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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 74, 6 March 1931, Page 8

A Foreman's Error. The comedy of a foreman who mistook a householder for one of his road relief gang was enacted on one of the hill suburbs of Dunedin the other day, says the Otago Daily Times. The weather was hot and the foreman had to keep a wary eye on his men to see that the pace did not slacken. Suddenly he espied one man leaning nonchalantly against a hedge, his wheelbarrow ,beside him. With the light of battle in his eye he proceeded to address the indolent one in a feww well-chosen words. "Oh, that's all right," said the man with an airy wave of his hand, "I'm not taking orders from you." The foreman grew apoplectic and the indolent one continued: "As a matter of fact," he said, "my father used to do your father many a good turn when your father worked on the roads.y Just when it seemed that the foreman had reached the height of is endurance the householder similingly explained he was not a relief worker, but was just doing a little work in his own front garden.