SLAUGHTERMEN AT ABATTOIR
OBJECTION TO EXEMPTION FROM SERVICE By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, January 16. In view of the fact that a number of slaughtermen at the Municipal Abattoir had made it known to the management that they wishfed to enlist, the City Council, at a special meeting, resolved to make formal application to the Placement Officer at Auckland that essential workers at the abattoir should be placed on the same footing as freezing workers and debarred from military service. The Council’s decision is to be discussed by the men concerned at a meeting to-morrow.
It was stated that men otherwise eligible for service overseas objected to the proposed exemption. They submitted that they were not engaged in the vital export meat trade and that there were older tnen who could fill their places on the boards for the time being.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21554, 17 January 1940, Page 6
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140SLAUGHTERMEN AT ABATTOIR Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21554, 17 January 1940, Page 6
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