Nassella Grubbing
Sir, —As one of the unemployed engaged to grub nassella tussock who failed to arrive at the camp, may I be allowed to enlighten the board and the Labour Department? It is the gambling instinct in us that prevents us from going. We toss up between spending the major part of one week’s benefit of
812-odd on a pair of boots—some of us are not outdoor types and have never possessed such things—and being free for a few more days to apply for that position which may come up. It is a question of “Abandon hope all ye who enter here.” Try us again in a few weeks when we may be starved into submission. We just may be able to buy a pair of boots on credit and thankful to rough it in the backblocks in return
for $5O a fortnight.—Yours, etc.,
ONE OF THEM. August 31, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31774, 3 September 1968, Page 14
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