"BOYS WILL NOT WORK"
MANY APPLICATIONS
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evtnlni Past")
AUCKLAND, This Day.
One huuclrod and- forty-five applies* tions.wero received for the position of cadet in the office of the Auckland Harbour Board. It was decided' at yesterday'a mooting to reduce the number' to six and depute a committee; of thre« to make the final seloctiori.
Tho fear that the staff was boing made: too largo was expressed by Mr; Campbell Jcbnstone. With tho innovation of moro -efficient methods, ho thought, it should bo possiblo to do without' furthor increases in tho number. : ; . ?
The secretary, Mr. H. B. Burnett; explained that the vacancy arose through. a resignation. .■■•.:■ . ;; A' "Boys will not work to-day," declared Mr. Johnstone. "I could place one hundred.boys on tho land this week, but they do not want to dirty their hands.'' '••..-. .- . ' -
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 41, 20 February 1929, Page 8
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