THE SUSPENSION OF-PUBLIC WORKS.

Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1901, Page 5

THE SUSPENSION OF-PUBLIC WORKS.

[BT TELEOBAPH— PBESS ASSOCIATION.] NEW PLYMOUTH, 2nd December. The Taranaki Herald's correspondent at Tongaporutu telephones that eleven men ' engaged in roadmakincr under the Government -were discharged on Saturday. Others further north, have also been; discharged. STRATFORD, 2nd December." Seventy men have been dismissed from the Ohura Road Works. The thirty men retained are to be resident settlers. AUCKLAND, Thia Day. It is Stated that at least 300 men out of a total of about five or six hundred employed on the northern end of the Trunk Railway line were lost week' discharged without any explanation. Work is for the most part carried on by co-operative contracts, the parties being divided into six men. The statement made that the men dispensed with had completed their contracts' is denied by the men themselves. In nearly every instance the contracts were far from completed when the men were discharged. All the single men employed have had their services dispensed with, aud only married men remain. In place of some five or six hundred employed a fortnight back, and some seven hundred a lew months ago, there are now barely two or three hundred engaged on, the works, which stretch from Ongaruhe to beyond the Wanganui river.