“0.0. W.” “Ilf you are an ‘0.0.w.’ the full meaning of the term is not to be found if. the mere* words, ‘out of work ’ ; not simply inaction, but long-drawn patience; and queues; and a different look in the eyes of your wife . . ; hut more—the thing-y'ou’d-love-to-do-with-your-life-if-you-could, the thing you were born and built to do, recedes further away than ever. ‘ Snatch at am- old job you can get and be thankful,’ T was told last week: ‘That’s what T ‘oiv.’ Do you realise, dear reader, that there are hundreds of lads of eighteen and nineteen who have been ‘ 0.0.w.’ ever since they left school at fourteen P Tine human energy, divinely planned to forward contributive purposes within the Purpose, and it is running to waste in these realms of ours. If you would waken in such an ‘o o.w.’ a new and keen zest, and help him to find his ‘station and its duties,’ von might feel like Socrates—almost a midwife at the birth of a soul.” — “ Peden,” in the “Inquirer.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1929, Page 8
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