TIME TEST

Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1940, Page 3

TIME TEST

NO. 13 WORKERS UNSATISFACTORY.

AIR SEMPLE SHIFTS SPOIL

(Pei Press 'Association—Copyright;

WELLINGTON, Match 18

Stripped to his singlet, Mini. R. Semple worked at the Bunvbtiu golf course this ’ afternoon with *a ,<J longhandled "shovel and a whciilbarrow, on a tinie test, to shift a tity, of light soil. It was repoiibJ that this quantity had taken two'men’a full day to Handle. ;,:t/

Although the. Minister had done' no manual work for years, ( Jh.e 1 the spoil in exactly ten |Fbr ill his 67 years, and his Jij'pk^pL•r.eceht Experience between the sbaff# ,of tlie barrow—-which he lias ypgdemned as a relie—My Semple made faii;ly easy, work of his self-imposed jobs'” “I prefer to see for myself how a job can be done,” he explained. “I never' ask another man to do a j«ob for me if it is sticky and 1 can pot do it myself.” •

Having been asked by HOll. P. C. Webb, who is detained'in Wellington On waterfront business, to investigate complaints (of unsatisfactory wdfk by No. 13 Scheme men on the Bunvood Golf Course, Mr Semple made an unannounced visit to the work this morning. The. complaints, which be investigated, were that the rate: of : piligress ivVas becoming progressively ■ dowCry"and that fifction : \vas ! fiifeded; To-Satisfy himself' that’ ftGWfd the ‘charges'bvere Welloba-iedfi MifVS'lih plari 1 paid'-'aWOtlreiy viffit'JtJ 'fh%<>£o&rs#bfti tires, 1 aft&h’ibonV’biufillA'l m'Crt 11 bad I '' g ino .• .Ifioiiflfe!’ ‘wfts’ drbSsed in a k'bak'i 1 : shiVt, ! flatfWef'trOtfsers, and old shoes, and he carried out his own test. What.his opinions were of the work at BurwoOd, Air Semple would not say publicly to-day. All lie would say /was that his .investigation had led him to believe that the job was costing far too much; and that the work of the meh was definitely un- 1 satisfactory. n “I was hot busted when T shifted : that six barrow loads in ten be added, “and’ I know I could 'keep that rate up ‘at a Chinese job-tfot all day.” ■ ' - • I( ' f *