PAINTER'S COMPLAINT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 May 1932, Page 5

PAINTER'S COMPLAINT.

# * (To the Editor,) Sir, —In response to ‘‘Painter’s Complaint” in Saturday’s paper about outside firm doing roofs of business firms and also statement by your local complaining painter that he could do work cheaper. It is five and a half years since we were working in Masterton last and also have for years been doing the main business premises, freezing works, factories and municipal buildings throughout New Zealand. Now your local painter has had 5§ years to interview local firms and give a price for this work. He has had good times and has been sitting down waiting for the work to be brought to him. Let him wake up and go and look for work. Has he gst any business . ability? We all know what a complainer is. We are employing local unemployed but not journeymen painters. We employ unskilled men that are not afraid to work but who get results for thenjakflves and us. In regard to r work bfl% done cheaper by local painters, Why have they not done so? Anyone can squeal and say they could do it cheaper after it is done. There are plenty of roofs to be done yet in I' Masterton, and why does he not hustle and get them done if, as he says, they ‘•can be done cheaper. Furthermore, the paint we use is made from tar bought from your local gasworks, and which we are using throughout the Wairarapa district and will be using further afield. Let your local complainer get some tar and put on the roofs cold, without benzine, kerosene or linseed oil and do work cheaper—l am, etc., ’ F. BUTLER.