A TELEGRAPHIC SCANDAL.
A special correspondent of the “Lyttelton Times,” writing of the shortcomings of the Wellington Telegraph Department says : —Another and graver scandal has arisen in connection with the Wellington Telegraph Office. lam now writing of it as an office—not as the department. I would fain not allude to it, but as the matter is already public property, and, in more or less distorted forms, the subject of general gossip, it cannot be passed over in silence. Several ladies are employed in the office. Some considerable time ago one of these obtained leave of absence under circumstances which led her companions to regard her return as little short of an insult. A second time leave of absence has been given, and the announcement that she would return in due course has been met on the part of all the ladies employed in the department by an intimation that if so (hey will feel it incumbent to resign. The scandal has been—or immediately will be —brought under the notice of the Government. The chances are that the ladies in question will not have to resign, although it is more than whispered that an official of the other sex will be called upon for an explanation.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2386, 9 November 1880, Page 4
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205A TELEGRAPHIC SCANDAL. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2386, 9 November 1880, Page 4
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