THE RAILWAY WORKS.
Sir, —-There appeared a paragraph in your last issue in regard to the Wai-kohu-Otoko extension. Now, Sir, in all fairness, these who did not know to the reverse, would be led to believe that the men on the said works were leaving of their own free will. I, with a good few others, can give that a flat contradiction, being turned off on last Saturday week. Prior to being turned olf the line, one of the officials came over the works, taking down the names of the married and single, and the inevitable result was that a goodly number of the latter had to pack up and go. There is one thing, Mr. Editor, that appeals rather strongly to any mind, and that is the seemingly apathetic indifference of the Gisbomeites to nearly all public matters. I have been almost all over the Dominion of New Zealand, and I unhesitatingly affirm without any fear of contradiction, that vou have a great future in vour path, if you only have the real stamina to awake to your true interests. Trusting in the .meantime that you will think it worth while to give this an insertion, —I am, etc...
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2655, 10 November 1909, Page 5
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200THE RAILWAY WORKS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2655, 10 November 1909, Page 5
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