Waimairi dump only outlet during strike
Christchurch truck and tanker drivers will be back at work today, after striking since their emergency stopwork meeting on Friday.
The most noticeable effect of the strike was the run on the only rubbish dump left open in Christchurch this week-end. However, the Christchurch drivers will join a national 24-hour strike from midnight on May 7 and other South Island centres may have more disruptions this week. The secretary of the Canterbury Drivers’ Union (Mr P. R. Liggett) left for Nelson yesterday, and will address drivers there at a stop-work meeting todayfilling in for the local union head, Mr L. Silcock, who was taken ill suddenly on Friday. Ashburton and Twizel drivers will also meet today, and Temuka and Fairlie drivers will meet tomorrow. The Canterbury union will investigate reports from drivers that “one or two” transport companies broke the strike on Friday.
Unionists voted on a show of hands to strike until today, in support of pay claims, and by secret ballot to support the national strike on May 8. The strike meant , that
rubbish bags were left uncollected on Friday. Riccarton Borough and Heathcote County residents will have these bags picked up today, but residents in Christchurch City and in Waimairi will not be so fortunate. Their rubbish bags will not be picked up until the end of the week.
Paparua County’s rubbish collection was not affected by the stoppage; all bags there are collected earlier in the week.
In any event, a lot of people took up their bags, and business was brisk at the only public rubbish dump open in Christchurch during the week-end.
The Waimairi dump, in Sawyers Arms Road, was working to capacity, because the other three localbody dumps were closed by the drivers’ strike.
The dump was forced to open an hour earlier than scheduled yesterday, to cope with the demand. As on Saturday, a queue of cars and trailers waiting to dump rubbish stretched out the gate of the dump, down Sawyers Arms Road, and across the intersection with Johns Road several hundred metres away.
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