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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18597, 7 January 1935, Page 6

A very surprised man was Mr. D. McDonald, says the Christchurch Times. Recently he had a load of timber delivered to a section in Richmond terrace. New Brighton, for the purpose of beginning the building _of a house. The timber was duly delivered, but two days later when operations were to begin, not • one square inch remained. “New Zealanders would probably be astounded to know the cost of labor in the United States,” declared Mr. .1. R. Templin on his return to Christchurch from a trip to that country. He said that union labor in the building trade was demanding from a dollar to a dollar and 20 cents an hour, while quite competent non-union labor asked from 50 to 60 cents an hour. In the big cities the bulk of the labor was done by union men, but in the country it was found that the farmers could not.employ them at the figure they sought. It was almost, impossible to credit in the present depression 1 that such payment should be wanted, he said.

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