Local farm workers, impoverished by a succession of droughts and failed harvests, were employed at one shilling per day ( enough to sustain a family in the Georgian era ) to tunnel beneath ground and mine chalk and flint.

* Local Harvest, a resource for the buy local, farm product and other ' alternative market ' food, activism, news and event

in June 2008, UFCW Canada Local 832 ( Manitoba ) was successful in achieving a first collective agreement covering some 60 Mexican migrant farm workers at Mayfair Farms in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba.

So complete was the absence of any presence of living or struggling life in them that [...] it was imagined that the burning carriages were destitute of passengers. Local farm labourers and quarry workers eventually formed a bucket chain to fetch water from the sea 200 yards away to put out the fire in these carriages ; when they did the victims were found to be burnt beyond recognition " charred pieces of flesh and bone ".

Local people, musicians, artists, and folks from other communes began staying at the mountain-top farm.

Local Nurseries and florists ’ outlets blossomed, while casual farm labouring job opportunities on farms became in short supply.

Local Nurseries and florists ’ outlets blossomed, while casual farm labouring job opportunities on farms became in short supply.

Local commercial visitor attractions include the Steam Museum at Lodge Park, and a Butterfly farm.

Local craftsmen produce some cloth, make clothing, farm implements, and utensils while others provide transport services and labour.

Local attractions include a working farm and roadside market, a golf course, marinas and public boat launch sites, and the deep saltwater fjord of Hood Canal.

Local legend has it that a runaway millstone from this mill is the source of the name Roundstone for the farm at the foot of the hill, which was subsequently used for the nearby pub and prominent garden centre.

Local opposition to some solar farm proposals centers on concerns about height above grade, noise and heat plume.

Local citizens organized against this proposal, and groups such as WHOA ( We Hold Officials Accountable ), SACReD ( South Arundel Citizens for Responsible Development ), and the Anne Arundel Green Party literally stood in front of the bulldozers to stop the farm from being torn down.

Local attractions include Waterhall Farm ( an open farm and craft centre ), and two country pubs, The Bull Inn and The Maidens Head.

Local legend has it that as Kiwi proved to be a fast and tireless horse on Lupton's farm that friends convinced him to enter Kiwi in a race at nearby Wanganui, to see how he ran.

Local strawberry farm

It was developed from farm land in around 1926 and was part of Bentley with Arksey Urban District until the formation of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster under the Local Government Act 1972.

Local Afro-Portuguese often acted as middlemen, the Europeans advancing them goods and they trading them to the local people, most often for ivory.

Local rulers, under treaties with the Europeans, procured goods and slaves from inhabitants of the interior.

; Local community displacement: Gift shops and cafés which cater for the needs of tourists are often more profitable than shops selling everyday goods for local people ( such as butchers or bakers ).

Local currencies also tend to operate in relatively small geographic regions and encourage recycling and reducing the amount of carbon emissions from the transportation and manufacture of goods.

Local artisans sell handcrafted goods and many merchants sport sidewalk sales.

Wooster also has a local food community including Local Roots, a collective year round farmer's market for locally produced goods.

Local laws ( or customer demand ) concerning distribution and packaging ( for example, the language on labels, units of measurement, and nutritional disclosure on foodstuffs ) can be brought into play, as can national standards certifications for certain goods.

Barter takes this further by swapping goods and services directly ; a compromise being the Local Exchange Trading Systems ( LETS ) scheme: a formalised system of Community-based economics that records members ’ mutual credit in a central location.

Local folklore circulates stories that the Capital Mall Complex may be connected to the original Chinese underground tunnels that were used so Chinese immigrants could move goods to buildings, smuggle opium, and travel after curfew.

* Local industry: pharmaceutical goods, tires, machinery, fertilizer, silk, perfume, wine, tea, cinnamon, herbal medicine

Local purchasing is a preference to buy locally produced goods and services over those produced more distantly.

On March 8, 2011, the Maine town of Sedgwick passed a Local Food and Self-Governance Ordinance which nullified existing federal and state laws over food and agriculture, including the power of federal inspection of locally-grown agricultural goods.

Local industries produce textiles, as well as processed food, and leather goods.

Local farmers cannot sell their goods as cheaply and go out of business.

Beckerman and Philip Orlofsky, another local officer in Cutters Local 4, made sweetheart deals with manufacturers that allowed them to subcontract to cut rate subcontractors out of town, using Buchalter's trucking companies to bring the goods back and forth.

Local traders carried goods and sold them at fairs in Serres, Drama, Melnik and Uzundzhovo.

He led successful campaigns for repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, the introduction of Civil Partnership for lesbian and gay people in the UK and the introduction of 2007 protections against discrimination in the provision of " goods and services ", covering areas from healthcare and housing to hotels and holidays.

Local industry along the river, using the power of the various falls, provided a steady market for goods.

This was intended to permit the building of an " outlet mall ", mainly consisting of retailing, although described as " factory outlets ", even though the area was zoned under its Local Environment Plan ( LEP ) for industrial uses, in which retailing was generally forbidden, except for a limited range of " bulky goods " or goods produced on the premises.

Local traders compensated to some degree for this by smuggling in goods like brandy through gaps in the town walls.

Among his allies within the ACW were Beckerman and Philip Orlofsky, another officer in Cutters Local 4, who made sweetheart deals with manufacturers that allowed them to subcontract to cut-rate subcontractors out of town, using Buchalter's trucking companies to bring the goods back and forth.

* Local Justice: How institutions allocate scarce goods and necessary burdens ( Russell Sage, 1992 )

Local and regional newspapers were used because of the small-scale production and transportation of these goods.

Local timber merchants are harvesting scarce species of rosewood trees from protected rainforests within Marojejy National Park and exporting the wood to China for the production of luxury furniture and musical instruments.

-Industrial Workers of the World Local 1 to bring timber workers and environmentalists together in common cause.

Local industries were timber getting, gold mining, dairying and quarrying for granite.

Empowered by the Dutch Elm Disease ( Local Authorities ) ( Amendment ) Order 1988, local authorities may order the destruction of any infected trees or timber, although in practice they usually do it themselves, successfully reducing the numbers of elm bark beetle Scolytus spp., the vector of elm disease.

Urban Renewal of the inner city commenced, Local Area Plans were established in conjunction with character housing protection provision to retain Brisbane's distinctive " tin and timber ' character.

Local industry centered around timber ; the name Rosewood refers to the reddish color of cut cedar wood.

Located in the middle of dairy and timber country, it is the centre of the Dungog Shire Local Government Area ( LGA ) and at the 2006 census it had a population of 2, 102 people.

Local industry is presented by aerospace, machine-building, automobile, military, iron and steel industry, engineering, metal traders and processors, timber, woodwork, pulp and paper, food, light, chemical and industry of construction materials, and one of the major ports of the Sea of Azov.

Local inquiries turned up little information about traveling over the mountains except that water, timber, and grazing were plentiful.

During the war emergency ( 1939-1946 ) he served as Local Defence Force ( LDF ) area company leader and on the district HQ staff, as well as initiating and directing a parish council movement for the distribution of 10, 000 tons of turf peat fuel and 750 tons of timber supplies from the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains to south Dublin homes during the war rationing period on a unique share system.