Drivers On Contract To M.O.W. Put Off
(New Zealand Press Association) HAMILTON, March 17. Twenty-four private truck contractors in the Turangi district have been dismissed from work on Ministry of Works contracts.
Nine of the owner-driven trucks which were employed on the Tongariro power development project stopped work yesterday, and 15 contractors working on State Highway 41 alignment work between Turangi and Taumarunui are to stop today. Mr S. M. Dye, Ministry of Works transport officer on the power project, said today that lack of work on the project has caused the situation. But the contractors were bitter about the dismissal. They said the slow-down on
work on the project and the failure of the Government to make money available for reconstruction work on the controversial State Highway 41, were the causes of the dismissals. One said: “Many of us will have to leave the area because truck work is just not available with anyone.”
Others feared that their services would be dispensed with during the next few weeks. The contractors hold only temporary licences, and can be dismissed with one hour’s notice.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31322, 18 March 1967, Page 3
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