NO WORK FOR SINGLE MEN
-— ' DECISION-OF A COUNTY COtTNCIL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, November 27. At the last meeting of the Raglan County Council, Councillor Campbell Johnstone, speaking on the subject of recruiting, said that he considered the time had come when no single men eligible to go to the\ front should be employed by- the ' council. The council should endorse tlie Government's aotion in this matter. Even if the dismissal of single men seriously affected county .work, which he did not think would be the case, the council should, in the present circumstances, bear tho brunt. . Councillor Otway seconded a motionto the above effect, proposed by the chairman, to come into force in - a month's time. Tho motion was carried unanimously. It was agreed that discrimination should bo exercised in cases where one or more, male members of a-family had enlisted; and it could be proved that the remaining single members were required to provide for dependents. It was decided that married men sßould, bo paid 2s. a day more than single men.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2631, 29 November 1915, Page 6
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174NO WORK FOR SINGLE MEN Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2631, 29 November 1915, Page 6
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