PROSPERITY IN SOUTH WALES
HIGH PRICES AND HIGH WAGES,
Elec. Tel. Copy rj«nt— United Press Assn.i .Aus'rilian and N.Z. Cable A^ociatmu.t (Received Dec. l r 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 27. South Wales is enjoying unexampled prosperity, tramp ships are charging 60s per ton freight. Coal shipped to Rouen was 5s before the war and now is 100s, One. captain made sixty three thousand pounds last- year out of the part share of a steamer. The coal miners are selling export coall at. 70s per ton. Steel emelters are earning sixteen pounds weekly. A miner's family, where a father and three sons- work m the pits, is receiving £)27 10s . weekly.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15080, 1 December 1919, Page 3
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110PROSPERITY IN SOUTH WALES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15080, 1 December 1919, Page 3
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