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NZ Truth, Issue 131, 21 December 1907, Page 6

A man charged at Wellington -with using obscene language, pleaded that there were no ladies present at the time. Men are seasoned cusses, and don't matter. With the change m status of, Boss Ferguson, of Wellington Harbour Board, the, employees arc wondering if there will be any amendment of the stringent regulations .which are just severe enough to make the service unpopular. No emplovep m ,the Board's service is permitted- to engage m any speculation outside of his own work, which is a most disastrous spec' for most of 'em. His wife can't take m a lodger to help satisfy the extortionate landlord, and however satisfactory this may be from a moral point of view, it is a marked disability m a centre where half the population live by boarding the other half. Also any employee isn't allowed to he seen within a thousand miles of any political, or even semi-political, movement, organisation, or thing, and the unwilling slave is thus deprived of his rights as a citizen. He can't smoke during working hours, but strangely enough there is no regulation compelling him to dye his mo. to match his glorious uniform. The Harbour Board employee isn't able to call his soul bis own, and as Fprgic was probably the author of the regulations, he hopes io now regain possession of that spiritual part of him which thc parsons ..rave about.