Work on the Upper Wailaki scheme
Sir, —As reported in your paper of September 29, Mr R. L. G. Talbot, M.P., considers that the Government’s cut-back in .overtime on the Upper Waitaki schemes to be mismanagement. To some extent I agfee. In 1967 and 1968, when the economy was in better shape than now. the National Government cut us back to an 80-hour fortnight, not a 96-hour fortnight as this Government has done. He talks of delays adding costs. The National Government delayed the start of the Upper Waitaki schemes for two years, losing in the process a team of workers and administrators second to none. As for his concern for (people not being allowed to earn the extra money through overtime, I do not recall any National member being so concerned in 1967-68. I do remember Mr P. B. Allen, Minister of Works at the time, telling a meeting at Otematata that as far as he was concerned the Upper Waitaki would be delayed and that we would have no jobs to go to when Aviemore was completed. We do not forget those things, and in the coming weeks we will make sure that no-one else forgets them. — (Yours, etc., J. R. MORRISON, j September 30, 1975.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33965, 4 October 1975, Page 14
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