WESTFIELD HOLD-UP

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 137, 12 June 1941, Page 4

WESTFIELD HOLD-UP

NEW ANGLE REVEALED

LiABOI'H M.P. WANTS FIGURES (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The action of employees of the Westfiekl Freezing Works taking half a day off without leave to see the Great Northern Steeplechase run at Ellerslie was again referred to in the House of Representatives yesterday, when Mr. O'Brien (Government, Westland) pave the matter a new angle by moving for a return showing:— (1) The number of men who left their • employment at the "Westneld Works on a recent afternoon to attend a race meeting at Auckland. (2) The number of hours of overtime worked by these men during the past few months. (3) The importance of the work the men were engaged on. (4) The number of businossmen, employers, sheep-owners and farmers attending the same race meeting, and the number of days each of those people lost attending the same race meeting. (5) The number of motor cars used by the above in attending the race meeting. (6) The amount of petrol consumed by them in attending the race meeting. (7) The amount of money put through the totalisator at the race meeting, and the amount of taxation that could be taken from this money to assist New Zealand's war effort.