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"Would-be Worker" writes: "For the past fortnight I have been applying for positions and have received only two replies. In both these v cases I was promised advice as to whether I was successful or not, but I am still awaiting this advice. Would it not be possible for employers to do as they promise and save us, who are anxiously trying .to find work, unnecessary suspense? It is amazing (writes D.L.8.) that there are ratepayers in Wellington whose properties border a mam road and who have no footpath on which to walk. Such is the condition of Famham Street. Perhaps-it js necessary to qualify this statement. We have a .'footpath, but the condition is such that it is better to walk on the road, although the road is also unsealed. Ihe screenings on the footpath are so sharp that they cut through the soles oi shoes, v/ile in wet weather it is practically impossible to walk up or down the street without getting the shoes wet through. The Government is having a road safety campaign and yet here the pedestrians are forced to walk on the road for the sake of comfort. ■ . ' " c
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 8
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197POINTS FROM LETTERS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 8
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