THE OTIRA TUNNEL
TROUBLE WITH CONTRACTORS. DEMAND FOR HIGHER RATES. (By Telegraph.—Prose Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The tunnel workers at Arthur’s Pass j end of tlie Otira tunnel have been “out* since last Thursday week, July Ist, when their contract expire*!.. Th<J men, numbering 33, refused to go back j to, wbrk unEosa they were granted the same ratejs of pay as the men. at the Otira end. They claim that they have; now come- into an inferior dates of conn-: try, for which the Otira rates were fix-. ed. The Minister of Public Works ( states that he ha s ordered a report to fee made upon the subject, bat the men ask for a. quicker settlement, and two, delegates have asked the Canterbury j Progress League and the local members | of Parliament to take the matter up. j lb is stated that no progress has been j made in the tunnel for six weeks.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 5962, 13 July 1920, Page 3
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