PUBLIC WORKS MEN
HANDSOME RESPONSE TO RECRUITING CALL [Per United Press Association.] "WESTROUT, February 11. Mr A. 6. Park, the senior engineer in Westport of the Public Works Department;, at a farewell gathering to seven of the department’s employees who will leave on Wednesday to join the Railway Survey and Construction Company, stated that in some quarters the statement of the Minister of Public Works (Mr Semple) that a fine response had been made by the men of the Public Works Department had been belittled, but that the response in this district alone showed the truth of the assertion. Of the total number of recruits for all the forces that had left the Puller district for service overseas, said Mr Park, 40 per cent, had been public works employees. The actual numbers were 1152 accepted for service, of whom 53 were department men.
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Evening Star, Issue 23498, 12 February 1940, Page 3
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