USING THE DRIPS?

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1942, Page 8

USING THE DRIPS?

Filling Square Riggers

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, This Day. "Reports have reached members cf the committee of the practice of some licensees of collecting drips from beer pumps in receptacles, and towards the end of the day using the accumulated beer in filling square riggers for sale," said Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., at the quarterly meeting of the Licensing Committee. "Although waste is to be deplored, this is not fair salesmanship. If a case is proved against a licensee, the committee will consider he is not conducting his business in a proper manner."

for more money, but when a farmer working all hours and days (Sundays included) wanted to send his wheal to the miller, only by a great concession were a few sacks accepted on a Saturday afternoon. The 40-hour week stopped that sort of thing. Or, if a farmer's machinery broke down on a Friday night, it might not be repaired till Tuesday morning because overtime work was too expensive to pay for outside the 40-hour week. While the farmer wanted labour, the Placement Office was broadcasting appeals, giving the conditions of employment, for forestry workers. Farmers were placed at a disadvantage by all this. Could not the 40-hour week be waived? Could not forestry work wait a while, and, above all. could not wheatgrowing be declared an essentia] industry?

The discussion ended when a resolution was adopted that farm machinery experts and servicemen be classified as essential key men. Members said they wanted the resolution to imply that the industry be treated as essential.