ASYLUM ATTENDANTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15900, 11 April 1912, Page 8

ASYLUM ATTENDANTS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Kindly allow me a few lines to comment on tlio conditions of two branches of the Government service. Tho railway employees (about the best paid men in the Government employ) havo continually kept up a frightful howling oyer their wages. Of course, they know that if they keep it up long enough, people will begin to think that there is something radically wrong. They are overjoyed at Air Millar’s removal from Ministerial rank, and unless Air Myers can perform a _miracle and put their wages up they will be as bitter as gall against him in a few months. Now there is another branch of servants who carry out their duties efficiently and uncomplainingly. These men are the' asylum attendants. Their work is by no means enviable, and they work about twelve and a half hours n clay on the average. For this they receive a miserablo pittance of about £BO per year and receive about tlio same amount of holidays as tho railway service men. Looking at the position in an unbiassed light, would it not ho fairer if'tho hard-workerl asylum attendants were given a rise in wages instead of tho railway employees?—l am, etc.. DISGUSTED.