THE CANNING INDUSTRY.
POSITION AT FRIMLEY. It was announced in this column last week that both the Frimley Canning Co., Hastings, and Messrs E. H. Crease and Co., were discontinuing the canning of dessert and pie fruits. The reason advanced by the Frimley Company was the impossibility of securing sufficient and remunerative labour. The Napier Telegraph has been making some inquiries in Hastings, and asked the manager of the Frimley works (Mr Basil Jones) whether the trouble only affected the present season. Mr Jones said he could hardly answer this question
at present, but, he added, if there were no better prospects later on than there are now, the company would have no option but to close down on canning both fruit and vegetables, and the only hope then for the district would be to turn the concern into a regular jam factory, and a manufactory for sundry grocers' stores —such as puddings, mince-meat, peels, peppers, sauces, etc.; in fact, the same class of work that the company have been turning out for the past couple of winters. " I do not know what we would do if we had not these lines to fall back upon," said Mr Jones. I
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Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 184, 31 January 1913, Page 4
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