PUBLIC WORKS CAMP TRAGEDY
TO TOT EOITOB OV Till PHE39. Sir, —It was. to say the least, unwise cf a local secretary of the New Zealand Workers' Union, to try to make political capital out of this sad calamity. A picture in an illustrated paper, discloses that the camp was made in the middle of the gorge, only a very few feet above normal river level. To-day the site is an island, with a water course on either side. No one could argue that the Prime Minister and the Minister for Public "Works were personally responsible for the loss of life which resulted from the choice of such a death trap as a camp site, but it is obvious that their haste in proclaiming the calamity as an "act of God" was inspired by anxiety to exempt from blame the departmental officers who chese the site. — Yours, etc.. OBSERVER. February 26, 1938.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22338, 28 February 1938, Page 9
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