AWAY FROM HOME TOWNS
PRIVILEGE FOR ESSENTIAL WORKERS FREE RAIL TRANSPORT AT CHRISTMAS LEAVE (Special.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 20. Workers compulsorily directed from their homes are to receive free return second class rail tickets if given Christmas leave. This privilege, states Mr McLagan, Minister of Industrial Man Power, applies to the following classes of workers:— t (a) Any worker who has been directed away from his or her home centre to an undertaking still covered by declaration of essentiality. (b) Any worker who was directed away from his home to work under the essential building works labour legislation modification order of 1943, and is now employed on work covered by a declaration of essentiality which prevents him from returning to his home centre. The Minister added that these workers wishing to join the family on holiday may bo issued with a return fare to any other place, provided the cost is not greater than the faro to the worker's home town. The worker will otherwise be required to meet the difference.
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Evening Star, Issue 25619, 20 October 1945, Page 6
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170AWAY FROM HOME TOWNS Evening Star, Issue 25619, 20 October 1945, Page 6
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