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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17608, 10 November 1922, Page 2

"The usual thing—robbery," is the remark made by people when they receive a plumber's account when an item for dirt money appears in it, according to a s witness in the Arbitration Court in Auckland (says the "Star"). He sa ; d it was impossible to camouflage the item, and although the plumbers referred customers to the clause in the award it appeared that the trade would never lose its bad name. "It is only a matter of a few years when the plumbing trade will die out for want of apprentices," declared another witness, who advocated a larger proportion of apprentices to journeymen than at present was allowed.