WALES' FAT YEARA
LONDON, Nov. 27. South Wales is enjoying unexampled prosperity. Thamp ships are charging 60s per ton freight for coal shipped to Rouen. It was 5s before the war, but is now 100s. One captain made £63,000 last ye-u- out of a part share .of a steamer. The coal owners are selling export cod at 70s per ton, and steel smelters are earning £16 weekly. A miner's family, where the father atw three sous.work irt pits, are receiving £27 10s weekly.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17730, 2 December 1919, Page 9
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83WALES' FAT YEARA Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17730, 2 December 1919, Page 9
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