WORK TO BE CONTINUED
NO INCREASE IN RATES OF PAY. AUCKLAND, May 20. Intimation that it was not the intention of the Government to abandon the Tawa Flat railway construction was given by the Prime Minister (Mr G. W. Forbes) when rejecting a suggestion by Mr H. E. Holland. Leader of the Labour Party, that the present dispute should be referred to the Arbitration Court. “ Unless we can conserve to the utmost the funds we have we will have an army of unemployed and that will be disastrous,” said the Prime Minister in indicating that even if the independent tribunal suggested increased the rates of pay the Government would not be able to pay them. Mr Forbes said he. had informed a deputation representing the tunnellers that the wages offered by the Government would, according to the engineers, enable from 18s 6d to 23s 8d a day to be earned and that was the utmost that could be offered. To provide additional rates would involve the dismissal of men on public works, and he would not stand for that policy. It was only by the greatest care that the Public Works fund could be made to keep employed men engaged -at the present time.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 61
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204WORK TO BE CONTINUED Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 61
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