REDUCING OUTPUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 143, 7 September 1927, Page 14

REDUCING OUTPUT

BUTTER BOX IMPORTATIONS Huge importations of foreign timber and butter boxes were stated to be the cause of the reduction in working days, when the employees of Ellis and Burnanct Ltd., Mananui, were notified that, in future, the timber mill would work only four days instead of five days a week, which has been the practice since before Christmas. The importations ed th ? demand for local timbers, i he question of either reducing hands or working a short week was consided th€ L directors of the company, and they chose the ls.tter course, be-

cause it would not add to the i uraber of unemployed. The company employs abou: 240 rnen and the loss in wages will be considerable. Business pc*ople are bound to feel the reduced sp E nding: power of the men.