The Petition:
For Increase of Salary to PM Hill End General Post office
from Residents B 4070
19.10.71
To the Honble
The Post Master General.
We the undersigned residents of Hill End must respectfully desire to bring under notice the very large amount of business transacted in our Post Office and the very inadequate salary paid to our Post Master. The mail we understand averages over 250 letters and 70 newspapers and from 6 to 10 Registered letters each mail. There is also a large amount of business done in the money order department. With the Commission on stamps the emoluments do not amount to Thirty Pounds per annum. A sum certainly inadequate when it is considered that the Post Office has to be kept opened from 9am to 6pm and that the Post Master has to remain up all night three nights per week which causes considerable expense for fuel kerosene &c for which no allowance is made from the Post Office department. We request that you will take this case under your favourable consideration and allow him a remuneration equal to what is paid others who discharge similar duties.
We have the honor to be
Sir
Your most obedient servants
The Petitioners:
| Surname | First name or Initials |
| ? villes | L.U. |
| ?erberry | John Thos. |
| Ackermann | Michael |
| Aylin | S.M. |
| Baptiste | John |
| Barry | Thomas |
| Bethell | Fredk. |
| Bowler | Isaac |
| Bromley | Edward |
| Brown | Charles |
| Brown | Thomas |
| Bryant | G. |
| Burgess | J.A. |
| Busbla??? | S.T. |
| Bushby | Joseph |
| C | Wm. |
| C? | John |
| Canning | George |
| Carkeek | John |
| Challor? | Charles |
| Chapple | Alfred |
| Clubb | Alexander |
| Coburn | William |
| Corrie | A.B. |
| Cox | James |
| Currin? | Patt |
| Davison | David |
| Denman | Henry |
| Drummond | Thomas |
| Eade | William |
| Eade | Able |
| Eddy | Peter |
| Edwards | W. |
| Elliott | Adam |
| Ettinger | Phillipp |
| Fisher | William |
| Fitzgerald | Patrick |
| Frazer | John |
| Freeman | Thomas |
| Garbutt | Suggett |
| Gard | John |
| Giddey | Richard |
| Goodwin | Enoch |
| Hammond | M.J. |
| Hen? | F. |
| Hermann | ?P |
| Hill | George |
| Hobson? | William |
| Hodgson | George |
| Holman | Samuel |
| Holtermann | B.O. |
| Horn | Wm. O |
| Horne? | William |
| Ingall | William |
| Jacobson | Frederick |
| James | John |
| Jeffery | Alexander? |
| Johnson | John |
| Jowett | William |
| Kanard | W. |
| Kellie | A.W. |
| Kerin | Patrick |
| Kerr | R.O. |
| King | Michael |
| King ( x his mark) | Nicholas |
| Knight | John |
| Krohmann | John |
| Laing | W. |
| LaRoche | George |
| Lee | Richd. |
| Lees | J.W. |
| Leonard | ? |
| Lewis | A.M. |
| Li? | H. |
| Little | Isaac |
| Lowe | James |
| Macpherson | William |
| Male | Robert |
| Marshall | Wilson |
| Mc ???laville | James |
| McCabe | John |
| McGovern | Patt |
| McGrathe? | John |
| Merris | Chas. |
| Molony | Wm. |
| Morrison | John |
| Myer | Peter |
| Nable | George |
| Palmer | John |
| Parsons | ? |
| Parsons | ?? |
| Pascoe | John James |
| Paxton | Joseph |
| Penhall | D.A. |
| Peters | Thomas |
| Pine | W. |
| Pittenwrigh | George |
| Pullen | W.T. |
| Radley | John |
| Raward | William |
| Reap? | J. |
| Redman | John |
| Richards | John |
| Rickard | Joseph |
| Rossiter | John |
| Rourke | John |
| Rourke | Michael O. |
| Sansom | W. |
| Schoenbeck | H. |
| Seymaur | John |
| Sheppard | M. |
| Slack | W.J. |
| Slaughter | Alexander |
| Smith | Thomas Lloyd |
| Sparrow | H ? |
| Springer | M. |
| St Aubyn | Leicester |
| Stevens | Geo. |
| Stoddart | James |
| Stuart | Henry |
| Tattersall | James |
| Thomas | John N. |
| Tresidder | Thos. |
| Trewsen | Alfred |
| Webber | George |
| Weir | J.K. |
| Wythes | T ? |
| Wythes | Joseph |
| Wythes | John |
