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A Press Association telegram from New Plymouth states that two lighters employed in loading meat off Waitara were driven ashore last night near the mouth of the Waiongona river. The liner had to put to sea, and the lighters were unable to return to port. Both were empty.
Tho Christehurch Tramway Employees' Union has demanded an increase of wages, and have adopted a policy of running the trains strictly accdrding to rules and irrespective of time-table. Tho men decline a conferonce with the Board, holding that it is unecessary.
"To-day I am losing somewhere about £1 per head on every pig we kill," said an employers' assessor during the hearing of the dispute in the bacon curing industry at the Conciliation Council in Christchurch last week (reports the Press). "I am hoping that the tide will turn," he continued, "but the trade in this district is leaving the factories and going into small concerns." If this state of affairs prevailed for another year or two, he said, he would be forced to go out of business. "But can't you raise the price of bacon?" asked the assessor on the other side of the table. "No, 1 can't," was the reply.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13896, 23 October 1918, Page 6
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