AUCKLAND BUS DRIVERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 214, 10 September 1945, Page 4

AUCKLAND BUS DRIVERS

TRIBUNAL TO CONSIDER THEIR GRIEV ANCES'

(P.A.) Auckland, Sept. 9. The acting-Minister of Labour, Mr. O’Brien, has agreed to set up a tribunal to consider matters in the dispute between the Auckland bus drivers and their employers. The result of this decision is that drivers will not now carry out t heir threat to cease operations altc/ the completion of the final shift to day. the time limit placed by the men on their request for the tribunal. The Minister, who arrived from* Wellington, received the secretary of the Auckland Drivers’ Union, Mr. L. G. Matthews, and a committee of lhe drivers. Mr. O'Brien was given an outline of the drivers’ claims. trolfer for a bigger allocation Some timber merchants bare fail slocks of timber being air dried, but this process takes anything up to two years, whereas the dry kiln n;ethod "occupies only weeks, although it adds about 10s a 100 ft. to the cost, jhe problem of the trade everywhere is for the bush output, to he increased, to get stocks of seasoned timber, ana One trouble is a shortage of bushmci?. but this may be met as men return from overseas.