SECRETARY'S WORK.
ORGANISING VETERANS.
COUNCIL MEMBER CRITICAL.
The question whether the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council was justified in permitting its secretary, Mr. N. P. Chapman, to act as, orderly room sergeant of the Veterans' Guard and to perform clerical work in connection with the organisation of this unit in the council's time and with the council's equipment, was asked bv Mr. ,1. Haslaiii at a meeting of the council to-dav _ Mr. Ha-lam said thai he had' been informed by military men that tin- job "' ;l ,". <"'*lerly r. -ergcaiit of a unit ol tins nature was a full-time one Mr. If. F. W. Meiklc said that apparently Mr. Ha-lam had been misinformed, and he thought that the council was setting a g GO d example in allowing members of its'staff to assist m the organisation of military units Jle was gl a< i that the council could do its part in this small way. i his attitude was endorsed bv the chairman, Mr. I. J. Goldstine, while the secretary pointed out that the compiling ot the rolls had entailed a certain" amount of clerical work.
Mr. Goldstine: Apart from this the position will not in future demand any work that cannot be performed by the secretary in his spare time.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 182, 4 August 1939, Page 8
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