DENIAL OF PRIORITY
WORKERS' STATEMENT (P.A.) GREYMOUTH. May 2. An emphatic denial that their members received any priority supplies of tobacco or cigarettes was given yesterday by representatives of the main local unions—the Miners’, Timberworkers’ and Watersiders.’ ‘‘We stand in queues with the rest of the people”—this statement by one officer summed up the attitude of all three.
“ABSOLUTELY WRONG"
(P.A.) DUNEDIN. May 1. The statement from Christchurch was ‘‘absolutely wrong,” said the secretary of the Dunedin Watersiders’ Union, Mr. S S. Macdonald. The waterside workers at Dunedin and Port Chalmers had never received priority supplies of tobacco or cigarettes, he said.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 2 May 1947, Page 4
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102DENIAL OF PRIORITY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 2 May 1947, Page 4
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