A FAST WORKER.

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20075, 2 August 1937, Page 4

A FAST WORKER.

SPEED IN DRAIN CLEANING.

EMPLOYER SUBPEISED. An incident that happened at Masterton proves that it is unwise to gencralise regarding a man's industrial ability. An elderly man who did not appear to be in the best of health enrolled at the Placement Office as a general labourer, and stated that ho would like a draining job. A few days later a farmer asked for a man to clean a drain, stating that the work would take at least two days.

The veteran was sent to do the work, arriving on the scene just after lunch. He completed the job before dark, and complained to the farmer that his expected two days' work had fizzled out.

The farmer was incredulous that the drain had been cleaned in such a short time, but an inspection convinced him that the job had been carried out in a workmanlike manner. "It beats me," he declared, "how you did it, but I'll find other work to make up the two days."