THE PICK AND SHOVEL MAN.
Sir, —I sec in Monday's Herald that in an address before the Canterbury Advertising Club last week tho Rev. D. Gardner Miller has challenged tho traditional view that the pick and shovel man who toils with his coat off and sleeves rolled up is tho hardest worker in the community. He &<aintained that the man burdened with the heaviest labour was the man who had to sit down and plan business schemes in his office. What about the thousands of pick and shovel workers in the country, who have to go out-back in road camps for 14s a day and then try to scrape together a meagre sum to send home to a wife and family ? Is not their burden with them night and clay also ? Is not the courage of some of these men astounding also.' Perhaps if the Rev. D. Gardner Miller were to take the place of one of those pick and shovel men with a family for six months or so lie would withdraw his challenge. RKEP "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20309, 17 July 1929, Page 14
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