GOVERNMENT TIMBER
BUSH AND MILL TO CLOSE PROTEST FROM RAETIHI (From Our Own Correspondent) RAETIHI, To-day. At a meeting held in Raetilii questions were asked Mr. Langstone, Labour candidate for Waimarino, regarding the proposed eloping of the Government bush at Erua and the mill at Frankton Junction. Mr. Laloli, in referring to the proposed closing of the bush, asked Mr. Langstone whether he thought the Government’s action was justified, considering that the closing down of the bush and the mill would throw about 500 men out of work and swell the already large list of unemployed. The Prime Minister had promised in March of last vear that when Erua was cut out Pctaka bush would be re-opened, but un lerstood it was not the intention of the Government, to commence work again it Potaka. at any rate, at present, lie. was informed that the housefactor c at Frankton would be closed in about a fortnight’s time. Mr. Langstone, m reply, said it was a most serious matter, and it was the duty of every local body and organisation to enter an emphatic protest. He supposed that in putting the men off. ?t P was a part of the wage-reducing scheme, as these men would have to, seek work at relief wages at 9s to 1-s a day. .
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 293, 2 March 1928, Page 1
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