20 MIEN PUT OFF

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 148, 13 September 1927, Page 18

20 MIEN PUT OFF

RIMUTAKA DISPUTE STATEMENT FROM WELLINGTON Press Association. WELLINGTON, Mond ly. Regarding the Rimutaka trouble Mr. C. McKenzie, assistant-engineer o f the Public Works Department, said it was true 20 men had been dismissed. All of them were single, except two. There have beer police complaints with regard to the conduct at the camp allegedly due to drinking. Married men from the Tawa Flat undertaking were being sent to R: mutaka. Mi. McKenzie said he thought the statement attributed to the engineer regirding the putting oft of all single men would be found to lack confirmation. A message from Carterton yesterday stated tha. . 32 men had been put ofi the unemployed relief works at Rimutaka Hill Tli v trouble was said to have originated through an alleged attach by a ganger on a small man, who si bsequently refused to work under the ganger. After the dismissals only three men were left to look alter the camp.

Boys Throw Stones.—Several complaints ha. e been received from Manurewa lately re the placing of stones on the railway track, and the thi owing of stones at passing trains. Inquiries n ude by Constable Maloney of Papatoetoe, resulted in the appearance of three boys before the court. They were severely admonished and promised good behaviour in future. You were disappointed last year because yen., did not preserve sufllclient eggs with SHARLAND'S EGG PRESERVATIVE. Don’t make the same mistake a.s&ln, but put down more this season. 4