MAGNET OF HIGH WAGES
Employers in ' Auckland complain of valuable hours lost owing to employees absenting themselves, on the pretext of illness, from their regular jobs and working on the wharves or on other highly-paid piecework occupations. There are many also who, unable to resist the temptation for bigger wages, take jobs by the .hour, generally at night, and are not in a fit physical state to do their permanent work properly. Some employers have noticed a considerable decline in production output, slovenliness, quarrelling, and ineptitude. . /
Shirley Staples, 8, 18 Brook Street, Lower Hutt, received head injuries and concussion when she fell from a cycle near her home yesterday afternoon. She was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance, and her condition today was reported-to,be .satisfactory. ;. ; ..'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 55, 2 September 1943, Page 6
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126MAGNET OF HIGH WAGES Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 55, 2 September 1943, Page 6
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