“POOR RAILWAY AMENITIES”
Workers’ Meeting
Called
Railway workers will meet at the Carlyle street hall this evening to discuss wages, staffing and what they regard as a general lack of staff amenities at local Railways Department sheds and workshops. ■ The meeting has been called by the Canterbury branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, which has about 900 members.
"Amenities in some sections are so bad, private enterprise would be prosecuted for subjecting staff to them,” the secretary (Mr A. E. Armstrong) said yesterday. Mr Armstrong said that as a comparative newcomer to the railways he was amazed to see men working in crude, dilapidated surroundings. At the Addington workshops water was carted from about half a mile away and put into a tank. There was no drain to take the water away. It ran on to the ground. ’’Stench” "When I pushed an iron bar into, the ground under the tap where the men washed, the stench was enough to knock you down," he said. These conditions could be duplicated in greater or lesser degree in many country stations, he said.
‘The conditions are particularly bad when compared with the facilities at the new Christchurch railway station building," he said.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29508, 9 May 1961, Page 12
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