Troubles of a Retail Draper Paying One Thousand a-Year Rent.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 118, 27 May 1885, Page 3

Troubles of a Retail Draper Paying One Thousand a-Year Rent.

(To the Editor.) ■V-I will commence my letter in the "Wte fashion: Knowing your deairoto '''all cases of real persecution, I avail W, with your kind permission, of tho *»UU of yonr widely-read paper. Some ?• ago I noticed in your columns a ~*'from some individual complaining of 'ocouvenience of swooping the footways "M morning. To that lotter I should *• replied, but for the reason that tho p«didnot appendhia name. I thought. "™d watch the course of events, and as I 2*^l this morning at a quarter to ■JW o'clock, Mr Goldie pounced down jwoyman who, with the assistance ot a 2'*M brußhiag our matting and cleaning jP ac footway. Of course, Mr Goldio has 3« he always has, written inatrucf* from Mr Philips, Town Clerk, ljpa% this course. flow, tho j™0"! arises, what are wo shopJ* 1 to do ? We sweep, or pay for tepog, the footpath tor passengers I *«h as we do for ourselves. J^ny men on the ground be- ** 1 and 7.30. I have, at ■f»9ab«> expense (as much for the coa- , *»M of the public as ourselves), had ™ ? stand-pipe and hose that can be j"~ J ansty weather, not only to keep fat on the footpath, but on the road hiV* Be^om Bet a water cart when JMtisblewiqg. The question arises, jj W wa to do in this country : You JT' g®- people to come to work E^orthan 8 o'clock. In BinningJ*™ London, if the thing I am speaking i im,.?? ne ai»ytime before nine o'clock £°?™»g would be said. lam afraid Ji]?; "O would soon begin to complain if sqjy° tfffty were not swept by someone. 6, ' 8ton« this spirit of annoyance to .persona who pay the bulk of jJJ"« « stopped,the better.—l am, &c,

J^'male Prison Gate Brigade weekly KKIi- B week ending May 24th, 18S5: limn,.." lnto Homo, 2; left the Home, sCJ^ng in Home, i ; number of beds Vti^'^oiW of meals supplied, 140. 1C"S« "> food: Bread, Mrs Howie, |j^vansandWaddell;banana3,Mr\VilW T56t4l>lee,MrKemp; meat, Mesara WijT a7 ett' and Barnott; grocorics, ; potatoes, two sfi:llu?L ."iend." Donations in cloth*>*mti?™'»r Hannah : old clothing, Jte^SheUyßaßch. Wante: Tea, lllg^jgWots.and clothing.—A. Davey,.