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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1941, Page 6

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I DISPUTE OVER SUNDAY WORK IN AUCKLAND i CHAMBER HANDS DISMISSED. NEW LABOUR ENGAGED. i ‘By Telegraph—Press /Association.) AUCKLAND This Day. Following on the dismissal yesterday afternoon of 140 chamber hands, ow- ■ ing to a dispute regarding Sunday ' work, new labour was called this i morning by the Auckland Farmers' , Freezing Company and sufficient men i were engaged to ensure work over the weekend at the Export Wharf and the King's Wharf. In response to an advertisement in the daily newspapers for men prepared to accept employment as chamber hands, over 120 men had been engaged by 11.30 this morning and more probably will be engaged this afternoon. up to a total of 140. Included in the men engaged are some regular chamber hands, who indicated yesterday that they did not want to! cease work.

TOWNS DESTROYED DEVASTATION IN NORMANDY. ; — SOME PLACES WIPED-OUT. A detailed account <.( h g-penings i and conditions m Normandy anti the i coastal areas of France Ims been given me by a prominent American, | well known m European and Wash- i ingtnn social and diplomatic circles, ! who has just arrived at Lisbon from ; occupied France, writes the Lisbon ' correspondent of the "Daily Tele-' graph " The few people left in the .Normandy villages, states my informant, live ,i hand-to-mouth existence m , silent sullenness The Germans had j machine-gunned and killed many' pimp!-' m one village he visited. The bodies were carried through i tne streets t>> tilt' local cemetery fori uu.s.ii on army !=•:>.• Yet two'days; Mlci with tlu-ii slr.mgt- psychology. ! '.lie Germans plastered the village with large illustrated posters depict-

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