NO STRIKE AT AROWHENUA

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22507, 15 September 1938, Page 18

NO STRIKE AT AROWHENUA

AMICABLE AGREEMENT REACHED MAORI WORKERS EMPLOYED IN PA [THE PRESS Special Service.] < TEMUKA, September 14. An amicable agreement has been reached in the dispute of the Maori men working on the Government relief scheme in the Arowhenua pa at Temuka. Work began as usual this morning, most of the men saying that there had been’ no intention of holding a strike. The information which had been released to the newspapers was unauthorised, said one spokesman. A small section of the .men had been the main instigators of the trouble. It was true, said the spokesman, that the instructions of the placement officers that one man should report for work as a wool-presser and that all single men would be required for farm work had been considered contrary to the assurance given by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) at a recent banquet at Arowhenua, that the men would be kept in employment in the pa. It was also true that a telegram had been sent to the Prime Minister. The general wish, however, had not been for a strike, and work would have continued as usual while the reply was awaited. No information had been received by “The Press” late last night that a direct reply to the telegram had beep received by the sender, Mr G Rangi. the secretary of. the Maori Labour Committee at Arowhenua.