A Bachelor’s Woes.
“ A laborer” writes to the Times eoraplaining that the system of employing men on the railway line is unfair to some men like himself. He has the misfortune to be a single man, and, he says, married men get the preference, but his complaint goes further than that, for he says that though the order is for preference,to be given to married men, and he has been discharged because he does not come under the preferential clause, there are single ones .taken on. “Do they let it be known that they are single?” was the question put to the correspondent. “ Some of them" do,” he replied. Apparently if “A Laborer’s” complaint is fully substantiated his only hope is to take unto himself a partner in life, or grumble hard until some remedy is found for this tax on bachelors. The complaint is worth ventilating. Perhaps the single men taken on are about to get married, in which case it would be necessary to have a little money saved.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 12, 16 January 1901, Page 2
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