GOVERNMENT RETRENCHMENT.
Sir, —In the course of conversation with ' a recently-dismissed cffficial'from the Publio " Works Department, .lie informed mo that \ tot only wore .his services dispensed with while.he was engaged as supervisor upon a work less than half finished,-but that he and his family were actually left stranded in a town some hundreds of. miles from the place from which ho was engaged, which .means that he. had to pay rail fares and freight on luggage; etc.. etc., costing about half a month s salary, io get even' to Wellington. Truly the quotation, "From him that hath not shall be taken, even that that he hath" is exemplified hero.■ ... x It is a good thing that the present Government is moribund. Is this justice or is it robbery? I venture to think that no private firm would bo allowed to. send a man hundreds of miles into the country and loavo him there' even oh completion or the work' he was sent'to execute,; much less to leave hira •absolutely stranded and penniless, without notice, on an uncompleted work.—l am, etc., . JON.'A. SIMPSON. May 29, ________,"■ '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 523, 2 June 1909, Page 4
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184GOVERNMENT RETRENCHMENT. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 523, 2 June 1909, Page 4
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