SURFACE MEN,
[To the Editor,] Sir.—Having noticed in your corrcspondont'' Telford's" letter, in your issv(e ojf tho 2nd instant, I would like to, take excaption to his assertion tfst qn rainy daya ' not a single surface man will bo upon hia beat." for myself, a,t any rate, I «an apeaji, and having been in the employ of the County Council for over six* yeira, ' I can assert that, except on occasions when I have been ordered away by the . < Engineer, 1 have never been a single day ' absent from my portion of tho road.'V I am certain that lam not an exception'ito / ' the general rulo of surface men, atid, '] therefore, I consider "Telford's" assertion'' ■' avery unnecessaryanduncalledfor villific- , ation of a class of workmen which is nob • ' \ lesß industrious than others. ,4* ; - k • . ; NmLTOD " l Rodman; Eketahunsj
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2265, 8 April 1886, Page 2
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136SURFACE MEN, Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2265, 8 April 1886, Page 2
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