FINANCE IN N.S.W.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 62, 6 November 1912, Page 3

FINANCE IN N.S.W.

WHOLESALE “SACKING” OF MEN

Sydney, November 5.

The Government’s predicament and the shortage of money has produced r further wholesale sacking. Five hundred employees of the Water Board have been dismissed. The Board, which expended £BO,OOO in the past four months, has been informed 1 that £75,000 will be available for the remaining eight months of the year, and possibly another 500 men will be dismissed. The necessary employees at present total 2000.

The secretary of the Water Board Employees’ Union declares that if a thousand men are dismissed it will

cause a revolution

Mr McGowen, speaking in the Assembly, said he was unaware that the men were dismissed owing to the strain of the finances.

AN ALL-ROUND SLACKNESS

(Received 9.50 a.m.) Sydney, November G

Sacking the water hands means the stoppoge of a number of works, and consequence serious interference with building operations in the 1 outer suburbs.

Owing to slackness of work at the Garden Island naval yard, two hundred men were dismissed. The curtailment of the Murrumbidgee irrigation works involve the displacement of a largo number.