DRURY.
f WHEN WAGES WERE HIGH. A few issues ago I noticed that Nihil Nameless had a rhapsody on the virtues of Drury as a place in which to live in splendid peace. Occasionally, however, at the Road Board meetings it appears that public funds are strained by the high wages that have to be paid for workmen. But we may still regard ourselves as having nothing particularly bsd to grumble about, as witness the fullowing paragraph from an Auckland paper of fifty jears ag> yesterday:—"Seeing amoke arising from several uf the whares at the Drury coal mines I went over there this morning, and saw about 20 men, who had arrived a few hours previously, busily engaged in making preparations to commence work to-morrow. The road men out on strike have this day returned to work on the old terms, viz., 70s a day, wet or dry."
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 164, 23 January 1914, Page 3
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148DRURY. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 164, 23 January 1914, Page 3
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