Industrial Association.
(Per Press Asiooiation.) Wellington, This day. The oommittee of the Industrial Association, on the motion of Mr Brown, set up a oommittee to enquire into the reason why some manufactures are apparently going baok, notably boots and agricultural implements, and if possible, suggest a remedy. Mr Brown gave some interesting figures. The boot trade, he said, employed less men than formerly, and the importation had increased. Five hundred and twenty less men were engaged in making implements than in 1899. The Official Year Books showed there were 140,000 acres loss in grain crops etc. than in 1898, and about 1,200,000 more in grass. The question was whether the people were going out of occupations employing labour and going into grazing, which employed the least labor.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 4277, 12 November 1901, Page 3
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127Industrial Association. Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 4277, 12 November 1901, Page 3
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