THE EDITOR, Sir:HAVING BEEN privileged to be present at the historic Joint Meeting of the House of Representatives and the Senate and on hearing the outpouring of tributes to the Most Honourable Hugh Lawson Shearer of his dedication to the struggles of the working-class, especially the women, I am prompted to, in his memory, to make the following appeal:-
This is an open letter to some of the residents of Beverley Hills.
I have had occasion to witness most mornings a spectacle that would have been a source of much distress to our former Prime Minister.
In the mornings between the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., scores of our women-folk can be seen trudging upward on the steep slopes of Shenstone, Montclair and Beverley drives.
These are women of varying ages (from daughters to grandmothers) who climb these hills daily to devote their energies to the care and well-being of their employers.
It is not uncommon to see them resting at various points in their arduous trudge uphill.
My plea to the employers to whose homes they make their weary ways, is to try to devise a way to relieve them of this draining start to their day, for example, in this era of the cellular phone, with which I am sure all helpers are well-equipped, if these helpers would call when they are at the foot of the hill, some member of the household could drive down and collect them.
Don't do it only because I've asked it of you, but, more so, do it to the memory of Hugh Lawson Shearer.
I am etc,
HOWARD HAMILTON, Q.C.
Public Defender
