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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5022, 10 May 1895, Page 2

Employer* of labour find toWTO p task; sq thankless and of unpleasant, as that of Wakes, reducing wages, and when they do bring them down, it is because a stern necessity for retrenchment exists. The reduction to be liuide in the wages of the staff ami of the surface-mou. in the Wuii'iirapu, North Cftuuty, will bo unpopular, but "we cannot Wilfully say that it is either unnecessary or inexpedient. The surfaco men themselves will not suffer by it as they might under other circumstances. At tho present time the necessaries of life are probably on un average twenty or twenty-five per cent cheaper than they were a year ago,, nwl iv is inevitable that wiigtw' should sooner or later approximate the cost of living. We regret that the County Council should have been compelled to apply the pruning knife, but respect it for having had the courage to perform an obvious duty towards its ratepayers.