OTAGO HARBOUR BOARD.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir.—ln recent years old and faithful servants, on reaching retiring age, have deftly been awarded the “ order of the boot ” by the board on the recommentation of the engineer, his argument for so doing, being on the grounds of economy, a just, but convenient one. Now, by the same economical engineer a superannuated railway servant, drawing possibly £4 a week, is employed at an additional £4 a week to lay down a, few paltry chains of railway line on to the Victoria wharf. This ex-railway emEloyee also brings an assistant with im. Does the board not possess a workman capable of carrying out this work? Surely there are scores of competent men on the unemployed list who would be only too willing to get a few more shillings to supplement their meagre unemployment earnings and who could carry out this work. It is quite understood that this laying of the railway line is subject to the inspection of, the railway engineer or his deputy, which would only take a few hours when this work is completed. — I am, etc.," Unemployed. P.S.—I did not think that Messrs Copland, Munro, Campbell, and Scollay. members of the board, would be party to a public body employing superannuated men. September 26.
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Evening Star, Issue 22145, 27 September 1935, Page 8
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213OTAGO HARBOUR BOARD. Evening Star, Issue 22145, 27 September 1935, Page 8
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