Thoughts For The Times
Increasing The Burden. This continual subsidising of the pub lie servants is a scandal and a grievou injustice. The public servants are feel ; ing the pinch of liifeh prices, but so ar< jwe all. The extra- payments to the em ' ployees of the State will be borne bj people who are worse off than those whe were sufficiently farsighted to get jntc government employment, which we arc now asked to regard as a privileged state of existence, to be carefully safeguarded against the winds of adverse cir. cumstance that may blow freely upon the silly folk without the pale. What the public servants are demanding is that they shall be made as comfortable as if the war had not occurred.—Press, Christchurch,
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1920, Page 2
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