SIZE OF CORN SACKS.
The Canterbury Trades and Labour Council have passed the following resolution:—"That the Government be urged to. immediately put into force the regulation relating to the reduction of the size of corn sacks, and that this Executive deplores the fact that this most serious matter has been neglected, while the lives of working men are being sacrificed. The Council intends to urge the matter upon the serious attention of the Legislature, and they v hope by their action to see the wrong removed." In connection with the matter, Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., mentioned to a Wairarapa Age reporter that in the Masterton Hospital, at the present time, there is a man who for the last two years has been to a great extent \bed-ridden and utterly unable to do any work owing to the way in, which his spine was injured while stacking 2401b sacks of wheat in a grain store. Complaints of the injury done r to a number of working men in this direction, said Mr Hogg, have frequently been made, and the Government is likely to be urged to take effective steps to have this evil remedied.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8327, 8 January 1907, Page 7
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194SIZE OF CORN SACKS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8327, 8 January 1907, Page 7
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