OTIRA TUNNEL
... « ■ WORK HELD UP AGAIN. By Telegraph-Press Association. Christchurch, July 12. ( The tunnel workers at the Arthurs Pass end of the Otira tunnel have been "out" since last Thursday weekJul 1 ), when their contract expired. The men, numbering 33, refused to go back to rate of P«y ns ' IIP nien , ftt , ° end Thev claim that they have now Ze into 'the inferior elas.of country for which the Otira rales were fixed. The Minister of Public Works; Mr. J G. Coates) states that he has ordered a report to be made upon the subject, but the men ask for a quicker settlement, and two delegates to-day asked the Canterbury Progress League and local members of Parliament to take the matte up. It » stated that no progress has been made m the tunnel for six weeks. |
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 247, 13 July 1920, Page 4
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135OTIRA TUNNEL Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 247, 13 July 1920, Page 4
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