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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14699, 6 December 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)

■ HIE REWARD OF .SERVICE. to tiik Enrrou. om,—l ilnnk that the thank of the wholo community are due to you for drawing attention to the pctiliWof Major Mair for more generous treatment at the hands of tho Government, Surely to treat a man whose noble actions and able administrations have Won so much for the country in so ignoui'nious a manner is to bring disgrace upon the country for which he has done so much. For my own part 1 think that, apprais'ii" the mutter on the lowest ground, the >.oun" try can well alford to recognise such services, and giro honourable independence to the remaining years of so distinguished a man if the |«;n«ion were fixed at £500 ayear. A man does his duty, doubtless, from high prinoiplc, but tho spectacle of an ungenero.w country leaving ono who has eo done it unrecognised and wretched is but a poor inducement to tho youth of tile land to follow a brave and self-denying example I am, etc., . S. T. UUKKDIX. ' Hnhopsgrovc, ISovember 30.