CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8143, 15 December 1904, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

CHRISTMAS BOXES.

(Tp the Editor^ .J'.-Inwply to "M* Storekeeper's etter re Xmas boxes, I must be allowed* to say on behalf of tb> shilling an hour men that nine out of. ejrery ten would nob lower themselves to. ask for presents from such as he, as thjy •» the proudest and most independent men in the colony. Mr Storekeeper » as usual whining about th* hard timw he has had thiTyear,' but ho never thinks of the eight-hour man who has worse times considering he can only work in fine weather, but Sm to eat and drmk wet or fine, which means goiaf to the storekeeper, for Ue necessaries" and I think I can guarantee that nine out of Si ? ay U ? lrl^ "° * h «* *he Poo* whining gatekeeper has very little to growl at. I think our friend the storekeeper was very foolish in putting those slighting remarks about the younc working men, because he will find that he is. very much like the fool in the fable who killed the goote for the golden «gg, tho only *Jfe*eXe» being tW*t,h<» «to^Up«r will not wen get one egg after, it is dead. (I thu* I can quote th"woitds of a sone for advice to storekeep«rj who tun down the working man. I forge t the mom of it; but some of the word? read Cks thiiSo beware. Have a, care How you tuead on his taiL'^ Je selling at bedrock jprjcti. Now I gling. storekeeper li mtg fc Jml goo& it cosjiV: ff* yJZ & working D*> p l£ who aw in his ayes » iptonmT^nd well to do. f- rntafc lIVVSt WhE* 19 /■*■** 23K| 'perhaps hare not crosj^h* briiv Nfc» s»»»Mt km < B*J£Sl£Za'2»'32l I,