GOVT. NOMINEE RESIGNS FROM DAIRY BOARD
X WELLINGTON, Dec. 17. The Government nominee on the New Zealand Dairy. Board (Mr. W. E. Scott) sent. his resignation to the Minister of Agriculture today. In an accompanyiu£ letter Mr. Scott told the Min ister that because of the Government 's recent Order-in-Council allowing additional penal ' rates for Sunday work in dairy factories, liis position as Govern ment nominee on the Dairy Board had become untenable. This was the major development today in the dairy factory dispute. The ultimatum of the Waikato and North land branches of the Dairy Factory Workers' Union to their employers stil] stands. The workers claim certain major concessions and f ailing a settlement tomorrow have threatened to strike. The employers have insisted that the norrnal legal process of con ciliation under the Industrial Coneilia tion and Arbitration Act must be pur sued. They have protested to the Frime Minister in strong terms against Monday's Order-in-Council.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 December 1946, Page 7
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