CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 151, 24 June 1878, Page 4

COR RE SPONDENCE.

To the Editor oivthe 'Evening Mail.' SlE,— -If I asked you in the strictest confidence if yuu had ever done ah impossibility, probably you would answer with a, gruff "No." Williyou allow me to show you that a man can do it^ at least ■■-as far as a public notice goes v In passing through Wakefield some time,ago,,l saw a notice stuck up "Registrar's Office Open at 3 p.m.," and upon etoquiring,'! found the school master was also' the Registrar of the District. , As I was' given to understand his 1 duties at this. time of the year in the school did not cense until half-past three, I felt puzzled, and could not f see how one man could ba in two places at the same time, that is a nut that I must leave to the Board of Education to crack, as I am not sufficiently: learned to do it. As it appears of little use to send to Ministers resolutions .passed at a pnblic meeting unless you threaten a .deputation also, no no- > tice is jtakenor it,, but, .to relieve the Registrar" "of "' "the' district from the dilemma in wh'ibh 1 he seems placed,

suppose he got the office hours altered j for the benefit of the public to the hours i at which they usually dispense medicine, say from 9to 11— no, that would j not do, as it would interfere with his duties as schoolmaster— well say from 7 to 9 p.m., which would, no doubt suit everybody.— l am, &c, An Observes,