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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2

Wellington, 28 August, 1888

Wellington, 28 August, 1888.

Trade in our city has been pretty brisk up to within the last month, but is now slackening off. This, of course, is due to the falling-off of parliamentary work. Parliament will finish up this week, and then we shall have a slack time, owing to the number of hands who will be turned away from the Government Printing Office. Already about a dozen in the piece-room have received a week's notice; and, as is customary, more will receive their little « love-letters » after the House has risen. I hear that when the Government Printer gets into his new premises he will do a great deal more work than he has hitherto undertaken, but it is not yet known how this will affect his staff. I hope for the sake of the comps. employed by him at present that the work will necessitate a larger excess staff than has hitherto been kept on.

Messrs. W. D. Haggett and Percy have leased the jobbing-room of the New Zealand Times from Mr. Chantry Harris. Mr. Harris has been foreman of the room for about three years. He is an old Christchurch Press apprentice, and worked in the jobbing-room of the Timaru Herald under his father, Mr. D. Haggett, for about eight years, in the Herald's palmy days, when Mr. Herbert Belfield was proprietor. Mr. Haggett is a first-class printer, with a taste for higher-class work, and he is sure to make a reputation for the firm. Mr. Percy has been a canvasser for the Times for some years, and is well up in the city's ways. I wish the new firm every success.