PUBLIC SERVICE TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS
Sir, —I will trouble you no further beyond present letter on this matter. I thank you for consideration, but you forget that there is a fixed wage for heavy labour. A man not accustomed to hard work will receive no consideration from ani employer, because the professional navvy will drop down to his level or there will be trouble. "Where there's a will, there's a way," does not always hold. Thero may bo plenty of work, but a professional man out of his groovo may be worthless at it, be he ever so willing. You are not the only one guilty of educated ignorance; as Ruskin puts it, in this connection. I think I am entitled to this publication, as you have endeavoured to ridicule my contention.—l am, etc., J.J.F.
[What we "ridiculed" was tho idea that a man who did not get a Government billet in New Zealand must starve.]
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 64, 8 December 1917, Page 6
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155PUBLIC SERVICE TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 64, 8 December 1917, Page 6
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