RIVER WORKS DISPUTE.
MR BARNARD REPLIES. Per Press Association. AVELLINGTON, June 12. “I am surprised at Mr Semple’s action in telling only half of the truth regarding the substitution two or three years ago of men for machinery in connection with the work on the. banks of the Ngaruroro River,” said Hon. AV. E. Barnard, M.P. for Napier, today. “The position is that in co-operation with Mr E. L. Cullen, M.P., I made representations to Mr Fraser on behalf of some 80 or 90 workers who would have been displaced and forced on to sustenance if public works machinery had been used by the Rivers Board. I believe /that during the absence of Mr Semple in Australia a Cabinet decision was made that the men should continue to’be employed, so if Mr Semple has any grouse it should be with his Cabinet and not me. “If I bad to choose again between the needs of the men, their wives, and children, on the one hand, and the cheapening of the job through the'use of machinery, on the other, I should be constrained to act in the same way, and I believe the Minister of Public AA T orks would do the same.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 166, 13 June 1940, Page 8
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202RIVER WORKS DISPUTE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 166, 13 June 1940, Page 8
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