AN OVERWORKED SECRETARY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 October 1913, Page 5

AN OVERWORKED SECRETARY.

(To the Editor.) & Sir,—lt was with a good deal of surprise, not to say indignation, that 1 read in your paper this morning that the Secretary of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, who I understand receives a salary to that of a carpenter or a bricklayer, had been compelled to work seven days in the week, and up to one or two o'clock In the morning, to keep pace with the business of the Board. Now, sir, 1 consider that it is a shameful piece of "sweating" on the part of the Board. The Secretary's work has, I am told, been nearly doubled since the services of the secretaries at Pahiatua and Greytown were dispensed with and his salary has remained the same. In justice to the taxpayers of the district, I consider that the least the Board can do ifi to pay the Secretary an adequate salary and provide him with an assistant. I have not spoken to the Secretary himself on the subject, but if I did, I should tell him that he has no right to keep other people out of work by slaving seveu days a. week and all horn's of "the night.—l am, etc., ARGUS. Masterton, October 2, 1913.

JUSTICES' JUSTICE

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I have been expecting to s«o some comment in your columns on the action of two Masterton Justices of the Peace in fining a ruffian £5 for way-laying a woman in a back street and brutally assaulting her. 1 don't know what the town -will come to if offences of this class are to be dealt with in such a manner. What were the police doing that they did not make the change an indictable oneK If blackguards can terrorise and assault women in iho get off with th« payment of small fines, it will be unsafe for any female to be out after dark. I trust that some more ablo pen than mine will take this matter up, and show the Justices that they owe a duty to the community. — I em, etc., DISGUSTED. Masterton, October 1, 1913.