THE CLAIMS OF JUSTICE.
In commenting upon the penalty inflicted on the employees of the Post and Telegraph Department who have been convicted of using the office telephones for gambling purposes, we have no wish to minimise the gravity of the offence. These men must have been fully aware of the importance of the responsibilities imposed upon them, and public services could never be efficiently discharged if serious breaches of regulations and of office discipline were wholly condoned. At the same time, there iU'e various. grades of punishment prescribed by the regulations, and we may well ask if the public interest could not be served and departmental efficiency could not be effectually maintained without resorting to the extreme penalty of dismissal. Men who have been in the public service from 15 to 34 years deserve every possible consideration even in such a case as this. We hope that there is ho ground for believing that the superannuation due to these men will be forfeited. For this, in our opinion, would be an extreme measure that could hardly be justified by the circumstances of the case, and would probably produce a strong revulsion of feeling in favour of the offenders,. • I
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 307, 28 December 1929, Page 6
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