REFUSAL TO WORK IN SNOW
RELIEF DISMISSED. KAINGAROA FORESTRY CAMP. By Telegraph.—Preus Association. Rotorua, Last Night. Finding the cold on the ’ Kaingaroa Plains so intense that they, were unabla to work, 29 men in a single relief workers’ forestry camp 80 miles from Rotorua yesterday returned to" camp. During the morning and lunch time they. were given the opportunity tu return to work, but refused to do so and were discharged. The men reached Rotorua in a body this afternoon and were paid off. This evening the men held a meeting and decided to appeal to be re-engaged in a body. The conservator of foresta, Mr. E. M. Morrison, will meet the men’s delegates to-day. It is understood that the men generally are satisfied with the camp conditions but refuse to be forced to work in tho plantations in the snow and" intense cold.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1932, Page 6
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