As showing tho strenuous work which engineers liavo to undertake at times, tho manager of a large engineering firm, in giving evidence in the Arbitration Court at Auckland, gave the following amounts as having been earned by some of his employee,? in a fort- „ night, £17, £11, £15, £9 10s.. £I], , £22, £11, £12, £11, £17, £17, £14, and £16. His Honour: "They must have worked a lot of overtime to.earn : that money." Witness: "Yes." His Honour: "A few fortnights liitc that : would bill a man." The witness ad- ■ , mitted that it was an exceptional '.period,'but stated that he had had t-o_ Work just as hard years ago, and did - not' receive anything like that remuneration. , How little of tho truth wo know As through .the crowded streets we go; i'or many a smiling face we seo May mask remorse or misery. But no ono yet has ever met A face where gloom its seal had set Because a cold oould-still endure, ' Opposed to Woods' Great Peppermint Cure—Advt.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2847, 11 August 1916, Page 6
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168Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2847, 11 August 1916, Page 6
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