JOBBING IN A LARGE WAY!

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 61, 3 October 1844, Page 3

JOBBING IN A LARGE WAY!

To the Editor of the Auckland Chronicle. Sir, In the "Southern Cross," of August 10tb, 1844 appeared a letter from a Correspondent of that , paper, which letter alludes, in .strung language, to the impropriety of the Colonial S» crttary lending » the Government Types to ihe Editor of the • •'Times," which types were valued at a few I pence, which the Correspondent of the " Cross," did not aUempt to deny, and I would here inform you, ■ Sir, that nothing is more common in England than • for one master Printer to accommodate another ■with the loan of a few " sorts," but what will you, and the Public say, when I inform you that the Member of Council Editor of the •' Southern Cross,'' BORROWED A PRINTER from the Govern- • iment office, last week, to work for him, and for this man's service the PUBLIC WILL HAVE TO PAY out of the Rates that will be collected in a few days. - I would not intrude on your space bnt I do think it is a great hardship that Mr, Skeen, a young man highly respected in Auckland for his uniform cons • duct, and who served an Apprenticeship to the Printing Business, should be employed as a Mes« • seng-er, being unable to get employment at Printing • whilst {the Government supply the Editor of the *, Southern Cross," with their, (or the People's) • Printer's gratis. I remain, Sir, with every respect, v A PRINTER. \ \We must .admit we- were rather ♦surprised when we heard that one of *the Government Printers were at work ;-at the office of the Southern Cross, but -as there has been a deal of "Saft Sawdor" in the Cross of late, and as < there is an old adage—'(One good torn deserves another," it would have been very inconsistent and unkind of the " Powers that be " to refuse the Doctor the loan of a man, or any other favour he might ask to keep him on their hands; however, "we thought HE would have been.the last man in New Zea'and that would have asked a favour of the government.*' We wonder what Mr. Shortland, or "Lord * Stanley will say, when they hear tha.t one of the Government Printers are employed occasionally in Printing the Southern Cross/ —Ed. Chron.]