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NZ Truth, Issue 59, 4 August 1906, Page 3

Buy the famous ."Buster Brown" Post. Cards.— 63 Manners-street, next Opera House. ; As, a proof of the absolute . truth of what is written m the leader headed "Hard Times" on Jjage" :four, the following r advert|sement' from Tuesday's "Post" would be hard to beat : Wanted to Sell Blue Silk Sunshade, 10s ; girl hard up.. Sunshade, Evening "Post." Could anything be more convincing that the poor of Wellington are very poor indeed, than for. a girl to be so anxious to dispose of her beloved sunshade ? Almost a moral the lass is unable to live on her wages and has got back m her room rent. A correspondent writes drawing attention to the fact that most of our smaller coastal craft are manned by seamen of Danish, German or Scandinavian birth. Frank Bullen, m one of his recent lectures, remarked upon the same fact. The British mercantile marine pays better wages than these fellows can get m their own country and consequently they flock to British ports. The conditions on British ships are so much better than those they have been used to that they will put up with twice the bullying- a Britisher will stand, and still think they are m Heaven. Unless some compulsion be brought to bear upon British Shipping Companies enforcing the employment of British sailors our national hero will soon be as defunct as the dodo.