"TWO MEN TO A BAG.”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15542, 10 June 1921, Page 3

"TWO MEN TO A BAG.”

A WHARF EPISODE. The Wellington Dominion stales:—lt was a treat to see'a man at work. With fine regularity he picked up a hag of cement, first with the right hand and then with the left. It was fine to sg the ripple of his great muscles as they took the strain, for hags ol cement are not Irifles in weight. He had probable heaved a dozen hags int > > his motor lorry in this fashion, and was bothering his head about nothing except h’s work, when one of the watersiders sidled up to him, and said, "1 wo men to a bag, mate!”

He look no notice of the remark, hut simply grabbed another bug and threw it on the floor of the lorry. Jhe other went away, had a word with some other men, and then came had:. By this time the worker had mounted on his lorry and was busv stacking the bags fit' had' so industriously thrown up. The advocate of less work and more pa' scrambled up into the lorry, and said, with a little more truculence, in his tone. “Two men to a hag, mate! Do you gel me?” The speaker got in the way ol the worker, and without a word the man of muscle took the apostle of two men to a hag under the arm pits, and dropped him over the side of the lorry. The incident might, have ended there, had not the side of the lorry over which the man was drooped been dose to the edge of the wharf, and when he dropped it was plump into the harbor. His mates dragged him out of the water, as the man on tlie lorry continued with lrs work unmoved by tlie episode, beyond a casual statement to anyone who might be interested that jf he wished to dictate how Vie should do his work he could step up on the vehicle. There were no acceptors. That driver is now left to do his cargo-lifting in the wav that pleases him best.