LAKE COLERIDGE CONDITIONS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1482, 3 July 1912, Page 6

LAKE COLERIDGE CONDITIONS.

CHAHGES REFUTED

(By Telegraph.—Press Atwclatioa.) Christchurch, July 2, , Statements published locallr, reflecting in a senous mannor, on tho conditions at employment at tho Lake Coleridge works / ii o l'' nec Iju • .'J 10 hydro-electric in' Mnlfilr' 1 aro P 1! '/J' contractor, J. *,? ;! Il . all) s, who states that there is no dissatisfaction amongst tho men on tho worte, and that tho allegation of bad conditions 13 absolutely untrue. Ryan was only working at Lake Colorideo for three days, and then loft, while Elliott) left m consequence of some disagreement, and, as far as their statements were con-» corned, Mr. 11 Williams gavo an emphatic denial, and added: "I challenge anyone? to p> to tho works and examine tho com' 'I;™ 11 , 5 . 1 don t caro who he is." Mr-j M Williams went 011 to say that very fewj men had left him at tho works, and lio 1 was satisfied that an inquiry among th» men themselves would show that tho conditions wero good. The men lived in freo cottages, and woro charged oulv 18s. fop their food, and tho food was good. Ho thought that tho men never cot better food in their lives before. There had been one or two shortages, but that was inseparable from a largo camp far away from tho baso' of supplies. Tho wages' paid'-wero good, tlio men in tho shaft earning 13s. por day. Of courso, in large gatherings of men, there wero always som» who were novcr satisfied, and who mads troublo unless everything was mado toj suit them. It was a pity that theso sort* of men gx>t tho ear of tho newspapers.