Recently -at Palmerston North the Mayor and several of the councillors were inspecting some work, when one of the labourers was observed to be idling his time away. He was said (relates the “Manawatu Standard”) to have thus wasted 15 minutes,, during which he smoked a cigarette. Late’" the Mayor instructed the engineer to suspend the employee. The matter wa c ventilated in a council meeting, and some opposed and others endorsed the Mayor, who subsequently moved that the man be reinstated, the mover considering that the labourer had been sufficiently punished. Some pressed for an apology from the worker for writing in allegedly insulting letter to the Mayor, but the latter said he did not want such a thing. The man was reinstated.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4578, 22 June 1923, Page 3
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