CALLED "HACKS"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 293, 9 April 1941, Page 7

CALLED "HACKS"

TERM If OT APPRECIATED

CASUAL FACTORY EMPLOYERS Racing men can readily state what constitutes a hack—a galloper that has not Avon over £500' in stake money—the phrase was used in reference to a man at the No„ 2 Armed Forces Appeal Board sitting in Hamilton, and caused some discussion. Evidence was being given by Mr tj W. Y. Kirkman, factory superintendent for the New Zealand Go-opera-tive Dairy Company, Limited, regarding a chccse factory employee, •whose appeal was under review. Tbc man was, according to witness, classed as an assistant. w Mr J. W. Neate (deputy member of the board): "In uther words, he is a 'hack.'" Witness: "I don't like that word; It may be used in Taranald, but Tve don't use it in reference to our employees." Mr Neate said it was a common term in cheese factories, where it "was usual for the manager to emseveral "hacks" during the .'"PrmsU'st part of the season, dismiss4Continued at fODt of next column)

ing them as the supply of milk to the factory diminished. The firs: "hack" would be kept employed longest, the second'"hack" next and so on, The term was not used in a derogatory sense, but merely to classify the men who were casual employees.