Our Greymouth morning contemporary thinks we were " somewhat hard upon the Telegraph Department" in an editorial on Friday last. And if the writer of the paragraph had kept to the text quoted, we should perhaps have had nothing to say in reply. Our remarks were levelled at the Department, and the Department only. We made no attack on local operators, nor certainly upon local linemen—(than of whom it may be said there are no other such drudging or unthanked servants in the public service) ; and we should be very sorry if our strictures were so taken. We confess the time may have been inopportune for such sentiments to have been brought out ; but if our contemporary will read again, he will find that we had previous cause for complaint. Of course one is more apt to find fault when the news is correspondingly important.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1523, 15 August 1881, Page 2
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