TAKEN IN AND DONE FOR !
Apropos of the Waibi strike al Waikino, except the pickets, is laughing at an incident that occurred there the other night. Two typical sundowners, with swag and billy, “blew in” from somewhere over the hills. They expressed themselves (alter the manner of their kind) as being anxious to get a job, but were obviously (also after the manner of their kind) inwardly terrified at the possibility of finding one. They were seized upon by the enthusiastic strike pickets, fed and lodged, and hospitably treated, and were given a sovereign to ensure their conversion to the principle of industrial solidarity. On Friday morning the sergeant of police in charge at Waikino asked them it they had work, and being answered in the negative, invited them to take their departure. They did so, joyfully, and there is mute than reasonable suspicion that their references would not bear too minute examination. Waikino offers a fertile field just now for the dead-beat who knows the way of the strike pickets.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1005, 5 October 1912, Page 3
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171TAKEN IN AND DONE FOR ! Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1005, 5 October 1912, Page 3
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