RELIEF WORKERS IN COURT
JUDGMENT SUMMONSES HEARD.
MAGISTRATE REFUSES ORDERS. By Telesrraph.T-Pre»s Association. Wairoa, Last Night. Several judgment summonses wpra heard in the local court to-day against workers put off the Waikokopu-Gis-borne railway construction works. Mr. P. H. Harper, SAI., adjourned them for two months, emphatically refusing to make orders until the men were reemployed. His Worship said the Government’s aetion came as a bombshell to the workers and storekeepers were faced with heavy losses. Although his sympathies were with the business men, he thought that as the workers had been suddenly deprived of their means of livelihood their last pay would not go very far unless they were: re-employed quickly. The Government should be urged to find thein other employment, and no orders would be made in the meantime.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1931, Page 6
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