Adding Insult to Injury
Afteb the Government making it impossible for persons with small means to take up land, the Wanganui Herald which speaks with the voice of one having authority, says : — " We have every sympathy with the poorly-paid Government employees who are under notice, and trust that they will soon succeed in getting other and better paid work, or employ their savings to enable them to take up land and make a home for themselves and their families on some of the blocks now open tor .selection. The life would be a, I different ©toe to that they have been ] so long used to, but it would be a healthy one, and if they persevered and worked industriously, a prosperous one. The Civil Service of the colony has grown too rankly, and it is necessary for the welfare of the people of the country that its cost should be lessened, ami that wherever offices can be prudently abolished or amalga mated it should be done." Very like a whale-!
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 112, 14 March 1891, Page 2
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170Adding Insult to Injury Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 112, 14 March 1891, Page 2
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