A CORRECTION
In reporting tlhe electrical workers’ dispute in the Arbitration Court, it was stated in The Dominion on Saturday last that Mr. Swindell, secretary of the Electrical Workers’ Union, had s’ated that "the Power Board in the Wairarapa took the workmen nut. to work 1G miles distant, but point-blank had refused to bring them back, and the men had to get back as best they could/’ Mr. G. Biown, secretary of the Power Board referred to, has written to Mr. W. Grenfell that the statement is contrary to fact, and that' in each centre motor vehicles are stationed for tho sole purpose of taking the men io and bringing them hpek from their work. Mr. Grenfell brought the matter and the letter before. ihe Arbitration Court, last evening in the presence of Mr. Swindell, who claimed tbat he had been misreported, saving that. what, he had said was that; the board had refused io pay overtime travelling rates. t
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 57, 29 November 1924, Page 8
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160A CORRECTION Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 57, 29 November 1924, Page 8
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