A MAN OF IRON NERVE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 8, 29 January 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

A MAN OF IRON NERVE.

It is usual to ask a man, when he presents himself as an applicant for a situation, what lie l<nows of ihe work; and in some cases, when a man replies to that query that he knows all, some test is made to prove whether he does or not. But in a recent instance in Canada, perhaps because it occurred to none of the employing parties that any man would have "the gall" to offer himself for such a position unless he really knew something of the work, it was merely taken for granted I hat he was conversant with the work. So he was appointed. Once clear of the town, away among the workers, his plan of campaign was simply to ride from camp to camp along the route, watch the men at work at one place, ride on and halt to watch the men at work at another, making a kind of patrol of the line of labour.

But sometimes it happened that one of the workers would ask him how to do such-and-such a thing. When that happened this novice of a foreman said: —■ "Do you mean to tell me that you hire on to do the job and have to come and ask me how it is done? Yoii call yourself a carpenter!"

Then he would write an order for the ignoramus to be paid off by the clerk at the office, and send a note to the clerk to obtain another man—a carpenter who knew his work! Thus within a week or two did this foreman have the pic!, of experienced men in his gangs, and himself gathered sufficient knowledge to be able to offer his services as foreman to any other good company that was looking for a good man to superintend such operations.

A Note to Austria—Servia Right! ♦»» ' *

Ocriii'iTi time hns been instituted it-i Pms<-i'ls in-t ad of the Greenwich time hii-horln p-i'fl. This moans putting tlio hand--; of the clock hack throe weeks.

Why can't the German Fonoror tho Russian hear? Hocaiiso ho cowls, "Potsdam tli ( . Ka-er!"

Our Navy's motto: Won't we jrive 'cm pucli a ltlowini! up! "Iwkhnrt's sov?n elephnnts'' wh'Vt were on a tour in France have br-'ii ! ; o : zi d bv (lie French Government, and nro doing the work of m'x horses oaeh. The horses are paid to b: very annoyed about it, and threaten to kick.

Kniser is renorted to hive nenl all his Kntrlish uniforms to the Km.!? at Biickincrnni Palace. His provinces nro coming lat<'r.