‘Urgent’ action needed for building industry
PA Rotorua The Labour leader, Mr Rowling, has called for urgent and specific Government action to stimulate the building industry, to prevent further extensive lay-offs among timber workers. He said from Wellington that news that a further 220 workers employed by Tasman Forest Industries at Kawerau and Murupara were likely to lose their jobs showed . how desperate the situation had already become. He warned that those layoffs would be only the start if the Government continued
to sit “paralysed.” Mr Rowling was critical of the Fletcher Challenge-Tas-man consortium for expanding into'.the Canadian timber trade at a time when it was cutting back on its existing holdings in New Zealand. He said a Labour government would seek to encourage major New Zealand industries to concentrate their resources in the local market in times of serious recession. “The building industry is a major economic catalyst and it must be stimulated as a matter of extreme urgency,” he said.
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