“ Half the offices in Auckland are empty just now,” said Air B. Spencer, giving evidence on behalf of employers when the award of the Auckland City Cleaners, Caretakers, and Liftmen’s Industrial Union of Workers was under review in the Arbitration Court recently. “ You have only to walk along Customs street ■and Anzae avenue and look at the ‘To let ’ notices on the windows of buildings to see this.” Air Spencer mentioned a new building in Anzac avenue, where only one and a-half floors were let, and he estimated the owners were losing £lOO a week. The position was that owners of buildings were now obliged to rent their offices at half what they were charging two years ago.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3870, 15 May 1928, Page 24
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