WORKS SITE

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 7

WORKS SITE

Meeting Of Protest (N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, Feb. 7. The Mayor of Dunedin (Mr Calvert), president of the Otago Development Council, will call a special protest meeting of all interested persons and parties in the Council Chambers on Thursday to discuss what he calls “the very wrong decision” made by the South Island Freezing Works Investigation Committee in suggesting the siting of the new freezing works at Gore.

“We will make the strongest protest possible and try and have the matter reconsidered.

“This seems to be another instance of denying Otago its rights to develop its own potential,” he said. “We created the whole thing, applied for the freezer licence and brought the whole issue to light. Southland moved in and we lost it.”

Representatives of Otago organisations involved said they would be putting forward further constructive proposals and did not merely intend to protest.

Opposition By Union (N.Z. Press Association) INVERCARGILL, Feb. 7. The Otago-Southland Freezing Workers’ Union will continue to oppose the formation of a fifth freezing works in Southland as recommended by the South Island Freezing Works Investigation Committee. The union vice-president, Mr B. Mason, of Invercargill, who represented the union at the committee’s hearings in Dunedin last year said the committee’s recommendation that a new works be established near Gore would be discussed at a district executive meeting next Thursday. “We opposed the setting up of a new works in Southland when the committee met and we haven’t changed our position,” said Mr Mason. He said if the new works was established near Gore it would mean that there were five works within a 40-mile radius of Invercargill. Short time was already being worked in Otago and Southland works and a fifth works would only aggravate the position.