CADETSHIPS.
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The Commissioner of Customs has resolved to engage the services of well educated youths as " cadets." So says our Dunedin Telegraph Agent. The meaning of this is that a number of well educated young men of respectable families are to be allowed to do the work of the Customs Departments throughout the Provinces of the Colony, for which they will receive pay about equal to that given to a runner boy for a newspaper, or a lad engaged to deliver parcels or to carry messages for a drapery establishment. Parents will look upon these cadetahips as being highly respectable, the appointment promising in the very distant future a miserable annual stipend upon which to maintain a spurious gentility. The salary of these cadets, we are informed will range from £lO to £QO per annum. And it is by the constitution of such cadetships that the Colony is deprived of the use of young blood to open up the interior, whilst our towns and cities become over crowded by surplus respectability being encouraged to hang about the doors of Government offices, supplicating that kind of patronage which can only be obtained at the sacrifice of much independence and feeling.
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Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1137, 30 December 1873, Page 4
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202CADETSHIPS. Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1137, 30 December 1873, Page 4
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