STRIKE ENDED AT LAKE TEKAPO
MEN RESUME MORE
From Our Own Reporter TIMARU, February 23. The strike involving 220 employees of the Public Works Department at Lake Tekapo ended this morning when the men returned to work.
“The resident engineer (Mr R. Deans Ritchie) has returned to Lake Tekapo and harmonious relations have been restored,” says a statement from the Lake Tekapo Workers’ Union. The strike started on February 13 at 3.L0 p.m., when exception was taken to the dismissal of two men who had been ordered to do work, which, it was claimed, was outside the scope of their agreement. Senior engineers of the Public Works Department and officials of the New Zealand Workers’ Union negotiated in the dispute, which was settled late on Tuesday evening. The district engineer of the Public Works Department at Christchurch (Mr W. L. Belp said at Lake Tekapo to-day that any statement on departmental attitude would be issued by the Minister.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25737, 24 February 1949, Page 6
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