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Report Denied By President There would be no Dominionwide stoppage of public transport on Friday, said the national president of the Public Passenger Transport Authorities' xmployees’ Union (Mr ,1* C. JSouthon) in Christchurch last evening. He was commenting on an earlier report which-said a special meeting of the Auckland Transport Board was told, YCaterdw. that stop-work meetings would be held on Friday with the Object of instructing union members not to operate the rear doom of "There has been no thought of a stoppage.” said Mr Southon. He said he. had just returned tram Wellington where toe /natter had been discussed with the Minister of Labour (Mr Hackett). The outcome was that toe union expected to hold a meeting with the employers. Another report said that top dispute over the two-man operation of Wellington City Council buses had been taken up by Mr Hackett after assurances from the union that no atop-woxdr meetings would be heli and Jh*t union members would not refuse to work the rosters for the Brooklyn-Aro street change-over on Sunday from diesel to trolley That statement, said • Mr Southon, was the only one of any merit. -
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29220, 2 June 1960, Page 14
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193NO TRANSPORT STOPPAGE Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29220, 2 June 1960, Page 14
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