Car Plant Cuts Staff
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Dec. 22. Twenty-five employed by Campbell Industries, Ltd, at their car assembly plant at Thames were laid off tonight Output at the plant which assembles American Ramblers, French Peugeots and Japanese Hinos, is being cut by 15 per cent said Mr V. H. Bedford, a director, because of the uncertainty of the market as a result of devaluation. The men were warned two months ago that they would be laid off. The company was trying to tiaintain 175 fully trained staff and fired on a last-come-first-off basis, said Mr Bedford. “It is a very expensive thing for us to put men off and it was not done lightly.” The company employed 230 men at Thames, he said, and they were divided between the assembly and manufacturing plants. Some of the assembly men had been moved into manufacturing.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31560, 23 December 1967, Page 28
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