Railway Picnic
Dear Sir. —lt is interesting to learn from “ Hook, Line and Sinker" that the Railway Department has nothing to do with the railway employees* picnic— apparently the employees just help themselves to the trains when they want them. Th, butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker all invite the common public to their picnics, and at the same price as they pay themselves. _ It might interest “ One Who Knows ” to learn that we were invited by relatives and friends to join the picnic and had no intention of '* butting in.” The railway employees are not the only ones who have to work day and night, and when they take on these jobs they know what they have to put up with. A man on the railway earning only £3 4s after ten years' service is probably only getting what he is worth, and if he was working for a bed would probably have to sleep out. Here's hoping for a fine day next Sunday for the select " insiders."—l am, etc NOT CLANNISH.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20232, 16 February 1934, Page 6
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174Railway Picnic Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20232, 16 February 1934, Page 6
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