BUILDING SITES
Health risk alleged (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 24. Conditions on most building sites were a health hazard to both workers and the community at large, said Mr A. Russ, national secretary of the Carpenters and Related Trades Union.
In a paper to the first Auckland building development conference today, he said that lavatories on most sites were so atrocious that they defied description; washing facilities were negligible and workers had to wash from a cold water tap usually surrounded by mud;' change sheds and luncheon rooms, if a lunch room existed at all, were filthy. His union knew of many cases where lavatory facilities were a mere hole in the ground with three walls, while the washing facilities consisted only of a tap protruding from the ground. These conditions applied even in built-up city areas, Mr Russ said.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32565, 26 March 1971, Page 4
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