KOTEMAORI TUNNEL
CONDITIONS OF WORK (By Telegrapn—Pres* Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. A statement of the conditions of work being encountered in the driving of the Kotemaori tunnel, on the Wairoa,-Gis-borne railway, was made to-day by Mr Cook, secretary of the New eZaland Workers’ Union, in repudiation of what he describes as a grossly unfair and misleading report recently regarding the rates of pay on the job. According to Mr Cook the conditions in the tunnel, owing to the wet and the nature of. the country, are peculiarly bad, and the men are asking only a fair thing. * In response to an inquiry to-day the Minister of Public Works said an inspecting engineer of the department was at present in the Napier district looking into statements made with regard to the tunnel, and pending the receipt of a report he hacl no statement to make.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 11 May 1929, Page 6
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