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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17625, 30 November 1922, Page 3

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"My old man earns a little at breaking stones," was what an elderly woman said at the relief meeting at Auckland, ''but he cannot work many hours a day, and is getting slow at his work." - "There is one good thing," said the chairman, "and that is that he can just do what he feels he is able to do, for, after all, that is better than tho old system at Home, where men had to break so many stones or chop so much wood before they could have their porridge in the morning. It was agreed that creaking stones these hot daj's was not suitable work for a man well over sixty years of age, yet he was doing it pleasantly, with the idea of earning a "few shillings to help to keep the house going,- ai/d deserved tho highest commendation. A striking example of what is known as "hard luck" was furnished by a olefendarit in a maintenance case at tho Auckland Magistrate's Court. Within p3ri(xl of a year this man has ill three weeks with acute gastritis, seven weeks with fractured libs, tkreo weeks with, smashed toe. and three months with, pneumonia and complications. lie was seme. £O3 in arrenrs of payments, but only recommenced work after his la>st illncsfl last month. Now he was unable to obtain much employment owing to the shipping trouble. The case was adjourned for three months. "The horse-drawn express," said the necretary of the New Plymouth Carriers' Association, in reply to a question by a "Herald" representative, "has been a steadily diminishing quantity for some years. Three years ago til!- first motor-lorry came on the stand; prior to that time there were 21 vehicles, all liorse-drawn. To-day j there are seventeen motor-lorries and I only ten horse expresses, with a pros- I pect of a still further reduction in the near future."

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