TINUI NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4475, 20 July 1893, Page 3

TINUI NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent,) The Tenui Pooibnll Club met for practice On Saturday last. There was a fair muster of players but the game was very slow, Sides were chosen by J. Owen and D. Cameron, The ball was kicked out of touch so often and numerous scrums resulted that ttio play was far from interesting. J, Owen played well, and F. Nicholls made one or two dodgy runs. A, Cameron worked hard in the forwards and 13. G'ollerton showed some fair form as a back, Ho is a young player, and is likely to develop into a good full back. Threkald would be better with tho forwards, as ho holds the ball too long for a back, and tries to run too much. The mads are still bad, but coach traffic is now open right through, The roadmen are making short work slips, Children beware of the wringer I My eldest daughter accidentally put her finger between the cogs of the wringing machine, whilst her mother was wringing some clothes, and it was severely crushed, a portion of the ' finger adboring to the cog-wheel. I have seen sonio comments lately in newspapers about contractors being unablo to make jobs pay through . having taken them ut too low an estimate. Ido not think it can bo that reason so much as their own inability to do the work, If a man can drive a nail and saw a piece of wood ho thinks himself capable of undertaking any job, however complicated it may be, and only when he gets in a lix does he realise his ignorance of the work, Not a little doeß tho currying outoi the work defend upon the laborer he employs, If a contracior cannot do work himself in a workmanlike manner he cannot distinguish the necessary abilities of his employes and is consequently obliged to call in the services of a more skilful mechanic and pay him high wages, whilst he himself is a deadhead and draws more out of the job than he earns. A '"double drag is thus put on a not ovc-r .rWiunerative contractor had ho been able to manago the work himself he would not have required a foreman, Ilia a well-known fact that the managers of businesses always take the greater part of tho profits, and any business carried on without a manager always pays larger profits. An inexperiencedcontractor,too, plays Bad havoc with material. His workmen " grin up their sleeves" as they seo their boss going from ono part of tho job to another without any definite purpose, but their grin is changed, too often, into a wince, when weok after week goes by and no pay for their hard toil. If they nro married, away from tbeir families, with two homos as it were to support and no ruoiigyjrsend, thty find the boot pinoTT.and curso the day they entered upon the work. Even if they get their wages in tbo end they have to wait a long time for a settlement, and their families, in the meantime, on tho verge of starvation. Tho mischief docs not stop at this, for the storekeepers and millowners, who havo trusted them havo to be satisfied with a third or half at most of the amount of their bills when they are sent in, if they are not infrequently met with a "[gone up tho spout," and you must join in with the rest of the creditors I