SURVEYORS' CLAIMS.
To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cross. Sir, — There are a number of unfortunates who, having been employed by Government; and having duly performed their part of the bargain, are now bandied ' about from pillar to post, and are deprived of their just dues on the most frivolous, paltry, and shuffling excuses. If a private individual fails to keep his monetary engagements he is branded as a rogue and a swindler, and is consigned to the safe keeping of the debtors' prison. But those who hold our destinies in their hands appear above all such pains and penalties, and by interminable evasions, unworthy of a Government of, the meanest pretensions, keep the unhappy surveyors at the-verge of starvation, waiting for what they have justly earned at the expense of of health and a total abrogation for months together of all the comforts of- civilised life.— I An Unfoettjnjlte.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2711, 26 March 1866, Page 6
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