TOTALISATOR EMPLOYEES.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17922, 16 November 1923, Page 2

TOTALISATOR EMPLOYEES.

AN ALLEGATION DENIED. An allegation that girls in Government offices were allowed to leave 'their ordinary work in order employed on the .Canterbury Jockey Club's tota!isator has .been refuted by the heads of the local Departments. A representative of"The Press" investigated the matter yesterday, and found that in seven, offices it was officially denied that any girl had worked on the totalisatorl ' . . > ; •..'-■.". The Chief Postmaster, Mr J. E. Broadfoot, definitely stated that of the twenty-one girls employed in the-Postal-Department, not one had worked for the Jockey Clnb. "The only holiday that they h-ad in race week was Show Day," he stated. "Nobody applied to me. for the permission, which they were bound to ask for, and which, of course, I would not have given." "Well, that's the' first I've heard about, it," said Mi, H. I. Bennett, Superintendent of 'y.egraphs, "and I can say that none of the six girls in this Department ever get time off or are released for such a purpose. It would not be tolerated." ■■ Mr J. McDermott, District Telegraph Engineer, said he was sure that none of the sixty or seventy girls'in the exchange had done 'such a thing. Ho had never heard it suggested before. . A similar answer was given by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mr G. H. Bullard. Some five or six girls are employed in the Lands Office. "None of our girls went out," said the Assistant Lands Registrar, Mr B. Dalrymple, regarding the staff of the Deeds Office. "There-are six typists and drafting cadets here, but none of them handle money in any quantity, and they would be unfitted for a position on the totallsator." ' "I can.give an emphatic denial to that allegation,''.' said Mr A. R. Jordan, District Public Trustee., "Every girl in our office was on duty during race week, except on ShowvDay." . There ia only one girl in the Stamp Duties Office, and the Deputy-Commis-sioner .stated, that the' Department would never give heir leave for Buck a purpose. •