WAR EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1941, Page 4

WAR EFFORT

CHEESE SUPPLIES & RAILWAY WORKERS. EIGHTY & FORTY HOUR WEEKS. “No ,section of the ' people in New Zealand, barring the soldiers, are doing as much for the war effort as the cheese factory suppliers.” said Mr J. G. Brechin, secretary of the Rexdale Cooperative Dairy Company, when giving evidence in the Masterton Courthouse yesterday during a sitting of the No. 2 Transport Licensing Authority. Mr Brechin proceeded to criticise the attitude taken up by the Railways Department in the case under discussion which involved the extra production of cheese for Britain. He alleged that the factory manager was sworn at by a railway official when the manager requested that railway trucks be supplied to transport cheese to Wellington at urgent notice. A strong protest against Mr Brechin’s comments was made by Mr F. Parkes, representative of the Railways Department. “It is not the case that cheese suppliers are doing more for the country than railway men,” he said. “From one end to the other of New Zealand railwaymen are doing as much as anyone else.”

Mr Skoglund requested that the cross-table argument should cease. “The railwaymen work a forty-hour week —the farmers eighty. I leave any further comment with you." observed Mr Brechin.