THE USE OF LEISURE TIME
TO THE EDITOR Sir, —Please .ell me, through your paper, if it is against the rules for a man to do odd jobs of farm work, such as helping v/ith harvest and turnip-thinning, during his holidays from public works at Christmas and New Year. The reason I ask this question is that there arc a few men on these jobs who go out working, while, if another man with a family is offered a day's work during the holidays, he is told that he will be reported. Why is one man let off and not another?— I am. etc.. Interested. November 16. „ [ln a free country a man may employ his leisure time in any way that is lawful. People in New Zealand are being regimented to such an extent that the Dominion is losing, if it has not already lost, the reputation of being a free country; but, as the Minister of Public Works has, like other members of the Government, been emphasising the need of increasing production. it is not to be imagined that he would object to a Public Works employee helping in the performance of necessary farm work during the holiday period. The conditions under which Public Works employees are to receive holidays during the Christmas and New Year season contain no injunction against the acceptance of work at this period.—Ed., O.D.T.]
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23970, 20 November 1939, Page 6
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