MR. SPEAKER, LABOURER
A NATIONAL SERVICE INCIDENT. The British House of Commons recently heard with a shout of laughter the hots that Mr. Speaker had received a notice to "transfer to new employment as a labourer at Wolverhampton at 4s. lOd. rt dav,< ss. a week war bonus, Saturday ana Sunday H.D. is. 10d.," on tho ground that "such employment is of greater national impoitance than that on which he is engaged." While "Mr. Speaker" smiled, the blush--' in;? Mr. Cecil Beck explained for the Ministry of National Service that it was all the ,result of a "regrettable clerical, error." . "Ah-h-h !" cried members in long-drawn merriment. A callihg-up notice, intended, continued Mr. Beck, for F. C. Culpeck, er'o gardener at Campsea, A6he, Suffolk, was addressed to Mr. Speaker by a local officer of the National Service Department." Culpeck had volunteered for National Service and it was proposed to transfer him to a steel and iron works at Wolverhampton.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3180, 3 September 1917, Page 6
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