End for mill ‘almost relief’
The Alford Forest Woollen Mill in Ashburton officially closed at noon yesterday, ending almost 100 years of textile production. Workers spoken to yesterday said they had no jobs to go to, and the secretary of the Canterbury Woollen Workers’ Union, (Mr D. Shenker) said there are no other textile jobs for them in New Zealand. Mr Shenker said that in the last five years he had seen the membership of his
union decline from , about 2800 to less than 1200. He hoped once restructuring was. complete, a smaller industry might become viable. “There has got to be light at the end of the tunnel,” he said. There was an air of- resigned acceptance at the mill yesterdav and some workers . said that after all the tension \of waiting, they were almost relieved the end had come.
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