"ANXIETY,"

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 508, 15 May 1909, Page 13

"ANXIETY,"

'S' r .—%, your recent iiotes, y'ou'.havo told that twelve of their number now employed in tho Land and Income Tax Deapartment aro .to bo retrenched. '- .Trom the c early mortirig I "do the expressions of anuousness and expectancy as .; We; look at ohi another, -and * wonder is: it E&f °w? 17 / e iO J- o i r l cer - Men laugh and jest.i and tho bright: side of our office llfo is subdued as a fresh rumour reaches of someone who thinks ho has been well informed R0 , 111f 5 to< be among? those less fortunate than others. You can imagine >r?,?:.WS-:.a:My f^ m s.-)yhen.inefi are .continually e\pectmg some surprise. Might I ask , that you will lmplpro those gentlemen, upon whom this unpleasant duty will evolve, not to ; cietor.,from settling ,tho peace of mind of -. ®. 13 shall then meet, and' ; who .have; become attached to-one. another .-in-'their 3ai oifßco -routine, 8 t??-? 9 8° of 'doubtless -'/'excellent to come, and let .it bo soon .- - The expectation is worse than the realisation. Kindiv give this some slight publicity, as in tho United : : 'r^„t4,T et T' ; - ar - B .v-^ w^I .^ediately : jV'and;-not country i—i am, etc., - May li 1 WORRIED- ■ Ml 0 .urged upon tho Government tho necessity of doing what our cor--3 i u ¥ es - ts ; r ** 18 tho least that could be' asked of Ministers.] "