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Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17762, 9 December 1929, Page 5

One of the worst examples of petty economy! that can he cited was recently placed before the Canterbury branch committee of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants by a member who was delegated to represent the case (says the New Zealand Railway Review). It appears that a work train was completing a job in the district, and the ganger advised the “banjo swingers” that they were being paid off on a certain date, but if they liked to proceed to another locality for the week following that they could be reengaged. The huts and equipment the men had been using for a lengthy period had been forwarded to the new destination, and the men knew that their services would be required to carry on the good work, but thej are first dismissed, so that they have to pay their fares and make a fresh start, though they have been in the service for lenethv periods. It is alleged that the habit occurs usually before the Christmas holidays.