TROUBLE AT AKAU.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 632, 8 October 1909, Page 8

TROUBLE AT AKAU.

;-•;' CASES OF HARDSHIP, '.-"/-".' : \ ißyiTelokcaDh.-SDCcIM •CnrrMDonoentil' ;1 ,™. '- '' Vj. i '.'-'•.' Auckland,' October 7.' ■ The-sudden.c«ss tt t«)ii o£. the construction of the road, to,'conueot tho Manrati'sec'iona of tUe.Te Akau Block Mth theEaK HaJbour ent) oreated much adverse criticism anefdis.; satisfaction. When word oame' through from headquarters that-all work was' to bo su£ ' ponded, one would, have thought • that the men would.have been immediately paid off, but the ' Government doesnot.do, things in the ordinary way.. It both dismisses and pays .at'its own _ wi11.,; ThoV contractors, are incomplete have ,to finish tl / when the' Government calls upon them"to'Uj so.'ahd in some oases not yet received'payment for what work they havo done. OuV contractor had just, got his: horses and.;gear: on tin ground; an eight days' taeki.-and nirido "a start with.his contract, when ho, was knocked off with- tho.rest, -"A 'party, of workfrion: had puf in ; a three months .supply of.'provisions;- thoii camp being, situated sonio distance from 1 Rag. lan,.'only a, fow' -days before. work'was. susP n i . • 11 nre , two 'i'oßaes, of individual hardship-, that havo'been broughtluhdor mi notice, and. no doubti there ato othors.- It is' f, s . mall . s ? ln !;?^ 0 ' ; these' men to"tell, them: thbJ"'' ' the work, will. bo-Jcontinued, whoruTarliumem votes, mora ..money. ' Had- they "known that thoywero liable; and- likely : to.:.be knockedofl at „ a: momentsonotiCo' before 'tho .road '.\nu half .niado. they. Would probably.: havo. looked ' for other employment, ■".'.'• ■"" ■