WORK CEASES
BY ORDER*OF N : EVv| gJsV'ERNMEN'D NO REASON ASCERTAINABLE.
V (Per Pr&i Association^-Copyright).
WAIROA, January 16.
: Exploratory work at Onepoto, Lake Waikarempana, in connection with improving the hydro electric scheme, em« ploying upwards' of one hundred men, closed down last night by instructions 1 from -the Public Works Department at Wellington.
No reason is ascertainable, but it is remembered the Hon. R. Semple was very reticent .concerning this undertaking when he recently visited, the district, on which occasion he descended a shaft to inspect, the class of country in which the work was being carried out.
It is .understood thg men who- Jiava'* been discharged have been offered work! at Watahuna improving the lake roadL to Rotorua. This is the first job on which cessation of activities has been ordered by the new Government.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1936, Page 5
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