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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 September 1950, Page 4

SANDY'S CORNER Equal pay for equal work—doet that mean we want a nation of old maids? OLD COINS! Dear “Sandy"—l also have some George 111. half-crowns in my possession, but neither those coins nor those “Martonlan" has are old coins in the sense that some others in my possession Roman and Greek ' coins of the period 400 to 500 B.C. But the point I wish to make is that I was very surprised that coins cf Victoria and Edward VII. were still in circulation.—Yours, “Interested” PHOTOS FOR CIVILITY! We are glad Mr. Holland took the first opportunity to deny reports that all civil servants are to be photographed. What do we want photographs of the Civil Service for. and faking them by and large, they probably wouldn't like us having photographs of them anyhow. We presume that what was intended was to send the photos cut as sort of Christmas cards, and wo notice that the that gave rise to tht question had it that, a start was being made with the Land and Income Tax De- ! partment. In all probability the idea was to .make the annual “Christmas I ca.d" that department sends to its i i customers a trifle brighter, by includiling a photo of, .say, the head of the i department, the second in command, lithe chief clerk, and, probably, the h clerk who made the assessment, plus | the office girl. “Pay this account bei fore such a date, or else . . would perhap; sound a lot sweeter were It jsaid with photo than without photo.