JUDGMENT ORDERS REFUSED
DEBTS OF UNEMPLOYED. DISCHARGED RAILWAY WORKERS (By Telegraph—Frees Association.) AVAIBOA, Jan. 15. Several judgment summonses were heard in the local court to-day against workers put off on the WaikokopuGisborne railway construction works. Mr. P. H. Harper adjourned them for two months, emphatically refusing to make orders until the men were reemployed. His Worship said the Government’s action came as a bombshell to the workers and storekeepers were faced with heavy losses. Although his sympathies were with the business men, he thought that as the workers had been suddenly deprived of their means of livelihood their last pay would not go very far unless they were re- ‘ employed quickly. The Government should be urged to find them other employment, and no orders would be made'in the meantime.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 16 January 1931, Page 5
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