THE TESTIMONIAL NUISANCE.
To the Editor. t SIK, —I was rather amused with the letter of “Grif” in your Saturday’s issue, the writer adv-'eating the giving of a testimonial to a letter-currier, because the latter is leaving the service, and has be<-n civil and obliging. Could anything be more absurd than to testimonjalise a man for doing his duty, which he is paid to do. The next thing will, I suppose, be a testimonial to one’s butcher or baker. The testimonial business has been carried much too far already; and it is high time to draw the somewhere—let it be, for instance, at lettercarriers.—l am, &c., * _ - Common Sense. Dunedin, April 27.
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Evening Star, Issue 3798, 27 April 1875, Page 2
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111THE TESTIMONIAL NUISANCE. Evening Star, Issue 3798, 27 April 1875, Page 2
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