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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5351, 7 February 1916, Page 6

A joke is occasionally—a his. very occasionally—manufactured by bor - ougli councillors. “What is u sheep dog?” asked one councillor at the meeting of the Hiccarton Borough Council recently apropos of a proposal to let sheep dogs “down lightly" in the matter of tax. “is it n dog that runs after sheep?" was the reply. “That’s mine, responded the curious one: “hut. he added sadly, “it got shot for it!” Complaints have been made, that the returned soldier is not looked after so well as the departing soldier is. •Speaking for the Wellington City Council, the Mayor says the utmost is being done to utilise the men n the Council’s various services. “We will give employment,” he said to a “Post” reporter, “to as n any as we can possibly absorb. We have already vacancies for one or two more.” Air Morton, city engineer and manager* of the tramways, said this was the case so far as his departments were concerned. The Mayor added that his experience had Ireon that the returned men were “not all ready to assimilate themselves to civil life. Anothet thing you can say, too,” lie went on, "is that some of the men are not qutite fair over this business. For instance, a man came to me yesterday stating he wanted a suit of clothes. I furnished him with an order for the clothes and lie had a .job to go to on Monday. Next I find lie was trying to get money, but there was no occasion for this. I will not allow any m«nv to get ‘stuck’; but you see the difficulties we are up against, and the public should take them into account.”