RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION
THE DARGAVILLE LINE
MEN GIVEN. NOTICE (By Telegraph—Press Association) DARGAVILLE, This Day. Men engaged on the railway construction work in the final section of the Tan-'gowahine-Dargaville line, of which all but about- one and a-half miles are nearly complete, were given a week’s notice this morning when they resumed after. the Christmas vacation yesterday, and as far ■ifj can be ascertained they have not 'been offered work elsewhere. The number of men affected is upwards of 160. mostly married. A public meeting will be held on Monday to consider what action should be taken in connection with tho closing. Much indignation is expressed in the 'district as it is contended that under a month’s work would have given another five and a-half miles completed railway tmd brought the terminus within one find a half miles of Dargaville. Hope is "still expressed that owing to the fact that the work is near completion it may be resumed after 51st March.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 8 January 1931, Page 5
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161RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 8 January 1931, Page 5
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