WHOSE FAULT?
[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.*] Sib, —In common with many other members of St. John's Chuch congregation I was disgusted to-day at being accosted in the street by tbe verger of that church who presented me with a begging letter,—l cannot call it anything else—which set forth that he (the verger) had received no remuneration for. cleaning out the church during the progress of the present alterations. Well, Sir, whose fault is that ? Surely the vestry could never have so far forgotten what is due to the dignity of St. John's as to order the verger to go into the streets to get paid for his work. If the verger only did his duty in cleaning up after the carpenters, he cannot expect extra pay; if it was not his duty, why did he undertake it? A back-slum "Little Bethlehem" would have been too proud to do what our pretentious "pro-cathedral" has stooped to commit —an act of vagrancy.—-I am., &c,
Pewholdeh. Napier, December 21, 1881.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3272, 28 December 1881, Page 2
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