WORKERS; WAGES
“PUB” OR SAVINGS BANK? SUGGESTION TO MINISTER (From Our Resident Correspondent .) WELLINGTON, To-day. Just how rar men are capable off looking after their own money was raised to-day when Mr. McQuilkin, of Auckland, while advancing the claims of a deputation of public works men. asked that in construction works camps a pay clerk should be appointed to take the men's money to bank, because if it were left to the men themselves they would “get stuck in the pub" and put the money into someone else's bank but their own. Mr. Bennett, under-secretary for public works: A pay clerk might do that. Mr. McQuilkin: No. we have more faith in your men than that. Mr. Bennett: They are not all honest, you know. Mr. McQuilkin: We are willing to give them a trial. The Hon. K. S. Williams, Minister of Public Works, said one case had happened in which a pay clerk had appropriated some of the men's money. Mr. Bennett: We had a special mail bag at one stage and this gave satisfaction to the men. Mr. A. Cook, General Secretary of the Workers’ Union: 1 prefer to look after my own money. Mr. McQuilkin: Well, some men start out for the post office and they get to the hotel and that is the end of it. The Minister: They go there to -t the cheque changed. (Laughter.)
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 13, 6 April 1927, Page 11
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