CASUAL WORK.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 7, 8 July 1909, Page 8

CASUAL WORK.

TO THE EDITOR. i Sir, — The coming three days' races of the Wellington Racing Club puts a side issue on the unemployed question. There are hundreds of first-class clerks and accountants out of employment at the present moment, who are trying to procure a day or twos casual employment. If they make application to^the W.R.C. on the tolalisator and gates, issuing tkkets and paying out, etc., the answer is '"full up." Now, as a surprise party, I would suggest that Dr. Newman (a real sport) and one or two officials of the Government departments, take a walk through the totalisator and gate boxes, and see if they could count on their fingers the number of their servants getting £150 to £250 per annum who, having received leave of absence (and thus receiving double pay), and are thus doing the capable unemployed men out of most acceptable three days' employment. Facts are chiels that winna ding. — I am, etc.; GEORGE.