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NZ Truth, Issue 84, 26 January 1907, Page 5

The seismograph is not infallible. None of the Australian instruments mentioned . the Jamaica tremblor.

At least one Wellington , restaurar teur has started to boycott waitresses who join the Union, by, when they leave and give his. name. to other intending employers as a reference, telling the said employers that the girls are incompetent ; N though m one recent instance a waitress had been slaving for him for twelve months and had. a little while before, when intending to leave, been begged t 0 reconsider her intention, and stay on. If this man offends further m this atrocious fashion bis name and address will be published for the information of Wellington teaists. Indeed, if space permits next week, it is likely to be so published anyhow.

We hear a lot of bunkum about the delicate purity of the. handling and packing of New Zealand canned meats, but there is much cause to fear that things are not what they seem. At any rate, at the Gear Meat Co.'s manure works, at Petone, maggots are showering down on the workers from the floor overhead where the ears of the defunct animals are stored, and a man who felt it unsafe to health to put up with this was laughed at and his pay refused when he thereupon threw up his job. Also there are complaints of the horrible stench created by the insufficient boiling of the viscera for manure, and it behoves the management to see to the removal of these very objectionable features.