COBDEN QUARRY
(To the Editor.) Sir, —Allow me a little space to air the following: You hear people and the Press crying out about the unemployed. Well, Mr. Editor, if you took a walk over to the Cobden quarry you could see room for another half dozen men. It takes about ten or twelve men to keep the crane going in the railway quarry on the Grey side, yet in the Cobden quarry you find two men shovelling mullock and loading same, while the crane-driver sits in a seven-ton crane, burning fuel. Now, Mr. Editor, if that is not wasting the people’s money—two men trying to keep a seven-ton crane and driver going. I think it is time the quarry closed for the winter months if labour is that scarce. Or else that some of the gentlemen responsible wake up to the way things are working and alter same before any more money is wasted; I am, your etc.—■ IN WORK.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 June 1927, Page 12
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