ARMISTICE DAY
Complaint About Driver’s Lack of Respect “1914-18,” writing indignantly to “The Dominion” recently complained of lack of respect on the part of a City Corporation dustman during the two minutes’ silence on Armistice Day. This matter was taken up at once by the officers of the city engineer’s department. Five refuse collectors were lined up, the letter was read out to I hem, and the man at fault was asked to step out. Without any hesitation one of the men admitted quite frankly that I'o was the driver at fault, but said he had acted in complete ignorance. It was true that a man had hailed him as he passed the wharf, but he did not understand his gesture. Indeed a little further along an express passed him, and he called out to the driver, imagining that it must have been he who was wanted at the wharf. He was stopped by a traffic inspector near the fire station, but it was not until he heard the gun that he remembered that it was Armistice Day. The offender, who expressed contrition. is a man who has been 23 years in the service of the City Corporation and has never bad a black mark i against him. He was only one of several drivers who, busy about their work, failed to remember the significance of 1 the day and the two minutes’ silence
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 47, 19 November 1936, Page 9
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234ARMISTICE DAY Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 47, 19 November 1936, Page 9
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