WAITOTARA COUNTY LORRIES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 204, 31 August 1935, Page 8

WAITOTARA COUNTY LORRIES

Sir, —‘•Another Ratepayer’’ wants to know who pays fur the cartage of wood he saw on a Waitotara bounty lorry on Saturday afternoon. .1 believe it is customary fur county lorry drivers, if they pay for the benzine, to have this privilege ami oven if he drove for an ordinary lurry-owner 1 think with few exceptions he would obtain this small concession. 1 would like to draw just two comparisons between the men the peopiu employ to keep the metal roads and the men employed on the railroads. If the railroad men are sent away from home they get an allowance. If the metal-road men are sent away from home and perhaps pay their board they get nothing. The railroad invu get a day off a month on full pay and a quarter-fare railway ticket it they require it, also time for travelling to work, and ordinary length work when not away from home. County workers start to work early and arc home sometimes late, with no reuognitioa whatever. .1 would like to ask a question: Arc the Waitotara County employees among the lowest paid in the New Zealand counties'.’ I think Ihe workers struggle for an existence for wife and family, and with unrcsiorcd cuts is enough without making a fuss about granting the use of a lorry sometimes to got firewood.--•‘RATEPAYER FARMER.”