TOO MUCH AND NOT ENOUGH
Two recent items of news make one pause and think of our serious position in the Pacific. First, and I judge most important, is the scandalous item that beer (both food and drink to the army) is being sold in New Caledonia at 6/4 a reputed quart bottle. How, I ask, is the poor soldier to sustain life on his army pay? The second item is also serious, though, perhaps, less , important to the public weal. Boys of 16 and thereabouts wish to leave essential jobs at up to £6 weekly for better pay, and a hard-hearted manpower industrial committee refuses, notwithstanding medical evidence in. support. Is not this the way to kill ambition in our youth, besides drying up the source of recruits to the waterside union? These two incidents stand out starkly in our rough island story, and nothing short or a Royal Commission will satisfy the public. U.W.W.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 37, 13 February 1943, Page 4
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