RELIEF WORK.

Evening Star, Issue 20061, 29 December 1928, Page 7

RELIEF WORK.

TO TUB EDITOB. Sir, —That respectable body of vicarious philanthropists operating in Dunedin under tile title of “ City Corporation ” has just surpassed its best previous efforts on behalf of the “ gentle grafter.” Four elderly gentlemen, armed with overcoats and picks, started a little after 8 o’clock this morning to attack the tufts of grass growing in and near .the channels in a street above the Octagon. By 9.30 a distance of about 60yds, equal to the work of one ordinary man, had been picked over and the grass made into nice little heaps, to be left until they are covered with a new crop of grass. To give rain and sunshine a show, this class of work had to be done on a wet morning, so that the grass roots would benclit and get going again without any delay. So far as an onlooker could judge, the slowness of the performance was caused by the debating tendencies of the wage-receiving old gentlemen, who seemed to understand (one can’t say to think) that they were not to be tried too severely at the game of picking out tufts of grass. Why put together more than one of these sturdy fellows at such a job?—l am, etc., December 29. J.M.