THE EMPLOYMENT OF FEMALES.

NZ Truth, Issue 150, 2 May 1908, Page 4

THE EMPLOYMENT OF FEMALES.

In the Public Service circles the employment of females is not looked on with favorable eyes, and though the male grumbles and growls, he hasn't the moral courage to raise a loud howl and draw- attention to the unfairness of things, simply because he might be himself bumped out; on his pink ear. Anyhow, tru+h to tell, there are too many females 'm the Public Service, particularly m the Post and Telegraph Department, and to say the least of it, some. of these feiirales get on amazingly well ; their ■progress is more marked than the mere nrale, and this paper, for the sake of these suppressed males, wishes to say a few words. Now, without going into \letails, "Truth" wishes to mention that at Weraroa, there is a postmistress m charge who receives something like £120 per annum and quarters, winch is equal to another £60 per year, but when it is mentioned that the §ai<l postmistress is separated frp-m 'her spouse and receives alimony, itis jip to (to use a sporting phrase) isfte* :;§tewards to ask a question. Nowf^here is another instance, Manakau has a lady m charge ofc. the post office who also receives something like £120, anrthas an assistant, bless her heart, and needless to remark, the assistant does all ; the toil, while the postmistress apes the lady, or something of the sort m the social scale, and draws her pay. regularly. Now, at Shannon there isn't a femiale m charge, ]>uli there is an Imperial pensioner who receives £150 per annum 1 for servicess rendered m the past and on top of this he receives £150 v per anwum fyrom the paternal iNew Zealand Government, and has free quarters, which is equivalent to another £60 per annum. Now, this is a rotten state of affairs generally. The postal officials right throughout the Dominion are a sweated lot, whose hope of promotion seems very small. The females get on well, and Joe Ward, as Postmaster-General, ought to hearken and shake things up.