HORRORS OF PEACE.
While "State Housing Worker" has some reason for his plaintive squawk over no pay for King's Birthday, he is miles out when he says "every other trade and calling have the day off on full pay." I've been toiling on and off for 30 years for building contractors — end am now—and haven't struck a Santa CI aus amongst them yet. They are hard and practical men and their slogan is "No work, no pay." One of them at Hobsonville a couple of winters ago called the gang under cover for three fiveminute hailstorms and docked all hands 15 minutes' pay. It cost me 23/ to have the day off to drink the King's health, but I console myself with the thought that I em a genuine patriot, it's so much easier and pleasanter on full par. , J. BEXFIELD.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 282, 27 November 1940, Page 6
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