Of the 400,000 men employed in American shipyards nearly 80 per cent, knew nothing about shipbuilding a year ago. The Detroit. United Railway Company is operating all street, cars in Detroit by women conductors, owing to the shortage of men. The company's proposal was submitted to the men of the local carmen's union. Tho union was not opposed to the measure unless it was used as a moans of displacing men in tho service "in an unfair way." The W'aihi Daily Telegraph has called attention to the fact that fruiterers there were charging 5s per dozen for lemons, while the growers at Katikati (a few miles away) were selling them at lOd per dozen. "I think I've got the 'what-you-call-it' " said a caller at the Pungarehu Hospital on Wednesday. The man was examined by the medical assistant and his case diagoniscd as "whiskyitis," an<l advice given to go to bed and have a good sleep, the result of which would be that an improvement would be noticeable in tho mornio» t
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 3647, 2 December 1918, Page 2
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