WELLINGTON GAS TROUBLE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 10 July 1917, Page 5

WELLINGTON GAS TROUBLE.

WELLINGTON, July 9. I rouble with the retort-house employees is continuing. The Gas Company has decided to cut off all supplies of gas at 6 o'clock to-night until 8 o clock in the morning, this course being adopted as one likely to cause the least dislocation of industry, the only alternative being the dislocation of industry by cutting off gas supplies- in the daytime, thus throwing works out ot employment and disturbing industries dependent for power unon gas en?i neS\ fu need for th*s *te» is that though the men who left in accordance with notice yesterday morning have been replaced by some thirty other employees, the latter are new to the work, and for a while will be unable to keep production up to the full pressure, ihe new men are working under skilled direction, and are reported to be shaping well A further development of the trouble is reported. It is understood that a coal-laden steamer at ivliramar wharf, where the supplies for the ga s works are usually landed, is unable to discharge owing to labor trouble.