CO-OPERATIVE TUNNELLING.
ORONGORONGO'S PROGRESS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.! DUNEDIN, this day. In a statement concerning the cooperative works, Mr. Robert Semple, leader of the Orongorongo tunnelling party, claimed that completion of the work between Easter and Christmas would constitute an Australasian record for such undertakings. At his party's speed the Otira tunnel would have been driven in five years instead of the Public Works Department's twelve. ' He also pointed out the clean accident' record of Orangorongo, whereas at Mangahao last year eight men were j killed, one blinded, and two blown up since Christmas. Mr. Semple added: "A very small section of working people, communists tbey style themselves, say that by adopting this prin-i ciple we foster the vicious idea of speeding up. That is bunkum. The! men on the job have an incentive to; work; they have responsibility and are not mere cogs in a wheel."
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 130, 2 June 1923, Page 5
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