The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the

178 LIFE OF SIR ROWLAND HILL. [1849-51
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XIX.
PROGRESS OF REFORM FROM THE BEGINNING OF 1849 TO THE
MIDDLE OF 1851.
HAVING thus carried the general narrative to this important point,
I pause to describe those concurrent proceedings * which could not
be conveniently mentioned in their chronological order, remarking,
however, that the chief improvements effected within the period
have been mentioned as they took place, and that those of my
readers who have little desire to know more on the subject may
easily pass over so much as they please of what follows. For
convenience I resort to classification.
MONEY ORDER DEPARTMENT.
Economy, Self Support.
Various measures of economy were adopted; not, for the most
part, of sufficient importance to be mentioned in detail, though
of considerable value in their aggregate effect. One, however, by
its magnitude, claims distincter record, being the release for other
duties of such a number of clerks as reduced the Money Order
staff, in proportion to its amount of business, by nearly forty per
cent.; an economy effected by the mere simplification of accounts
and modes of procedure. Two others may be mentioned as curious,
the first being a saving of probably about ;8oo a-year through the
substitution for " guard books " of an apparatus invented by Mr.
Walliker, one of the clerks (now Postmaster of Hull), and the
second the saving of ^"700 a year by a mere reduction, and that
not the first, in the size of the letter of advice. By the various
Order Office since
improvements thus introduced into the Money
*
I have thought it advisable to omit the description of some of these proceedings,
which, though important in themselves, yet would have but little
interest for the general reader. ED.