A stationmaster who retired in 1955 and who now is over 70 years of age would be getting an additional supplement.
The stationmaster has to live in the station master's house so long as he is stationmaster at that station.
In the old days stationmasters were men of some consequence and were trusted.
Our wayside station has three trains a day, and our stationmaster is most of the time bored to tears.
Just as the schoolmaster or the stationmaster has to live near his work so, also, for the needs of food production, does the agricultural labourer.
You get off at a railway station and often find the whole staff is in the union—stationmaster, booking clerk, platform men and everyone.
We may talk about decentralisation in the abstract, but when things go wrong no stationmaster has any doubt that he will be held responsible.
Apparently these officials had no contact with the stationmaster.
