THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 54, 31 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

♦ TO THB KDITOK. Sib— lt was rumoured to-day both inside and outside the Government Printing Oflioe that two of the new hands taken on to work yesterday only arrived in the colony on Sunday in the Gothic. I have no means of proving the truth of the rumour and hop* it is not true. But as thaw are still a number of residents in the oolony who are unable to get work at their trade and have ! been applicants for this work for a lone I time, if it is the oase there has been irrouj I injustice done, j - „"',, ,1>1am,40., ' UMEKPLOyBD PjUNIBB Wellington, 27th August, 1896. ' Women workers in Germany rarely leoeive more than 10s a week. - " One of the.most curious packs of cards everseenwasmadeby aoonviot out of the beef bones collected from the oonviote' soup, and split into delicate thinness. whioh has been recently introduced into England, v said to threaten the extinction of the gold-beating industry. ' It consists of depositing a thin coating of gold on a copper base, and then dissolving the base wft£ perobtonde of iron. It is reported **£* *° c reduction in weight of theleaf effeots a further saying of 80 per oent, in the preowuß metal.