Dismissed For Loafing
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CHRISTCHURCH. This Day
A report that 12 men in a gang working on clearing a reserve had been summarily dismissed for loafing was adopted by the Waimakariri River Trust at its meeting yesterday.
The trust engineer, Mr H. W. Harris, supplementing the report, told the meeting that the men were “on their backs down in a hollow” when he found them.
In contrast to this paragraph in the report was another praising the successful work, efficiency and conduct of a group of young men who had completed a difficult job very well.
It w.as decided to write to the Placement Office praising the work the men had done.
Their efficiency drew from Mr Dixon the comment; “These are the men who should be working on farms.”
“They would be if you paid them enough,” retorted Mr C. Morgan Williams, M.P.
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Northern Advocate, 15 December 1938, Page 4
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