CORRESPONDENCE.
A VALUABLE INSIGHT (To the Editor.) Sir, —Your paragraph re the demands of the wharf laborers for six hours pay for 1 to 1% tours’ work, unloading fruit, is instructive and illuminating. Everyone is complaining of the cost of living generally. The cost of frul? in New Plymouth is generally considered to be above the average of other places. The wharfltes are apparently desirous that this state of things should continue, and that the general public should sfßl have to pay through the nose for everything. Yet only the week before last these same men were going round with a list asking the general mi bile to subscribe towards the cost of their picnic, the inference being that with their starvation pay they could not afford •n pay for it themselves. I hope the public Will remember when they make an appeal for next year's picnic.—I am. etc., ONE WHO SUBSCRIBED.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1922, Page 6
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152CORRESPONDENCE. Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1922, Page 6
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