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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 136, 9 May 1891, Page 2

A useful suggestion has been made to the effect that another letter box could, with great advantage to the convenience of the public, be placed at the corner of Mr Carthew's shop, which the official would be put to little or no extra trouble in clearing when on hia return from the box now placed in the Borough Council office building. We are aware that hundreds of persons in the course of the -week avail themselves of the services of Mr Carthew as a licensed vendor of stamps, and the whole of these would be grateful for the trouble they would be thus saved of going to the Post Office at the Railway Station, or the receiving box at the Council Chambers. The actual cost would be a mere bagatelle. We hope that the authorities w'll give this matter their most favorable consideration. As an instance of the cruelty inflicted by the foolish and wicked strikes on unoffending women and helpless children, we quote the following from the Post : — A truly pitiable case of destitution caused by the strike of the tram employes lust year came before the Trustees of the Wellington Benevolent Board on Tuesday afternoon, when an evidently respectable woman, the mother of five children, applied for assistance. She informed the Board — and her narrative was in substance corroborated by the Relieving officer — that her husband had been a tram driver for eight years until the tram strike threw him out of work, since which time according to her statement, no one would employ him at the kind of work he was fitted, for. He was at present looking for employment up country, whilst she was very ill, her rent was greatly in arrears, and her children and herself were terribly pinched for food. It was resolved to extend rations and rent for two weeks.