Ann: Trading Update and Dividend Deferral, page-20

NWH would not start up a training school if Management did not expect to need more employees than the market would easily accommodate. RIO plans to hire 1,500 new employees (see https://www.bhp.com/media-and-insig...e-1500-to-support-operations-and-the-economy/), and I imagine FMG and RIO would consider something similar.

On the virus that is causing so much angst, consider the refrain of the poem Deor written over a thousand years ago, "Þæs ofereode, þisses swa mæg" ("that passed away, so may this"). The letter "Þ” represents the Old English character called thorn that the ligature “th” replaced. Keyboards lack that character, so a "y" is often used to represent "Þ”. When you see "Ye olde antique shoppe" in mock Old English, you should read "Ye" as "The", and pronounce it as "the".