AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
TROUBLE AT PORT AUGUSTA. 1 Melbourne, Aug. l!». The Federal Minister for Railways (Mr. Watt) said to-day he had received a telegram from the supervising engineer on the-eastern section of the Kast-VVest railway, stating that 350 men had left the railhead in South Australia, and had arrived at Port Augusta this morning. "These, men," said Mr. Watt, "having struck, are now dismissed from the service, and they will not be re-employed by the Commonwealth." The Minister docs not expect to hear for about ten days or a fortnight whether the supervising engineer has been successful in replacing the strikers at the railhead." If men cannot be secured to take their j,laces, Mr. Watt intends to close down the line.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19170907.2.42
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1917, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
121AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1917, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in