The Postmen.
They have been treated in a manner a great deal too high-banded for tbe age, which is favourable to the granting of reasonable requests. The postmen are most miserably underpaid, many of them not receiving more than fifteen shillings a week. But the Poßt- Office, they serve so well, makes an annual profit of three millions "sterling. " Britons never shall be slaves "—except when they get into the employment of the Government which rules the sea. The postmen of the great Empire on which the sun never sets are simply iv a position of slavery — hopeless poverty and rigid rules. What else can it be called ? Here is a case for the mediation of the Prince of Wales. The difficulty of his position is very great, however, for the jealousminded, of narrow views, will be raising a howl against His Eoyal Highness "fishing for political influence."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6910, 21 July 1890, Page 2
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148The Postmen. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6910, 21 July 1890, Page 2
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