WESTPORT RECRUITS
MAJORITY FROM PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT By Telegraph— Press Association WESTPORT, January 11 Mr A. G. Park, senior engineer at Westport of the Public Works Department. at a gathering to bid farewell to seven of the department’s employees who will leave on Wednesday to join the Railway Survey and Construction Company, said that in some quarters the statement of the Minister of Public Works that a fine response had been made by men of the Public Works Department had been belittled, but the response in this district alone showed the truth of the assertion of the total number of recruits for all the forces that had left the Buller district for service overseas, 40 per cent, of them had been public works employees. Tire actual numbers were 132 accepted for service, of whom 53 were employees of the Department.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THD19400212.2.38
Bibliographic details
Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21576, 12 February 1940, Page 6
Word Count
140WESTPORT RECRUITS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21576, 12 February 1940, Page 6
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Timaru Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.