‘Disputes, age, cause of Patea’s troubles
PA Wellington The age of the Patea freezing works and the “endless" industrial stoppages there were the prime reasons the town now had major problems, according to the president of Rangitikei Federated Farmers. Mr Graeme Gordon. In the face of a more competitive climate after the
delicensing of the meat industry the owners of the Patea works had no option but to close the works, Mr Gordon said. Farmers had been “frustrated for years by industrial trouble, compounded by the very antiquated nature of the buildings" at Patea, he said. The overriding consideration had to be the viability of the farming industry, “because without that considerably more than 800 jobs would be in danger. Farmers would do everything they could to assist redundant workers short of artificially propping up an uneconomic works, he said.
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Press, 17 July 1982, Page 3
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