Doctor Late So Miners Stop Work
(Special) WESTPORT, This Day. As a protest against the non-arrival of a doctor who had been appointed for the district by the Health Department, the Millerton mine was idle yesterday. The miners at a recent meeting made a strong protest at the unsatisfactory position concerning medical officers, and it was suggested that because ot the need for urgent attention to injured miners no work should be done at the mines until a permanent appointment was made. HUNTLY MEN RESUME ,
Work was resumed yesterday morning at the McDonald mine, which was idle on Monday owing to a prolonged stop-work meeting to discuss a small dispute.
The men of the Rotowaro and Alison mines held a meeting yesterday at the Rotowaro railway station.
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Northern Advocate, 26 June 1946, Page 4
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