies in the United Kingdom earning over 15s and under £3 per week, and 48,520 boys and! girls earning 15s or less, the average weekly earnings of tho total employees (630.425) being about 255. There is land hunger in New South Wales as well as in New Zealand. < For 11 blocks made available in the Richmond River district in tho northern part of New South Wales last week, altogether no fewenr than 1332 applications were received, with deposits totalling £7153 12s.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3003, 4 October 1911, Page 76
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