NO MONEY FOR EASTER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3449, 31 March 1920, Page 5

NO MONEY FOR EASTER.

INDIGNANT RAIL‘?VA‘.T HANDS.

It was on Monday repol‘.'t‘.-d to 3.

New Zealand Times representative that the men emploged at I-.l;r.bton and 'l‘ho’rndon railway stations are very indignant ovzr the unexpectelri announncement of the liaxdway "De-pm-fulenr that, wag-.=.5 \\'llic?: are «we to ge paid on Friday nest’. will not now

bo paid until the r‘o110win:; Friday. “This nleans." zznid zmc-L "ch-at Fas-

ter week———the uclid-u;v' period when :3. ‘little stand-by cash is needed—.vnll have to be spent, by -.1 large number of families without the cllstomary wage being drawn. Fhis will catusg considerable hardship, and as wages are only paid foytnightly, this only makes matters Worse.”

The trouble appears to be due la‘ the fact that March 31st is the and of the financial year. The railway hands point out that provision could have been made for this surely.

“A. private firm would ‘yever inflict such a hardship on its hands!" ob« served another railway oflicial to the Times reporter, “and sul-ely the State should .’be the model employs-.r and set the load in the just and proper treat-.‘,,« mrrzt of ifs c>nlplc»yees,”