RECRUITS FROM BULLER DISTRICT
40 Per Cent. From Public Works Department
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) <• WESTBORT February 11. At a farewell gathering for seven Public Works Department’s employees who will leave on Wednesday to form the Railway Survey and Construction Company, Mr. A. G. Park, senior engineer of the department in Westport, said that in some quarters the statement ol the Minister of Public Works that a tine response had been made by men of the department bad been belittled, but that the response in this district alone showed the truth of the assertion Of the total number of recruits for all the forces that had left the Buller district for service overseas 40 per cel’thad been Publie Works employees; 132 had been accepted for service, of whom 53 were P.W.D. men.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 118, 12 February 1940, Page 10
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