C AN A MAN SERVE TWO MASTERS.
TO THE EDITOE. Sir, — The above remark was made, and recorded in a book the authenticity of which very few will 'dare to question. That it is not within the range and compass of human ability to serve two masters, and serve them faithfully, , is a fact quite patent to the most shallow thinker. Yet lam told there is one hot many miles from Balclutha combining the superhuman qualification to? prosecute, a double service:. He seems to have before him a multiplicity of duties in connection with ail appointment . in the Government service, and at the same time) to all ap-
pearance, holds an agency from 'a trading firm for the sale of butcher meat. cer* tainly would not blame anyone purchasing his butcher meat for his own private iise at jthe cheapest market*; but to undertake to -push the salo of butcher meat for ah outside firm is, to say the best, unbeseeming in a Government official. As far • as I am aware> the butchers in Balclutlia . and Stirling have always been very assiduous and attentive in supplying the districts with meat, and likewise quite . reasonable in then* charges ; so I think they ought to be allowed to prosecute their calling without, the interference or* one in Government employment. — I am> &c. , Fairplay,
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Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 236, 17 January 1879, Page 6
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221CAN A MAN SERVE TWO MASTERS. Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 236, 17 January 1879, Page 6
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