SUNDAY WORK.
IN AUCKLAND POST OFFICE. Press Afi.soolar.um. Auckland, April 14. With respect to the complaint by the Presbytery of Sunday work in the Post Office; Mr Diyden, actingPostmaster, states that he visited Wellington and discussed with the authorities matters connected with the despatch and distribution of Main Trunk railway mails, involving Sunday work at the Post Office. If the best possible service was to b© given the public mails for the South must close on Sunday evening. The mail arrived from Wellington cn Sunday morning, and was distributed in the private letter hoses by two men who were employed for three or four hours giving commercial men an opportunity to peruse their correspondence anti reply the same day. The head office approved of the arrangement made. If there was any difference of opinion it was whether they had-gone'far enough and whether they should not also have had a Sunday clearance ot street letter boxes. In any case the Sunday work involved was infinitesimal.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9418, 14 April 1909, Page 5
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164SUNDAY WORK. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9418, 14 April 1909, Page 5
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