REDUCING HANDS
BIG,MOTOR WORKS
Regulating its staff according to the requirements of its New Zealand trade, the General Motors Corporation is reducing hands at its assembly plants at Petone, Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin.
The Petone works maintained full output throughout the Christmas and New Year holidays, but yesterday fifty men were put off for the afternoon. This led to exaggerated reports, which rapidly gained circulation in the city, that the works were being closed down. The actual position is that the Petone works on loth January employed 432 men. The rush having then passed, the total was reduced to 412 at the end of January, and it is expected that as the plant is now running under standard conditions the necessary output will be maintained with a total staff of from 350 to 375 employees, to which point it will be reduced within the next few weeks.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1927, Page 10
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147REDUCING HANDS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1927, Page 10
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