WAITAKI HYDRO.
WORKING STAFF REDUCED. By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, December 28. Two hundred men have been put off from the Waitaki hydro-electric works, according to a statement by the engineer-in-chief, Mr R. H. Packwood. He denied a report that drastic reductions had been made, and maintained that 200 men had had to be dispensed with because the summer was the offseason for carrying on work. At the end of November there were 1200 men on the works. To-day the total is 1000. Mr Packwood states that many of the men left of their own accord to take up seasonal work in shearing and harvesting.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 18762, 29 December 1930, Page 8
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104WAITAKI HYDRO. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 18762, 29 December 1930, Page 8
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