KINDNESS OVERDONE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4779, 21 November 1924, Page 2

KINDNESS OVERDONE.

TOO MANY INVITATIONS. FARMER EMPLOYER’S COMPLAINT. At a meeting of the council of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce recently a letter was read from a farmer who liais in his employ a lad iirought out under the chamber’s plan for introducing public school boys from England. The fanner complained (states the “Herald”) that the lad’s work was being unduly interrupted by absence at dances and other social gatherings to which he was invited by friends in New Plymouth. The lad had been given leave on several occasions, but on the last occasion that he was given a day off he wired from town to say he was staying in for the night. This kind of tiling disorganised the work at the farm and could not be permitted. The letter was discussed at some length, general sympathy being expressed with the farmer’s point of view. It was recognised also that invitations were sent to these lacks wPh the best intentions in order to make colonial life away from their home associations as pleasant as possible. If, however, a little thought was given to the question it would be recognised that at this busy time of the years, particularly, a farmer could not fairly be expected to allow a lad time off except in very exceptional circumstances. In this particular case the fame- said he was not going to put any extra work on to his wife, who had quite enough to do, in order that the lad might attend dances in New Plymouth,