GOVERNMENT RETRENCHMENT.
(To the JEditor.) Sib, — The' letter of your correspondent " Apropos," is more abusive than argumentative: retrenchment, apparently, has no charms for him. Notwithstanding hit contradiction, I adhere to my statement re privilegei enjoyed by the railway employes, and until you, Mr Editor, tell me I am wrong, I must continue to believe that it is true. As to the pay they receive, I consider the surfacemen the best paid class df laborers in the Colony. Their average earnings, I suppose, will be little •hort of £2 per week, and I am sure their . work is not laborious. It. would take a good deal of it to " kill" a man, and why they and theirs should be allowed to travel on the railway lines at about one-fourth the rate that I have to pay it more than I can understand. Why should these things, be? That is the question.— l am, &c, B&T&strCBUBWr.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1028, 29 March 1884, Page 3
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154GOVERNMENT RETRENCHMENT. Tuapeka Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1028, 29 March 1884, Page 3
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