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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 307, 11 December 1884, Page 2

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•Ve do not hold ourselvea responsible for the opinions expt eased by our eoi respondents.) TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Having learned that certain hotel.ieepera recently held an unadvertiseu fleecing relative to the reduction of the wagee d their servants, 1 as one, would like to point out the utter absurdity of such a nioveueut. Every servant in an hotel has a position •f i rust, which lie may either faithfully carry out or altogether betray. There is an oiu saying, “ pay a man sufficiently well to keep a*»ai Aiuueai,' ana in iio way does it appiy more than to the respective positions of the proprietors of an hotel aud his employes. i’ne wages earned by anyone in service of this sort is not obtained without disagreeable tasks, long hours, and having (which to a nun wiiu proper pride is more than nil) to put up witn daily insults, he has to ba well .ressed, his linen perfectly clean, and be polite to roughs and gentlemen (?) Now, ■>ir, the outside public know very little of the .menial working of an hotel, or if they did, tuey would siiongly protest against the .ci.ion of one or two of the bomfaces who initiated tne movement, and would honoi those who strenuously objected, aud.decluiea -nat they would feel only too pleased to pive uieir buys a “rise” if times would permit ,ui it,-~1 am, <Xro., . One of them,