NAPIER NOODLES.

NZ Truth, Issue 67, 29 September 1906, Page 3

NAPIER NOODLES.

WANTED: A MAN MARVEL. Harbor Board's Boundless Gall. The Napier Harbor Board wants a clerk and advertised the vacancy, salary £3 a week. There were a pood many applicants and when the^ wrote for particulars this is the reply they got : — NAPIER HARBOR BOARD. September, 1906. Particulars of duties pertaining to clerkship. Salary £156 per annum. Hours, 8 a.m. "to 5 p.m., overtime to be worked if required. Application to be m applicant's own handwriting, and to state age and whether married or single. Essential that applicant must be thoroughly competent at shorthand, I typewriting, book-keeping, and a good correspondent. ■ -■ ■ Applicant to state whether he is competent at tracing plans, also at receiving and delivering cargo. Situation subject to a month's notice on either side. '' ■'■■< Before an appointment, is made a doctor's certificate to be lodsred with the Harbor Board stating that applicant, is m perfectly sound health. : Applicant to state when he could commence. | From this it would appear that the Napier Harbor ' Board wants a lot for its. miserable £156 per year. The hours are those of a- laborer ; and the qualifications are more than are possessed by the secretary of any such Board, himself. It is a rarity to find any man who is a typist and stenographer and also capable of keeping a set of books and acting as corresponding clerk, but this precious sweating Napier Harbor Board wants him to be also a" surveyor and civil engineer and a cargo and shipping cleric as well. The institution should be thoroughly ashamed to offer so wretched a salary and yet demand so much. It is neither more nor less than sweating of the most flagrant kind, and it is to be hoped that no matt will be found mean enough to. accept the position. . ;