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Sir,—John Odgers is a masterpiece at dodging the issue. My point was that Mr Gerard said that waggons instead of being taken to the Coast to shift timber and coal, should be sent to lift farmers’ wheat. No consideration for the remainder of the community. Mr Odgers tells a story of a waggon at Annat with a broken wheel. Then he tells us he has worked long years under Nationalist Government and taken the good and the bad. He worked on the money of free enterprise, the people that look for the big end of the stick every time —no thought for the other fellow. He says free enterprise clothed and fed him. That may be so, because in days past that constituted the remuneration for hired labour. He says that if people are worthy, virtue brings its own reward. Well, he appears to have been one of those people.—Yours, etc., G. E. WRIGHT. September 1, 1948. [This correspondence is now closed.— Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25589, 2 September 1948, Page 2
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