TIME V. WORK.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3019, 30 March 1867, Page 5

TIME Y. WORK.

To the Edit«r of the Daixt Southern Cross. Sir, — I was somewhat amused at reading the following in our old friend J. Crispe's letter in. to-day's issue: — "Let all Government officials work eight hours instead of six per day, *nd thus a saving of fully 25 per cent, will be made." No one knows more certainly, or estimates more accurately, -what can or cannot be done in six hours than our Old Practical 'friend, who was once himself an official in the Crown grant department of yore — one out of fire others who considered it a day's work to produce one Crown grant. Questien : Would ten more hours added to the time of the above five employ gs produce one more grant ? lirovr not. I venture to assert that such, an addition to the time would be a loss of ten per cent., instead of a gain of twenty-five pec cent. as anticipated by our friend, who is fully aware of all the bearings of the case, and how that would most likely occur, viz., the horse and the pond. That there is a necesaity for retrenchment, both in money and labour, is readily admitted ; he ha» partially hit upon the first, but he ha« made a. random, shot at the last. — I *m, &c., '• ' Anti-Ked-Tati. Auckland, March 27, 1867.