200 MEN PUT OFF
Waitaki Hydro-Electric Works ENGINEER’S EXPLANATION By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, December 28. Two hundred men have been put off from the Waitaki hydro-electric works, according to a statement by the engineer-in-chief, Mr. R. H. Packwood. He denied a report that drastic reductions had been made,, and maintained that the 200 men had had to be dispensed with because the sumer was the off-season for carrying on the work. At the end of November there were 1200 men on the works; to-day the total is 1000. Mr. Paekwood states that many of the men left of their own accord to take up seasonal work, shearing and harvesting.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 80, 29 December 1930, Page 10
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