INSANITARY WORKSHOPS
RATLWAYAIEN’S PROTEST. • (By Telegra; In— Press Association). AUCKLAND. Jan. 15. ‘Tin- ii" meeting of 700 men. com ' idle staff of the • Otnliu.hu Railway Workshops, views with indignation and alarm the insanitary condition of these premises. Being at (iresent aware of the outbreak of typhoid in a dwelling adjacent to these shops, this makes us more pessimistic regarding o.ur safety. Wo regard the unnecessary haste in shifting such a large body of men from a. comparatively sanitary building at Newmarket as regrettable. and request the Alinister of Public Health to take immediate steps to investigate our complaints with a view to minimising the risk- oPa serious epidemic similar to that at Waikoria.” The foregoing resolution was carried unanimously at a mass meeting of Government ntilv. ay workshops employees.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1929, Page 6
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